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Tech for 2010 – “Backups”

Posted on 29 Jul 2010 in Gadgets

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Offsite: I’m up to 6TB of active storage at home and really needed to rethink my back up strategy. So I’ve recently added 2 x 1TB drives to my IcyDock MB-561S-4S that I rotate every few weeks for offsite backups of 1TB of the most critical data, in addtion to another 2TB of local backups at home. Works nicely thanks to SecondCopy and some SCP scripts to backup my Linux server. I’m also using Microsoft’s BitLocker for whole volume encryption of the offsite backups. If you don’t have more than three copies of your critical data you’re crazy!

Tech for 2010: “Photography”

Posted on 29 Jul 2010 in Gadgets

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DSLR: I downgraded from the n0D line to the n00D line of Canon’s – a 20D to 550D. I’ve had so little use for my Digital SLR over the years I couldn’t justify the 50D, nor did I want it at this stage as the 550D has aguably better features – for my usage. I would like a 50mm prime for portraits and possibly a proper photography course if I can make the time.

Compact Digital: I’m still using a Panasonic LUMIX TZ7 which is great camera with superb HD movies and sound, as well as perfectly good pictures – great for filming gigs and festivals. There’s a TZ10 now, but I’m not ready for an upgrade just yet. Highly recommend the Panasonic TZ10 over the similar Canon model if you are in this market, LUMIX are really edging ahead of Canon – having owned four Canon compacts before the Panasonic.

HD Video: I continue to be underwhelmed by my now much superceded Panasonic HDC-SD100 camcorder. Definitely a poor purchase decision, will not dip into this market again for a few years.

Tech for 2010 – “Paper Free”

Posted on 29 Jul 2010 in Gadgets

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Books, Magazines and Newspapers: I will now only buy books available in ePUB, MOBI or on Amazon Kindle – absolutely love being able to pick up and read my books on iPhone, iPad and Kindle – with last page read position synchronised on all devices (except when I’m on the Underground!). I’ll now only read magazines and newspapers available on the iPad, for example WIRED and GQ. I still carry both an iPad and Kindle though, the Kindle is far more convenient to pull out on a crowded train and does not have the glare problems you have with the iPad when outdoors.

Digital Archives: Absolutely loving Evernote- synchronised notes between Desktop, iPhone and iPad apps. Combined with using JotNot to snap and index handwritten notes and whiteboards using the iPhone – so cool to be able to text search for something you hand wrote on a whiteboard months ago. Also purchased a Fujitsu SnapScan S1300 Duplex Document Scanner and have been gradually PDF archiving and disposing of all my all paper records, statements, receipts etc (although not uploading these to Evernote – no point in sharing those outside my secure home network). Also have a CardScan on my desk at work for getting rid of business cards collected.

Read It Later: highly recommend Instapaper for quickly saving webpages for reading later on the iPhone, iPad or your desktop. Really nice reading UI.

Always On Hand: ensuring I always have a document or guide available when needed. I’m still happily using Dropbox to synchronise useful files between my laptops, desktops, iPad and iPhone. GoodReader is also very handy for connecting to all your documentation sources, including the inbuilt browser which is great for downloading PDFs and storing them in GoodReader. Also integrates as a viewer for mail attachments etc.

Daily Digest for July 27th

Posted on 27 Jul 2010 in Daily

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Checked in at UCL Engineering Cafe

Fighter jet crash caught on camera in Lethbridge, Canada. July 23. 2010

Posted on 26 Jul 2010 in Pop Culture

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Favourited this video on YouTube.

Daily Digest for July 24th

Posted on 24 Jul 2010 in Daily

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Checked in at The Old Brewery

Daily Digest for July 17th

Posted on 17 Jul 2010 in Daily

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Checked in at RAF Fairford

Daily Digest for July 13th

Posted on 13 Jul 2010 in Daily

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