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Plastic Logic display and Apple?

Posted on December 21, 2009 by Geoff

A thought occurred to me after reading this Twitter from Mark Littlewood. What if Cambridge based Plastic Logic’s new screen is going to be the display for the often rumoured Apple Tablet? With investors pumping 250 million dollars or so … Continue reading →

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3G IPhone crack

Posted on November 26, 2008 by Geoff

Oh dear my 3G IPhone is starting to crack up:- The crack is about 12mm (1/2″ long) starting from the 3.5mm headphone connector. I have an appointment to see a Genius in the Cambridge Apple store in a short while…. … Continue reading →

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Autumnal Observations

Posted on October 18, 2008 by Geoff

A few notes from my walk around Cambridge today. The guy I know who runs a tiling warehouse store (I was his first customer 15 years ago) said the bottom just fell out of his market 3 weeks ago. He … Continue reading →

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Apple screws it up.

Posted on October 16, 2008 by admin

In the beautifully illustrated tear down of the new MacBook at iFixit there is the discovery that the new MacBook contains an astounding 96 screws of which 56 hold down the keyboard. It must be an assemblers / BOM nightmare … Continue reading →

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iPhone external battery test run

Posted on October 10, 2008 by Geoff

Tomorrow is the big day for trialling my new external iPhone battery pack, that I recently purchased with the gift voucher that Euan gave me for loaning him my old iPhone I will be at Be2Camp 2008 during the day … Continue reading →

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iPhone simple If found screen

Posted on August 22, 2008 by Geoff

I created myself a simple & neat ‘if found’ or ICE (In case of emergency) front screen on the iphone. I used a regular photo which I over printed with my details using Skitch. I then uploaded it to the … Continue reading →

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MegaPhone & iPhone

Posted on February 21, 2008 by Geoff

MegaPhone from Ecamm networks is a very neat little application for the Mac and iPhone. You can now store and read all yout sms texts on the MAC as well as storing all your call data. A big plus for … Continue reading →

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The Leopard and Lexmark

Posted on October 31, 2007 by Geoff

I upgraded my 24″ iMac to Leopard (OSX10.5) all went smoothly. Except for my brand new Lexmark X4580 printer/scanner/reader. The printer refuses to print and even worse crashes the programme that is sending the print. Looking up in Google I … Continue reading →

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