Review

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Its Magic!

This entry was posted in Gadgets Review Uncategorized on March 4, 2021 by HAL

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 […]

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Ultramon update

This entry was posted in Review Software and tagged Ultramon on December 27, 2012 by HAL

Ultramon gets an update to 3.2.2 – with a couple of fixes.  You can get the update here   New in this release Support for Windows 8 final version (RTM release): the following issues have been fixed: the window buttons match the look of the native buttons Smart Taskbar is disabled by default due to the […]

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Christmas Tech

This entry was posted in Gadgets Hardware Review and tagged Gear4 Houseparty View on December 25, 2012 by HAL

Santa brought a useful little gift for the Ipad2 or 3. A stand with speakers from  Gear4  called the Houseparty View which you can get here. Its a very handy platform for changing the ipad and viewing the unit at the time. The main uses so far have been Youtube and skype as it means […]

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Data transfer faster than a speeding bullet

This entry was posted in Review Software Tips and tagged FastSCP Winscp on December 21, 2012 by HAL

Well not quite ! As part of a migration of virtual machines from one esxi 5 server to another I had a chance to compare the performance of the esx client – winscp and fastscp. The differences were astounding as the inbuilt download and the winscp downloads were quite pedestrian. The fastscp was almost a […]

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Winzip 17 – whats new ?

This entry was posted in Review Software Tips and tagged Winzip on November 16, 2012 by HAL

I got an email announcing the new release of Winzip – version 17. Having used the product back from its inception and its initial battle to overcome the likes of PKzip – it gets harder to remember what changes have appeared in each incarnation. According to Winzip’s blurb the changes are :- . NEW! Zip […]

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Seriously – it is a mouse !

This entry was posted in Gadgets Hardware Review and tagged Microsoft Wireless Arc Touch Mouse on November 14, 2012 by HAL

The Microsoft Wireless Arc Touch doesn’t look like your fathers mouse. Its a departure from the “full body” mouse that we have gotten used to in the various sizes from desktop to ultra portable. It actually looks more like a mobile phone and the means on switching on and off involves bending the lower part […]

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Scrolling, Scrolling, Scrolling down the River?

This entry was posted in Gadgets Review and tagged Kensington Orbit Trackball with scroll ring on November 13, 2012 by HAL

Apologies to Tina Turner for rearranging the words of her song “Rolling on a river” I have used trackballs rather than mice for the last number of years to suit a multi screen (6 way) setup with Input Director controlling 3 machines. This gives me the ability to manage and monitor multiple systems whilst also […]

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Bridging the gap

This entry was posted in Hardware Review on November 8, 2012 by HAL

A client required a link between two locations to allow disaster recovery planning to create off site copies of  virtual machines and dat. However the preferred fibre optic option was not possible and the client required a higher bandwidth that conventional fibre to cabinet offerings such as BT Infinity. Enter a wireless bridge – in […]

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