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Sunday, July 4th, 2010
Not a happy iPhone 4 customer
So I went to the Apple Genius Bar today with my iPhone 4 issues. It was a fairly unsatisfactory experience, especially compared to when I took my iPhone 3G back when dust* started appearing on the screen and they replaced it without question.
Before my Genius Bar appointment I compared the performance of my iPhone 4 with [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Toys, Uncategorized by andy
Friday, July 2nd, 2010
Is my iPhone 4 faulty or is Apple’s PR complete bollocks ?
Apple have come out with a formal response to the alleged iPhone 4 reception issues.
And of course John Gruber has come up with a brilliant translation of it.
Here is my take on it as an iPhone 4 owner.
I’d been hoping (and really expected) that there was going to be a real fix to this. As [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Toys, Uncategorized by andy
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
iPeng native, a Squeezebox remote app for the iPhone/Touch
Squeezebox owners who also own iPhones or iPod Touches have been patiently awaiting the arrival of native apps to control their Squeezeboxes. The iPhone was an obvious candidate as a remote control for the Squeezebox and the iPeng web based remote interface has been available for quite some time.
While the iPeng web remote was very [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Toys by andy
Saturday, May 17th, 2008
Logitech Squeezebox Duet Review – part 2
This is the second part of my review of of the Squeezebox Duet, though all of this part focuses on the Controller part of the package. Part 1 is here.
No Comments » - Posted in Toys by andy
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Logitech Squeezebox Duet Review – part 1
I’ve had an MP3 player for my car since I bought my first empeg back in 1999. The empeg is an absolutely brilliant MP3 player, but I’ve never had anything that compared for the the home.
I own a bunch of Rio Receivers, which were designed by the same team as the empeg, but the software [...]
7 Comments » - Posted in Toys by andy
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
Review of i-mate Momento 100 photo frame
I had hoped to give my parents a Wifi enabled digital photo frame for Christmas. After researching various Wifi frames, I settled on the i-mate Momento 10 inch one.
14 Comments » - Posted in Toys by andy
Monday, January 8th, 2007
Scooby owners, don’t assume that the knocking noise is piston slap…
Since the end of last summer my Subaru Impreza 2000 Turbo had the problem that it sounded like a diesel taxi when the engine was cold.
The sound was a real worry when it first started, it sounds rattly and very diesel like. Revving above 3,000 rpm made it go away and after the engine had [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Cars by andy
Friday, December 1st, 2006
“Every day is a school day”
Today’s lesson was on Microsoft SQL Server. I was struggling to debug a problem inside a stored procedure that buried deep with a nested set of other stored procedures. I was getting frustrated and thought to myself “it would be so nice if I could dump stuff to the Windows Event Log from within this stored procedure”.
No Comments » - Posted in Programming by andy
Friday, August 11th, 2006
Goodbye to the 1980s
I did two momentous things today. I unplugged our video recorder and CD player.
No Comments » - Posted in Technology by andy
Friday, January 20th, 2006
Don’t get too attached to gacutil.exe
If you have ever got involved with putting .NET assemblies into the GAC (Global Assembly Cache), then you will have come across gacutil.exe
There is a problem with gacutil.exe, it isn’t part of the .NET framework and therefore isn’t installed on machines that have had the framework installed on. It is actually part of .NET SDK [...]