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One of the guys at work had one. 3d is a nice gimmick, but nothing special, but apparently the battery life is awful. He was getting 6 hours out of it. So he sent it back.

It'll be interesting. Amazon have actually forked Android, so it will not be totally compatible with Google backed devices, from what I've read, they've forked from prior to 2.2 kernel. Having said that, you can bet that within 10 minutes of them hitting the shelves, someone will have vanilla...

Again, that just seems to be an Network Attached Enclosure. Yes it can take two drives, but it only mirrors them. As with the WD one above they're like USB hard drive enclosures, just attached to the network instead. Ideally you want something that has the ability to take 3+ drives and RAID...

Seems to want to charge 19.99, think they might have twigged :-) only applies the discount now if you put a game on.

This might help as well http://support.microsoft.com/kb/154780

I have a Drobo. Great little device. Decent support as well. I had the external PSU brick die on me, which took out the unit as well, they replaced it within a week. I have the older version with the seperate DrobopShare, but they've now integrated it into one unit. They don't use real RAID...

What an absolute bust :-( Didn't even see the sky, let alone the moon.

It starts earlier than that, It'll be in totality from when it rises at about 9:15 until about just after 10pm, but doesn't fully exit eclipse until about midnight. If you're not able to see it directly, but are at a computer, Slooh are doing a free live feed from around the world. They've...

Well, that's true :-) Needs must and all that though.

Not any more. The current android versions use hardware decoding.

As there's a lunar eclipse tomorrow (15 June) I thought it's be a good opportunity to break out my tripod and give my new 1.4x teleconvertor a shot. Anyone tried getting shots of a lunar eclipse before? I'm especially interested in getting it in its transition from full eclipse to none (as...

Has anyone tried one of the new Class 10 32GB SDHC cards? I've been thinking of getting one, but some stuff I read actually says I'd be better off using a class 6 or even a class 4 in my phone due to the way the cards read. Apparantly its something to do with the class 10 cards are designed...

I bought a standard Gorillapod and found it a bit lacking for my 450D, it just seemed like it was just right on the very edge of what the gorillapod would take even with only my 50mm on it. I then got a SLR-Zoom Gorillapod, and that thing is a monster, It will hold my 450D with my Tamron 70-300...

I actually really like the bokeh you get off of some mirror shots, it does seem to be very dependant on the type of shot. I might grab the one off ebay and if I don't like it I can always put it back up there.

I've been thinking of getting one of these for lunar photography. Got my eye on a Tamron SP/500 on ebay, meant to be one of the better ones. It seems that you can get good pictures out of them as long as you persevere, but you have to do everything on manual.

LED is a bit of a marketing gimmick. Actual panel wise they are basically the same as one advertised as a LCD, the only difference is how they are backlit. Anything advertised as LCD will generally have a CFL light source behind it (usually a couple of horizontal tubes) and a diffuser to make...

Pretty much any monitor will display "Full HD" output from an Xbox via a VGA lead. In PC monitor terms 1080p is absolutely nothing at all. it's only 1920*1080, I had CRT monitors capable to displaying higher resolutions 5+ years ago. In fact if it's being sold as a monitor, but can only do a...

You can, but with HTC phones that are running SenseUI, sense will continue to run underneath even though you aren't using it. Better to flash another ROM, also helps getting rid of all the operaator crap that gets installed.

Handy. For comparisson, here's the Galaxy Ace and the Desire HD. The Desire is far superior in spec.

I dunno where you got your information on the Desire HD, but so much of it is wrong. The Desire HD runs a 1 GHz Qualcomm MSM 8255 Scorpion (Snapdragon) with an Adreno 205 GPU (in fact no HTC Android handsets run the MSM7625). It comes with Android 2.2 (Froyo) on it but will upgrade to Android...

Review of it. http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/748-Duke-Nukem-Forever

Another good ROM to use is Modaco. His ROMs are pretty much stock, but streamlined. Much faster.

Ahh, reminds me of the time that I spent 12 hours trying to recover an Exchange server only to eventually realise that the latest backup that I was trying to restore from was actually taken in the middle of the message store corrupting itself :-( On the raid side, hot spare FTW :-)

Pretty much. I think there are replacements out there for most of the stuff though. Sense was pretty good when Android was on 2.1 as the stock UI was a bit pony. Since 2.2 though it's been vastly improved. I used to run a rip-off of a Desire ROM on my Nexus One because I found Sense slicker...

I don't think that you can use Unrevoked for the Incredible S yet. HTC have been a bit of a bunch of t***s with locked bootloaders recently (though apparantly they have given that up for all the new phones now). You can root the Incredible, but it's not a simple 1-click job like the Desire.

Unrevoked takes 10 minutes at the most and is fully automatic. I've done a shed load of them with no issues whatsoever. Load up the program, plug in the phone, switch on USB debugging on the phone and it does it all for you. As for ROMs, if you don't mind losing SenseUI, then CyanogenMod7 is...

Until a delivery driver ignores the maximum height warning and runs a lorry into your suspended fibre run..... Actually happened to my workplace about 10 years ago, luckily it was run with plenty of slack. In the real world I highly doubt that you would put 10G in. A fibre run, yes, and that...

Really? What a load of toss.

I assume TalkTalk is ADSL. The old BT unit should work, but you would have to configure it up with the login details for your TalkTalk line.

I used MediaMonkey for sorting and syncing my albums it's pretty good, over the last year or so I have used to to totally re-name and re-tag my entire collection plus add album art. But the WinAmp player itself on Android is pretty good.