Recently as part of building renovations I wanted to replace some older Devolo Ethernet over power adapters and consolidate some wireless access points from various suppliers into something more standard and manageable. Enter the Magic Wifi 2 Next multiroom kit from Devolo. This ticked both boxes for wired connections and wireless in the one set […]
As more and more video calls and meetings are taking place I had to replace my trusty Trust webcam which was donated to a family member for study purposes. My search for a replacement led me to the Logitech C920 and so far its proven to be a great upgrade. The quality and light levels […]
Having recently jumped from an Iphone 6 Plus to an Iphone 12 Pro (now that’s what I call longevity) – I struck me during several phone calls on speaker phone that the volume of the speaker seemed diminished and that with background noise made for a less than stellar performance. Reaching for my air pods […]
Looking back over 2020 I realise that I’ve been pretty quiet as posts go and want to take the opportunity to look forward to 2021 and the direction that is heading. As probably most people working in support found 2020 was pretty busy as the rush to Working From Home (WFH) became a stampede. As […]
Longevity. Not something I heard a lot about from developers that used to meet at those events we used to call “face to face meetings” – pre Covid 19. When I started coding in the mid 80’s – an application had no real shelf life. If it was fit for purpose – it kept on […]
As a long time fan of the Raspberry Pi platform I recently decided to replace an aging original Pi for a project I have in mind. So imagine my delight when I spotted the Pi 400 – its a Pi in a keyboard !! Whoever thought of that – pat yourself on the back. Immediately […]
While preparing an new client laptop I came across the situation where exporting the favourites from Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 10 failed. Given I’d done this many times – the surprise was when “Some settings were not exported successfully” was displayed. In addition the file that I had specified wasn’t empty as I might […]
While getting tooling set up for a Dart server side app – it was a surprise to receive an error when creating the first piece of the application with an aqueduct create first_project command. The surprise was that everything in the setup and installation of Dart in Visual Studio Code and the installation of Chocolatey […]
