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Piggybacking an Android Wi-Fi device off your Windows PC’s internet connection

March 16, 2013 Leave a response Shortlink

One of the disadvantages of my Google/Asus Nexus 7 is that it needs a Wi-Fi connection to use. Most of the time this is not a problem since I also have a Huawei mobile WiFi hub from T-Mobile and this [...]

A little more freedom

December 10, 2011 2 Responses Shortlink

A few weeks ago, I decided to address the fact that my Toshiba laptop have next to useless battery life. The arrival of an issue of PC Pro that included a review of lower cost laptops was another spur and [...]

Battery life

October 2, 2011 Leave a response Shortlink

In recent times, I have lugged my Toshiba Equium with me while working away from home; I needed a full screen laptop of my own for attending to various things after work hours so it needs to come with me. [...]

Extending ASUS Eee PC Battery Life Without Changing From Ubuntu 11.04

May 25, 2011 4 Responses Shortlink

It might just be my experience of the things but I do tend to take claims about laptop or netbook battery life with a pinch of salt. After all, I have a Toshiba laptop that only lasts an hour or [...]

Manually adding an entry for Windows 7 to an Ubuntu GRUB2 menu

November 21, 2010 Leave a response Shortlink

A recent endeavour of mine has been to set up a dual-booting arrangement on my Toshiba Equium laptop with Ubuntu 10.10 and Windows 7 on there side by side. However, unlike the same attempt with my Asus Eee PC where [...]

Why go elsewhere when you can get it at Argos?

October 21, 2010 Leave a response Shortlink

It is perhaps a sign of the technological times in which we live that even mainstream stores like Argos stock computing equipment these days. For instance, last weekend, I bought a Seagate Expansion 2 GB external hard drive in there [...]