Friday, July 4th, 2008
Melmoth's keen websense tingled a few weeks back and he pointed me towards the Gelaskins website, which sells 'artist-designed removable skins' for various iPods, portable computers, and gaming devices.
I browsed through the iPod Touch section of the Gelaskin range, which offers a large variety of different skins. I quite ...
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Friday, June 13th, 2008
It has been a couple of weeks since I got my new Denon AH-C551 headphones, and I have had a good opportunity to test them in a variety of conditions. Not everything is good, but there are far more positive aspects to them than negative. First, the negative ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
I must have little ears. Or, at least, ear-holes. Nearly all the in-ear headphones I've bought myself for years have never fit properly and kept on falling out. I suppose I should have taken the hint and stopped buying in-ear headphones, but that one pair I bought ...
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
I found a new bit of functionality on my iPod Touch at the weekend. I was turning on the wireless connection so that I could check my e-mail without needing to power-up my desktop machine. To save power, I keep wireless turned off until I need it, and ...
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Saturday, May 10th, 2008
My iPod Touch's battery lasted me the whole of the four-day working week between recharges. Okay, so Friday is generally a half-day, but it's a lopsided half with a longer morning than afternoon, so I tend to get home only a couple of hours earlier than normal.
I hadn't intended ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
I have another headache. Or maybe it's the same one from yesterday evening, subdued temporarily by some paracetamol and rearing it's ugly head again. I don't know why, but my headaches simply won't go away without taking some pills. No matter how quiet or relaxed I make ...
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Saturday, April 5th, 2008
I will listen to music in different ways. Having my iPod plugged in to my hi-fi system allows me to have my whole collection at my fingertips, and I take advantage of that by putting the iPod on random album shuffle. I also use my multi-CD player so ...
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