Jan 26, 2009

We had a need to replace a DSL modem at a friend’s home just recently. During the last year, they had upgraded their connection from ordinary ADSL to what’s called “Fast ADSL”, which gives them an improvement in speed – in their case, from 256 to 8192kbps. Their old modem didn’t support this faster speed and its wireless...

Jan 13, 2009

If you’re a guy and you plan on shaving your head, you don’t have a lot of choices. You can head to a hairdresser or barber and pay anywhere between eight and twenty dollars for someone to come along with a buzzer and take as much of your hair off in one go as humanly possible. You could join the army. That would be somewhat effective provided you...

Jan 12, 2009

Happy New Mouse! Well, it’s a brand new year, a whole new working year ahead of us, and what better way than to start the year with some new hardware? Well, how about just a little bit of new hardware, anyway? In my hand I have the new Microsoft Explorer Mini Mouse. It doesn’t go exploring in caves or on the beaches, and I’m not too sure that...

Jan 12, 2009

We’re back in Studio A this week with a brand new Gadget Grill live from Sydney’s 88.1 2RDJ station and this week we looked at the mystical and ridiculously overly complicated world that is High-Definition TV. We’re talking HDReady, HD, FullHD, and what the whole Digital TV thing that’s coming up really means. This was one of the biggest...