Apartment positive

Apartment positive

Having handed vast amounts of money in the form of cheques to our estate agent last week, we waited with baited breath over the weekend to see if we had actually got the apartment we were hoping for. And the answer is yes, thankfully. We will be in The Leighton Hill...
Oregon Scientific Travel Clock

Oregon Scientific Travel Clock

Wiffy is correct that her travel clock is tricky to learn the first time round. I still need to find the manual to remember how to change the radio control instructions (which are wrong in the manual, but workable out). Sadly / thankfully there is no radio-controlled...

VPNs – more time and place shifting

So I wanted to watch the highlights of the cricket match that was on Star yesterday. With no PVR at the apartment, I wanted to see what the BBC had to say. Sadly, it said: you are not in the UK. Thankfully, VPN (Virtual Private Networks) are a solution to this. You...

Intel MyWiFi – free tethering

So, finding ourselves in a serviced apartment with only one network connection (in the bedroom!), I took it on myself to find some WiFi tethering options for my PC (given that I can do it on my phone, surely it wouldn’t be too difficult?). Well, actually it...