June 2007 Blog Posts
I bought an Epson Perfection V100 Scanner last week.
I needed to scan some documents that I wanted to take travelling with us. That was my main motivation. But its been on my mind to get one for a while now. Scanners are just plain useful. The big project I want to do is scan all my 35mm slides and negatives but I've been humming and hahing about what's the best scanner to get for a couple of years. I mean I only ever want to scan all that film I have once and that's it. Flatbed scanners like the Epson V700 seem...
I mentioned before that I bought a Samsung YP-TP mp3 player. I just want to say I've been very impressed with this device. It's very easy to use and the battery lasts a long time. I just upgraded to the v1.6 firmware and it now supports bookmarks. This is perfect for the lectures I listen to from The Teaching Company.
Great little device and its now come down to £105 on Amazon UK.
There are some negatives. The file transfer is a bit slow. My daughter did manage to crash it once but I've never done it. I wish it could play...
I'm off doing some travelling soon so I finally bought a photo storage solution - a Hyperdrive Space direct from their Hypershop. I bought the version without a hard disk so I could whack my wife's old harddisk into it. It's only 40Gb but it's good enough for now. The shipping added about £15 and then there was another £25 for duty and customs clearance. Ouch!
But I quickly got it working. It does exactly what is says on the tin. I like it. Simple and fast. I haven't really had any chance to use it in earnest but I'm confident...
I've been flirting with A2DP for the last few months and have generally decided its a bad idea.
The main motivation was that my wife wanted to listen to podcasts and audio books in the kitchen. First, I got some A2DP speakers (from the Orange shop) and a Bluetooth USB stick. I got the old "Amazon 3rd party not in stock" trick which got me a USB Bluetooth 1.1 stick that I didn't want. Wasn't impressed with the usability of the BlueSoleil software but it worked as long as the laptop was in line of sight of the speakers.
I bought another...