So my Oneplus 5 arrive a few days back, I was flying back from Italy and by chance our flight was delayed an hour and arrive back to the UK at 11:55 PM, I tuned my phone on and was greeted with a tweet say “remember to set your alarms for 12 midnight” …. online shopping is too easy in this day and age, by the time I’d walked from the plane to security I had bagged myself a Midnight Black oneplus 5 8GB RAM 128GB phone for £499. A…
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Being a huge fan of all things small and configurable (think Raspberry Pi, Arduino) I found myself in the market for a VPN service, the internet can be a bad place after all and thats just starting with your broadband provider :P. I had played with DD-wrt in the past and knew I had an TP-link old router that would have been able to be used to create a separate network (wireless and wired) but this was quite old and I figured there should be something to fit the bill,…
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I’ve been keeping an eye on 3d printer for sometime, about 5 years ago one turned up at work. It was a rather expensive lump, imported from the US and when by the name “makerbot”. The Buzz in the office was great and it wasn’t long before it was unpacked, powered up and printing some of the demo prints pre-installed on the SD card. After a few days, lots of WOWs, the novelty wore off and the team that were going to actually be using it took ownership and that…
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So…….Smart watches have been around for some time now (sorry) and love them or hate them if Apple and a few other companies have their way we will have some form of one over the coming years. From e-ink pebbles, hybrid analog with smart features to full on Apple watches, selection and price is giving consumers more choice. So I toyed with the idea of a pebble and with the advent of the pebble HR 2 I decided to wait, as with most of my waiting games they went under…
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