Archive for the ‘Gadgets’ Category
New Mountain Bike
I finally convinced my wife that I need (well wanted really) a new mountain bike and today I took delivery of the Trek 4300 Disc 2006 model Managed to fall off it on the maiden voyage but I thought it best to get that out that way before I tackle to Bracknell Woods [...]
In: Gadgets · Tagged with: mountain bike
Cheap and Cheerful MP3 Player
My six year old MP3 player just isn’t up to the job anymore and I have been looking for an alternative, on and off, over that last few weeks. Ideally I would have liked a portable music player that supported Ogg Vorbis but as my home cinema isn’t Ogg Vorbis compatible I decided to standardize [...]
In: Gadgets · Tagged with: cheep, mp3
‘ere ear!
I picked up a pair of new headphones yesterday. I decided on the Sony MDR-EX71SL headphones as all the reviews I have read have been very positive, and after listening to a few of my favourite albums with them, I am also very impressed with their performance.
Due to their earbud design nearly all background noise [...]
Pocket Entertainment
I haven’t done much work on Stanley in the last few days because I rediscovered ScummVM and started playing ”Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders” for the first time in years ScummVM is a program which allows you to run certain classic graphical point-and-click adventure games, provided you already have their data files, [...]
