Archive for January, 2008
GlobalSat DG-100 vs Nokia LD-3W GPS module review
For over two months now I've been the owner of two different GPS devices, and I've had plenty of time to thoroughly use them whilst on my London Underground tube walking project, so I thought it was about time I reviewed them. Both are headless GPS units - in other words neither have a display. And both are based on the SiRFstar III chipset. [...]
Sony Cyber-shot W80 digital camera review
I've been using the Sony Cyber-shot for over two months now, long enough to know what's good and bad about it. It is a 7.2 megapixel camera featuring 3 times optical zoom. It has a slightly higher spec than the Sony W55. The extras it has over the W55 are optical stabilisation technology and a microphone. It was about £30 more expensive than [...]
Nokia phones automatically tagging photos with cell ID
I wonder how many people know that their Nokia phone may be automatically tagging all their photos with enough information to track where they go? - even if they don't have GPS. This is certainly the case if you have a Nokia N80 with Lifeblog installed. When the photos are synced to your PC so is the location information. It is easily viewable [...]
Backup / restore of last modified and created file time attributes on Windows
Last month I found that I needed to be able to backup and restore the last modified and created file times of a load of files in Windows XP. This is probably a bit of an obscure thing to need to do so naturally I couldn't find any existing tools to do it. I've therefore made a Perl script to allow this to be done. Just so you are clear, this [...]
2008 Excel One Page Calendar
For the past few years I've found Excel to be useful for creating one page yearly calendars. Here is is a download link to my 2008 Excel calendar - 2008 calendar. I've highlighted UK bank holidays in yellow but you can change these cells if you live somewhere else. Update: A 2009 Excel calendar is now available.
