Hexbugs and Bristlebots
Hexbugs are little battery powered plastic bugs which scuttle along on their flexible plastic legs, driven along by a small internal vibrating motor. You can pick up an individual Hexbug quite cheaply from retailers such […]
Technology
Is your Smart TV spying on you?
Back in late 2013 a story hit the news that LG Smart televisions could be spying on their owners. I wrote the piece below about this explaining how LG were gathing veiwing and other information […]
Not All Cheap Android Phones Are Created Equal
I wrote the following piece back in November 2013. Since then I have become even more suspicious of the value of deals offered by Mighty Deals. I received an email from Mighty Deals last night […]
Rufus – Creating bootable USB drives from ISO images
Have you ever downloaded software as an ISO image and needed to burn it to a CD or DVD to be able to install it? ISO files are complete images of a CD or DVD […]
Unlocking the secret hidden picture on your Android phone or tablet
The Android operating system that comes on many mobile phones and tablet computers has a hidden http://yertiz.co.uk/unlocking-secret-hidden-picture-android-phone-tablet/picture embedded by the programmers at Google. If you have a phone or tablet that runs on Android on […]
How to check what internet speeds you should be getting on your phone line.
Do you know what speed you should expect to be getting on your internet connection? Is your internet slower than you were led to expect when you signed up? It happens to many of us, […]
Buying batteries, are Duracell worth the premium price?
Here in the UK Duracell are known for their Duracell Bunny television adverts. These show the Duracell Bunny outlasting other toys powered by zinc batteries. Other Duracell adverts focus on how many sets of zinc […]
Scamming a scammer
I felt I just had to share the YouTube video below. It involves one of those unsolicited calls saying your computer is infected. When these scammers called computer software expert Noah Magram of Sourcefire he […]
How I dealt with one of those “Hello, I am calling from Windows” calls
Here is something I wrote in 2013 about how I dealt with one of those scam phone calls that tell you they have spotted something wrong with your computer. Unfortunately these nasty little con artists […]
Socket covers, could they be more dangerous than empty electric sockets?
The web site FatallyFlawed suggests that socket covers may actually be dangerous. Having reviewed the evidence I am inclined to agree. Below are three videos made by FatallyFlawed showing the evidence. The videos show how […]