The Technic Alley

Electromate-400 is a power-pack, jump-starter and air compressor, all rolled into one – a very handy device to carry in your car on road trips.

Do you play a lot of MP3 or other music on your cell phone? If so, a typical Bluetooth phone headset does not really give you the best of music because it is mono. If you would like to use a headset for your normal phone use and also occassionally to listen to music, then [...]

If you have used a PDA or a smartphone, you are most likely familiar with an application called MemoPad (on Palm devices) and something similar. It is really just a text application where you can key in some notes for yourself. Having used PDAs and smartphones for a few years, I consider this as one [...]

Do you own a smartphone or do plan to get one? What do you plan to do with it? Why did you consider getting one?
A few years ago, I used to use the Palm based Visor Neo Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), where I used to store my address book, notes, calendar, etc. I used to [...]

Palm is now offering its new Centro as an unlocked smartphone. This is surely a move to keep its Treo users from moving to iPhone and Blackberry that have been gaining popularity in the recent months. This is Palm’s smallest smartphone to date. One thing that even die-hard Treo fans find hard to accept is [...]

I have been using my Buffalo NAS Box mainly as a network fileserver and a repository for backups so far. I tried the Web Access feature today, and it works quite nicely.
This feature allows you to access any assigned share on your disk through a web service. For example, you can create a share [...]

This was my father’s day gift this year from my wife and kids. I have been using it for only the last day or so, and here are some quick impressions.
The kit is EF 28-135 IS USM, and contains:

The EOS 40D body, with eyecup, body cup and installed battery for the data/time clock.
Lens: EF 28-135mm [...]

In this article, we look at some of the administration and configuration features of the Buffalo LinkStation Pro Duo NAS.
Logging in
In your web-browser, enter the IP address of your Buffalo Linkstation, e.g 10.1.5.5. You should see a login page. Enter your administrator login name and the password.
Home
This is the first page that you see [...]

Do you have a lot of critical data on your home computers that you would like to backup regularly? Do you wish that all your data was in one place and accessible from all PCs in your home? Are you struggling with multiple copies of your photos and videos?
A network-attached-storage box (NAS) like the Buffalo [...]

Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to transfer videos from your camcorder to your harddisk or your iPod when you are traveling without having to carry a laptop computer?
Browsing through the new products on display at the local Best Buy, I noticed something interesting. It is the Pinnacle Video Transfer, a nifty little gadget [...]