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The fifth adventure in series seven of Big Finish‘s Companion Chronicles range does what it says on the tin and it sees the Return of the Rocket Men.  This time they’re encountered by Steven (Peter Purves) with the first Doctor and Dodo.  The villain of the Rocket Men is this […]

CC7.05 Return of the Rocket Men

 in Big Finish Audios / Character Building / Doctor Who / Reviews / The Companion Chronicles  tagged Big Finish / Doctor Who / Dodo / Matt Fitton / Nicholas Briggs / Peter Purves / Steven / The First Doctor / Tim Treloar by
At first glance, the catchily-named A10JQ would seem to be the ultimate mobile writer’s tool from the past.  In the days when 5″ smartphones were hideously expensive and tablets hadn’t yet become mainstream, the humble little A10JQ came onto the market. Originally called the “Mobile Internet Device”, it was indeed […]

The Writer’s Toolkit, part 3 : A10JQ

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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

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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

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