In recent years, Sony has acquired a reputation for marring its usually cute products with at least one cripplingly stupid design flaw. Most notoriously this included an audio player which wouldn’t play MP3 files.
The most common fault with Sony’s products is the inclusion of a MemoryStick slot of some form (there seem to be [...]
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Sony sees sense over SD
September 20th, 2005 · No Comments · Computers, Gadgets
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DRM/Activation Experiences
September 8th, 2005 · 2 Comments · Gadgets, Miscellaneous software
Following the previous post, and in the spirit of full disclosure, a few notes on my own experiences of software activation and DRM.
I’ve never yet had problems with product activation (but I’m grateful to Jeff Duntemann for his advice not to upgrade to the latest Acrobat version - I too remain happy with version 4.0).
I [...]
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Another brick on the floor
August 13th, 2005 · No Comments · Gadgets
My home office room is modest in size, and that’s being generous. Yet it contains an amazing 17 devices/appliances currently plugged into mains electrical outlets, and several more which are currently disconnected.
Of these 17, more than half are fed through some kind of external DC adapter, or ‘power brick’. When I travel, several [...]
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Irony is alive and well in software development
July 18th, 2005 · No Comments · Gadgets, Miscellaneous software
Just installed the latest update to Raxco’s excellent PerfectDisk defragger utility. The list of changes includes this gem:
Corrected a bug in the boot time defragmentation. PerfectDisk records the current time on shutdown and compares it to the system time at reboot. On Windows XP, Service Pack 2, the system time at reboot can be earlier [...]
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