Mike Slocombe

  • Portable Photo Storage Choices For Travellers (pt 2)

    Portable Photo Storage Choices For Travellers (pt 2)Yesterday we started to look at the many ways of tackling the issue of data storage when on the move.

    Mid priced viewers
    Deep pocketed photographers looking for more professional features may be impressed by the EPSON P-3000 Multimedia Storage Viewer, offering movie and photo playback on a large 4″, 640×480 pixels, Photo Fine Ultra LCD, backed by 40GB internal memory, built-in CF and SD memory card slots, long battery life and a built-in audio player.
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  • Portable Photo Storage Choices For Travellers

    Portable Photo Storage Choices For TravellersAlthough digital cameras and cheap memory cards are conspiring to make us take more and more photos, backing up those precious snaps when you’re away from home can be a bit of a fiddly task, especially if you’re shooting in the memory hungry RAW format.

    For short trips, a couple of spare memory cards should be more than enough, but for longer jaunts, more versatile back up solutions are often needed.
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  • Google Launches Anti-Piracy YouTube Tool

    Google Launches Anti-Piracy YouTube ToolGoogle has rolled out a test version of an anti-piracy system for its hugely popular YouTube video sharing site.

    The beta tool, called ‘YouTube Video Identification’, will let content owners intercept copyrighted clips as they’re being uploaded to YouTube.
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  • BBC Hooks Up With Adobe For Flash iPlayer

    BBC Hooks Up With Adobe For Flash iPlayerVast tracts of London, UK and San Jose, California were engulfed in a buzzword blizzard as the BBC and Adobe Systems announced a strategic relationship around the delivery of Web video content.
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  • Hyundai W-100 Wrist Phone Stuffs In The Functionality

    Hyundai W-100 Wrist Phone Stuffs In The FunctionalityAlthough we’ve never really been convinced by their practicality, we’ve always warmed to the idea of strutting around with a cool hi-tech gadget stuck on our wrist (even if the aforementioned article would most likely be full of fail after a big night in the pub).
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  • Nokia Ships Updated N95 Phone Packing 8GB

    Nokia Ships Updated N95 Phone Packing 8GBLooking the soon-come iPhone straight in the iEye and saying, “Eat my feature list, Jobsie!” is the updated Nokia N95 8GB handset packing – as the name suggests – 8GB of built-in storage.

    Starting global shipments from today, the Nokia N95 8GB boasts a slightly bigger 2.8″ QVGA display (although still stuck at the lowish 320×240 pixels resolution) and the same 2-way slide out screen.
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  • Google Set To Increase GMail Storage Limit

    Google Set To Increase GMail Storage LimitWith punters lapping up the free email storage offered by Google’s GMail service, the company has pledged to accelerate the rate at which it adds storage space.

    Google gave the world of free e-mail services an almighty kick up the jacksi back in April 2004 when it began offering 1GB of free storage for its Gmail service.
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  • Mobile Internet Access Hits 15m In UK

    If the growth of mobile access use continues at the current rate in the UK, future Brits may develop hands with massive thumbs, teensy little fingers and Quasimodo-like hunches developed from squinting at tiny little screens, according to a new study by the Mobile Data Association.

    Well, alright, we made up the bit about the possible Darwinian side-effects, but the figures show that an awful lot of us are now getting on line with our phones, with the total now hovering around the 15 million mark.
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  • Technology, Trains And Trainspotting (Pt 2)

    Technology And TrainspottingFollowing on from our piece yesterday looking at plethora of railway related websites.

    I remember Adlestrop
    Another fantastic resource is the New Adlestrop Railway Atlas, which offers a clear and crisp historical atlas of Britain’s railways, mapping passenger lines, stations and freight routes, both extant and abandoned.
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  • Technology, Trains And Trainspotting

    Technology And TrainspottingAlthough many will try to deny it (while over-eagerly craning a neck at a passing steam-hauled special), an awful lot of British blokes do have something of an obsession with railways.
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