Tag: Technology
Podcasts I Listen To
Ok, I do like to listen to the occasional podcast, and there are a bunch that I like to listen to regularly. Being in traffic…
How to Stop Your Caravan From Disappearing
Caravan thefts in New Zealand have become a lot more common in the past few years, and every day or so you hear about another…
Tips: Get Your Cabling in Tricky Places
Do you have an existing house or structure and trying to get a cable into a tricky place? Here are a few tips from methods…
Complete Backup and Restore of an Android Device
If you are upgrading an Android device and want to cover everything (and pedantically save the entire history/setup of your phone), for example installing a…
1965 Zephyr Caravan Renovation
These are the before and after photos of our 1965 15″ Zephyr Deluxe Caravan. It was apparently stored in a shed for 20 years so…
9 Simple Tips for Smart Phone Photography
I have some good camera gear, and many of my favourite photos are ones that I have taken on SLR, with carefully chosen aperture, speed…
Upgrading a 5 Year Old Samsung Galaxy S2 to Android M
I needed a phone for my son as he had been given an older ZTE V795 phone running Android Gingerbread. The ridiculous thing about this…
My Photobooth Project…
I needed a photobooth for my wedding (this was one of my few assigned wedding tasks!). You know, one of those ‘take a few photos…
How I manage and share 1000s of digital photographs
People often ask me for the best way to store their thousands of photos, and I’ve tried a bunch of ways in the past. I take…
Tips to create easy Tag Cloud Artwork
You’ve seen them… those pictures made up of lots of words. You can create these pretty easily at Tagxedo, but it is handy to have…
Dashcams… and the $80 Mobius
The proliferation of small sports cameras, ‘dash’ cams and security cameras has meant that Youtube abounds with footage of incidents, near misses, ‘oh %$#@’ moments,…
Samsung Galaxy S5 Release, Impressive?
I see the S5 has just been announced by Samsung finally at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona & and it will be available in…
Linked-in Collec…Connecting
Connecting to people on social media has its place, and I have been using a number of social platforms over recent times for rapid viewing…
iPad and iPhone tips
Just a repost from a technology site. I guess if you have an iPad these are useful things to know. I think they have hyped…
Bitcoin…. it’s not magic
Bitcoin has been mentioned in the mainstream media recently as a ‘new form of electronic money’. It sounds impressive, but the way it works as a…
