EyeTV gets smarter
By Mark Tennent in Reader
Posted in Video capture, Apple on January 26, 2009 at 12:27 pm
Elgato’s new EyeTV update released last week is ideal for any foodie. We caught Jamie Oliver’s programme on wild mushrooms, where he and Gennaro Contaldo scout around a forest, finding ceps and chicken of the woods. Gennaro gave Jamie some useful identification tips along with beautiful close ups of the fungi. If only we had set EyeTV to record it because we get a lot of mushrooms in our wooded garden. Read more
Phone bills and forms
By Mark Tennent in Reader
Posted in Uncategorized on January 22, 2009 at 12:43 pm
What a difference a decade has made to telephone bills. We realised it after a reply was left for us this week on an article written a few years ago for an American publisher, here. All good stuff too, but I would say that, wouldn’t I? Read more
Broadband endowment
By Mark Tennent in Reader
Posted in Internet on January 9, 2009 at 1:29 pm
When we got our mortgage some years ago, Mike, the chap arranging it, told us about endowment mortgages. He drew charts to show how good they could be, by paying for the house and leaving a pot in the bank. Mike gave us the documentation, for us to sign alongside the warning it was not guaranteed there would be enough money to pay the mortgage at the end of the term. We elected to get a repayment mortgage instead. Read more
Bad Hair day
By Mark Tennent in Reader
Posted in Gripes moans and whinges, iPod on January 5, 2009 at 3:53 pm
Do you think they could be doing it on purpose? After all, their last cock-up spawned a whole industry of Y2K “consultants” who guaranteed to make work anything which wouldn’t work after midnight 1999. Read more
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