Like most new OS's from MS. It looks to be coming together as we move towards the first large service pack. (8.1)
http://www.neowin.net/news/windows-8-core-apps-updated
Friday, 31 May 2013
Sky Android apps are back on the market after being hacked.
After a short break. They are back, but not like this any more:
Wednesday, 29 May 2013
BT Openreach Tweaks Unbundled LLU Phone Line Prices for UK ISPs
Good news for the bigger ISP's with MPF wanting to get their customer base off SMPF circuits.
http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2013/05/bt-openreach-tweaks-unbundled-llu-prices-for-uk-isps.html
http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2013/05/bt-openreach-tweaks-unbundled-llu-prices-for-uk-isps.html
Monday, 27 May 2013
Sunday, 26 May 2013
Saturday, 25 May 2013
Holiday preparations - The battery pack.
I'm off to Bodrum ,Turkey this summer.
So I don't intend on using my data plan much if at all as Vodafone UK leaves Turkey out of its Vodafone passport international roaming. This leans i'd had to take out a small loan in order to use it. My advise to anyone in the same situation. Get a 30 day Three sim and use their roaming service which covers Turkey...Not cheap but you'll likely spend around £60 on average with a good amount of usage.
Aside from the roaming issues. The next battle is battery. I think I'll end up taking the Lumia 920 (coming back from Nokia for the 2nd time as I've stopped sending it to Phones4u) & the Samsung Galaxy S4.
Here maps is supposed to be good offline so we'll see vs Google maps.
Because of this I have invested in a battery pack as I was impressed with my old Iphone 4s battery case pack. This one has 12000mAh so should last the distance for a few days.. It also has a flash-light that may be handy at night.
Link to purchase on Amazon:
HP ProLiant G7 N54L 2.2GHz MicroServer deal on @ eBuyer
eBuyer has their next HP micro server promotion up. Its a slight upgrade over what I think was the N40L (Could be N45L). The price is currently £209 with a £100 cashback (you'll be waiting a month or so for this).
The specs are pretty basic, but this is ideal for my intended purpose of it being a NAS box to share all my videos and music across multiple devices. I haven't bought any upgrades for it as of yet. I want to experiment with it first as it'll be my first NAS box. The 250GB hard disk should suffice for the mean time until I am ready to use it properly. Its interesting to see what people have done in terms of running the OS off a flash drive on the internal USB port or their set-ups with RAID arrays.
I'll also need some sort of Dynamic DNS service as I'm on a residential Sky broadband line with a dynamic IP. Free ones can be had from www.no-ip.biz, but there is also dyndns.com which is $25 a year. Then again with the O2 purchase, Sky has been hinting at rolling out a static IP address to some customers. My guess is probably at an extra cost which is fair enough as it isn't a business service I guess.
Other concerns are noise. I want it to be dead quiet as its going to sit in the living room. I recently upgraded my Shuttles graphics card (a whole different beast) and it's noticeably louder these days.
http://www.freenas.org/ is looking like the OS of choice from what my colleague suggested.
From what the site says it looks pretty versatile which is what I need running a variety of OS's in my household.
I've not used a Windows server in a long while now, but it might be worth a download of the trail version to have a look. I've heard some good things about Windows Server 2012.
Link to the product is here:
http://www.ebuyer.com/430446-proliant-microserver-turion-2-2-2gb-250gb-nhpl-sata-lff-in-704941-421
The specs are pretty basic, but this is ideal for my intended purpose of it being a NAS box to share all my videos and music across multiple devices. I haven't bought any upgrades for it as of yet. I want to experiment with it first as it'll be my first NAS box. The 250GB hard disk should suffice for the mean time until I am ready to use it properly. Its interesting to see what people have done in terms of running the OS off a flash drive on the internal USB port or their set-ups with RAID arrays.
I'll also need some sort of Dynamic DNS service as I'm on a residential Sky broadband line with a dynamic IP. Free ones can be had from www.no-ip.biz, but there is also dyndns.com which is $25 a year. Then again with the O2 purchase, Sky has been hinting at rolling out a static IP address to some customers. My guess is probably at an extra cost which is fair enough as it isn't a business service I guess.
Other concerns are noise. I want it to be dead quiet as its going to sit in the living room. I recently upgraded my Shuttles graphics card (a whole different beast) and it's noticeably louder these days.
http://www.freenas.org/ is looking like the OS of choice from what my colleague suggested.
From what the site says it looks pretty versatile which is what I need running a variety of OS's in my household.
I've not used a Windows server in a long while now, but it might be worth a download of the trail version to have a look. I've heard some good things about Windows Server 2012.
Link to the product is here:
http://www.ebuyer.com/430446-proliant-microserver-turion-2-2-2gb-250gb-nhpl-sata-lff-in-704941-421
Friday, 24 May 2013
Microsoft's Xbox doesn't infringe Motorola patents, court rules- The Inquirer
Moto and Google were probably hoping for some big money here....
Microsoft's Xbox doesn't infringe Motorola patents, court rules- The Inquirer
Microsoft's Xbox doesn't infringe Motorola patents, court rules- The Inquirer
Thursday, 23 May 2013
Wednesday, 22 May 2013
Tuesday, 21 May 2013
Xbox OneGuide brings HDMI in/out, overlays for live TV
I hope they have thought more international with this and companies like Sky will be on-board.
http://www.engadget.com/2013/05/21/xbox-one-hdmi-passthrough/
http://www.engadget.com/2013/05/21/xbox-one-hdmi-passthrough/
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