Sometimes it’s the things you don’t notice which are the most valuable. I realised this week that I haven’t rebooted our TP-Link WR740N broadband modem since we got it over 6mths ago. Now, obviously, that is how modems are supposed to work but over the past 8 years every single modem from Eircom and Vodafone [...]
I’ve just moved this blog over to a new host so I held off on creating new posts until the move was complete. Here’s a selection of the things that have delighted me over the past 2 weeks and which I heartily recommend: Fast 50′s — the fast 50mm lens is a favourite among most [...]
I won’t lie. One of the reasons for buying a new iPad was so that when we’re away in Kerry I could backup the images, show them off to family and hopefully get a head start on editing them. I’d hoped PhotoSmith would be the answer but version 1 left me a bit cold: yes, [...]
Or: how to do in 2.5hrs and €20 what a 10 year-old Indonesian child could do in 20mins for €0.50 — but you get a much greater sense of satisfaction and a lot less exploitation. My new camera bag has quite generous-sized compartments which I’d occasionally like to double up to hold two smaller lens. [...]
Many moons ago, I used to hang out on The Business of Software forum and one question kept coming up again and again: “How can I stop pirates stealing my software?”. Software has a long history of using licence codes, dongles, licensing servers, online registration, phoning-home activation, obfuscation and many other security techniques to ensure [...]