Technology

In an age where everyone is security conscious, there’s no better way of keeping your data secure than to carry it with you. For a long time there have been options such as PortableApps which allows you to install your software onto a USB stick, and then take it with […]

Asus VivoStick TS10

May 19, 2017 in Technology tagged Asus / Atom x5 / Gadget / HDMI / Intel Compute Stick / Kindle Fire TV stick / media stick / Technology / Vivostick by Jonathan Rudderham

I’ve been wanting to get one of these boxes for some months now, but there are so many to chose from that it’s been too difficult to pick the right one. They all seem to have roughly similar specs, do roughly the same thing, and have very similar sounding names. […]

Q1 Master

August 22, 2016 in Technology tagged Android / Gadgets / Media Box / MP4 / Q1 Master / Tech by Jonathan Rudderham

Asus t300chi

March 30, 2016 in Reviews / Technology tagged Asus / laptop 2-in-1 / t300chi / Technology by Jonathan Rudderham

ASUS X205TA 11.6 inch Laptop Notebook (Intel Atom Z3735F 1.33 GHz, 2 GB RAM, Integrated Graphics, Windows 8.1 with Free Windows 10 Upgrade) – Blue I bought this primarily for the “up to 12 hours” battery life. So long as you know what you’re buying, the Asus X205TA is a […]

Asus X205TA netbook

December 18, 2015 in Reviews / Technology tagged Asus / Gadget / Laptop / Netbook / Technology by Jonathan Rudderham

I can’t believe the capabilities of a tablet this size. I’ve been using various Android/Apple tablets for some time, but they’ve always been a bit of a compromise for me. Although they have plenty of good apps, they’ve always been an additional device and never my main device because all […]

Linx 7 tablet

December 6, 2014 in Reviews / Technology tagged Gadget / Linx / Tablet / Windows by Jonathan Rudderham

Acer DA1 24 inch Touchscreen All-in-One PC (Nvidia T33 1.6GHz, 1GB RAM, 16GB SSD, Wi-Fi, Camera, Integrated Graphics, Android 4.1.2) I almost didn’t buy this device because I couldn’t find any reference to “DA1” anywhere either on Acer’s website, or elsewhere except on a couple of mail order catalogue websites […]

Acer DA241HL AIO

November 17, 2014 in Reviews / Technology tagged Acer / AIO / All-in-one / Gadget / Technology by Jonathan Rudderham

Acer Iconia W4-820

August 3, 2014 in Reviews / Technology tagged Acer / Gadget / Tablet / Technology / W4-820 / Windows by Jonathan Rudderham

Before smartphones were quite so, well, smart, there was the PDA. The Personal Digital Assistant, often mocked as a digital filofax, was the most pocketable of mobile computing platforms before the advent of Smartphones. Many top manufacturers had their own range. While HP expanded the Jornada brand, Dell’s range was […]

The Writer’s Toolkit, part 2 : The Age before Smartphones

May 23, 2014 in Hardware / Mobile / Technology / Writing tagged Axim / Keyboard / Mobile Computing / novel writing / PDA by Jonathan Rudderham

Before the tablet there was the netbook. Before the netbook there was the Handheld PC, epitomised as it was by the HP Jornada range. Beginning life as the HP Jornada 680 in 1998, this clamshell portable computer went through a number of slight modifications before its final incarnation, the 728, […]

The Writer’s Toolkit : Yesterday’s Ultimate Mobile Computing

May 22, 2014 in Hardware / Mobile / Technology / Writing tagged Handheld PC / Jornada / Keyboard / Mobile Computing by Jonathan Rudderham

ASUS S200E 11.6-inch VivoBook Touchscreen Laptop (Intel Core i3 3217U 1.8GHz, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD, LAN, WLAN, Webcam, BT, Integrated Graphics, Windows 8) Until the Vivobook, I’ve been running Windows XP – primarily because I’ve enjoyed using my netbooks, but also because Vista and Windows 7’s bloat meant that I […]

Asus Vivobook S200E

December 19, 2012 in Reviews / Technology tagged Asus / Gadget / Laptop / S200E / Technology / Vivobook by Jonathan Rudderham

In my seemingly never-ending quest to write on my iPad, I recently began investigating Storyist for iPad. There are many text document apps for the iPad and my favourite “quick writing” app has been Writings. That offers a pleasing but basic interface and is able to keep documents together (such […]