OK, well the Met Office may not be beating a path, but as a hobbyist it seemed too good to pass up. I’ve always had a hankering for one of those weather stations you mount on the roof, which can plug into your computer and push onto the internet. It had to be relatively cheap, easy to assemble, wireless (not drilling holes in...
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Word Lens gives us a glimpse of where the next few years are going to take us… I want one of these with an eyepiece connected to my iPhone over wifi. An iEye, perhaps… (I suppose a pair would be a bi-iEye?) It runs to about 5 – 6 frames per second, and it’s a bit fidgety. Clearly there’s a little work...
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The camera connector kit struck me as a perfect companion for holidays or trips. Or – put it another way – one more in the growing list of things I can now do with my iPad, where I previously would have needed my MacBook Pro. I can view material at high resolution, prune the ones I don’t want to keep, and have a...
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At £55, the keyboard dock for the iPad isn’t cheap. For your money you get a nice aluminium keyboard, just like the Apple wireless ones, with a docking extension at the back. As well as the USB connector, there’s a 3.5mm audio line out jack. The whole feels very solid. You can move the docked iPad/keyboard combo around...
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Neat, isn’t it? After posting my (unflattering) review of the Apple-manufactured iPad case, I looked around and came across this. A colleague had nipped into PC World and paid £30 for it. It’s much, much nicer to have and hold than the Apple case. No pointed edges, in particular. I lounged on the sofa at the weekend...
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Fair enough, I was wondering whether they’d publish it. Average rating for the cover now runs to 3 stars which I still think is a bit much. Poor partner to a beautiful device Written by MC from London 31-May-2010 Functionally, it works well enough. It holds the iPad very snuggly and the armoured panels are in the right...
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