Great review of the Raspberry Pi from PC Pro – can’t wait until I get mine!… Read the rest
WordPress “Plugin upgrade Failed” Solution
One of the (many) things I like about WordPress is its ability to be able to automatically upgrade both the core installation and the plugins. This can also be one of the most frustrating part of WordPress too.
Those that have attempted to update their plugins using the automatic option may well be familiar with the following:
Unpacking the update
Deactivating the plugin
Removing the old version of the plugin
Could not remove the old plugin
Plugin upgrade Failed
Searching the forums reveals lots of frustrated users and very little in the way of solutions. I was one of these … Read the rest
April Fools
Google has really pulled out all the stops for April 1st this year – you can see all of them here but my personal favourite is Chrome Multitask Mode – it looks so useful!
However, the best of the lot today has got to be a reworking of the family favourite Hungry Hippos for iPad. I would definitely get this if it came out!
… Moleskine Addiction
If my addiction to electronic gadgets is bad then my addiction to Moleskine notebooks is much, much worse. Despite being able to take notes in Evernote I still like the feel of paper and Moleskines look and feel great. What’s more they do a load of really great limited editions as you can see from the latest release, this Lego branded version that has a brick top embedded onto the cover. Neat!… Read the rest
An Unexpected Apple Feeling
I have become something of an Apple convert of late making the switch (at home at least) from PC to Mac. This has also extended to my mobile devices, as has been well documented here. Funnily enough Apple have been great during the buying cycle for all my “i” products but recently I have had issues that meant I had to go in for technical help which showed this particular Apple store in a different light.
The first issue surrounded my iPhone 4S which the battery life was severely shortened by upgrading to iOS5.1. To be fair to the Apple … Read the rest
Poundland iPhone/iPad Docking Station
I am a big fan of gadgets and gadgeting bargains and regularly frequent Poundland to satisfy my need for gadgets on a budget so I was interested to see this docking station on a visit today. Having parted with my hard earned pound I am beginning to see that sometime there is very much truth in the old adage that you get what you pay for!
On the face of it the docking station looked good with a standard male iPhone port at the front plus a pass through female port at the back, along with a standard 3.5mm jack … Read the rest
PDair iPad Leather Case
The nice people over at Gearzap, knowing my love of gadgets and iPads in particular, have sent me over a new iPad cover to review. I was particularly excited to see that it was a case from PDair, a brand that I am familiar with having first bought one of their cases for my Dell Axim 50 many years ago.
For those not familiar with PDair they concentrate on making quality cases for a variety of gadgets with distinctive white stiching. This one for the iPad is no different using a high quality leather and has a really nice … Read the rest
Giving a Sparrow a Home
Cregle iPen for iPad
So finally my iPen for iPad arrived after quite a few false starts. For those that don’t know the iPen was a project that was initially funded through crowd-funding site Kickstarter and is a sophisticated stylus for the iPad. Where this differs to traditional styluses is that this has a dongle that you plug into the iPad’s port and this allows the iPen to get a much better accuracy than normal. In theory it should be possible to do natural handwriting and drawings as if you were using paper.
So far all I have been able to do is open … Read the rest
iOS 5.1 Disturbing my Sleep
Released at the same time as the new iPad was an update to the devices operating system, iOS 5.1. I don’t always update the OS on my devices but a number of the apps that I use would only continue to work if I upgraded, so I did.
One of the things listed as being included in this release was better battery life, although since upgrading I haven’t noticed any improvement and if anything it is slightly worse. However, I have been slightly taken aback by something that wasn’t listed in the release notes. It seems that since doing the … Read the rest