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Power Flicker on Laptop (Philips X53)

The power keeps flickering on my Philips X53, in the past I’ve gone for the time honoured tradition with older laptops of the “Cable Wiggle”, but on this occasion that doesn’t seem to be the problem! The DC pin inside appears to be loose...

New Toys and Thoughts on PCWorld

Well, I pulled my finger out after my earlier posts today and headed off to PCWorld to buy my Philips X53. I did have to think twice when I saw that the Toshiba with fingerprint scanner AND PCMCIA had been reduced. But the 512MB of RAM compared to the 1024 on the...

Netgear SC101 Review

In a previous post I was considering Network Storage – well I’ve bitten the bullett and here is the review of it! The Netgear SC101 is a fantastic piece of kit…. After my initial cock-up ordering a SATA drive instead of an IDE, I now have the toaster...

Network Storage and Disks

I’m concerned about the storage space I have available for the following reasons: a) I only have so much space on my laptop. b) I don’t want to leave the main machine booted all the while c) I don’t want a USB hard drive – as it’s another...

New Scanner – And it works on it’s side!!!

I recently bought the Canon LIDE 20… Actually to tell the truth I got back off holiday and wanted to send the photos to family and my old scanner is over 7 years old – so I decided the business could afford to buy a new one! Both Dabs and Amazon are both...