After the update is over……

Since I updated my HP Touchpad to 3.0.4 last week I have notice some improvements but also a few changes for the worse. I can now use any of my phones via bluetooth and there is a video camera which is nice. However, battery life seemed to fall off a cliff. Charging before bedtime, I [...]

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Goodies from SilverPrint

I have received a box of SilverPrint goodies to aid my return to analogue photography. I have used more black and white film in this past month than I have in the last few years. My first year at college is all film based. I’m not complaining, the first day home after my darkroom session, [...]

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Zen & the art of 125cc scooter maintenance

Getting ready for the onslaught of winter, I thought I should buy myself a book on scooter care. There are not that many books about. As I have had no luck in getting any answers about a service manual from the SYM importer (are you deaf motogb?) this little book from the RAC wil have [...]

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Another notebook?

I could not resist the new Memories range from Paperchase for obvious reasons.

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Picsel Office on my HP Touchpad

Yes I was one of the lucky ones who managed to nab a 32gb Touchpad from Comet during the HP firesale. Overall I’ve been very impressed with it. My main gripe has been the lack of good apps so far, but I see from places like precentral.com that there is a thriving community out there. [...]

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Sketchbook Homework – Joiners

Ok so I didn’t know what a joiner was (apart from the woodworker thing). When my tutor explained that David Hockney was a great exponent, the penny dropped. So you take loads of pictures of something and stick them all together to form a whole. Or something like that anyway. Off we went round the [...]

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The force is strong with this one

The latest addition to my growing collection of Moleskine notebooks is the rather neat Star Wars special edition with the scrolling script in bronze on the cover. I was chuffed to find that it has a reproduction cinema poster in the back pocket, a nice touch. Bought from Amazon for £10, pricey yes, but I [...]

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