Sep 24, 2009
Here at the Gadget Grill we have a computer or two. Or three or four or … yes, a more than ample sufficiency, truth be told. And of course, we felt a need to upgrade at least a couple of these to the all new, bright and shiny Windows 7, and so this has now been accomplished… but not without a little bit of pain. Both of the systems that we wanted to...
Jul 4, 2009
As noted in our earlier article, PMA at Sydney’s Exhibition Centre in Darling Harbour was way better than the previous iteration of the photography exhibition held at the same location about three years ago, and it was also way better than the recent CeBit also held at the same location. The Good. PMA had some great toys to look at and play with, and from...
Jun 3, 2009
When we last saw our hero, the Power Monkey, he had successfully charged the iPhone a couple of times, and also had successfully been recharged through the use of the solar charger in 2RDJ’s studio A. I can recall seeing that the charge light on the battery unit, originally glowing red, had changed to green. The LCD indicators were also displaying five...
May 27, 2009
Recently I was privileged to have been invited to the Sydney media launch of the Power Monkey range of products. Briefly, Power Monkey manufacture a range of rechargeable portable power sources for our everyday digital devices. The basic idea is that you charge up your Power Monkey, and you then use that as a power source for your device. This means that, in...
Mar 2, 2009
While researching home studio recording options, I happened across a suite of tools that comes all neatly packaged in a custom Linux distribution: 64 Studio. While I am of the belief that there is no such thing as a one-size-fits-all solution, 64 Studio provides a very comprehensive suite of home studio tools that should be more than adequate for most purposes...
Feb 27, 2009
A long time ago, in a land not so far away, the thought of taking your band into a recording studio was a big deal. A really big deal. Studio resources were thin on the ground, and expensive to use: you needed to pay for the resources, and the engineer, and then there needed to be mixdowns, mastering, and a lot of other stuff too. While most of that still holds...