hardware
iPhone water damage
Water damage to iPhones (and any electronics for that matter) can be fatal, but there is a possibility of reviving life into the device. Let me show you how. I had a bit of an accident a few weeks ago. I was cleaning the screen of my GPS unit and it fell into the sink – […]
Should I defrag my SSD?
Solid State Drives (SSDs) are awesome. They perform much faster, use less power and are generally physically smaller than conventional hard drives. But should you defrag them like normal hard drives? Simple answer no. SSDs have no moving parts. The purpose of a defrag is to to arrange/move the data on the drive so the […]
Garmin GPS create your own custom voices
Garmin have released software called ‘Garmin Voice’ which allows you to program your own voice commands into your GPS. What better than using the preprogrammed voices than using your own. Thumbs up to Garmin for this initiative! Garmin say the process should onlytake about 30 mins to programme all the phrases into you PC and […]
Build me a PC part 2
In part 1 of this ‘project’ I described what we wanted to build, a rough budget and what sort of hardware we’d be looking at for the PC that I was building for a friend. This post I will tell you what we ended up with – Amazing how much things change and how budget […]
Build me a PC part 1
One of my friends wanted me to build a PC from scratch, with the parts HE wanted (rather than a pre built one). So I thought ‘lets blog it from the very beginning to the end’. The challenge – a decent PC (not for gaming but one with a bit of grunt and the ability […]