Out with the white in with the black! You know me – if it’s ‘tech’, “I love it!”. Finally after what the Sky installer estimated was at least a 10-year-old piece of kit, our white ‘Sky160-box’ in the bedroom finally gave up (after slowly ‘losing’ most channels one-by-one over the past few weeks). In spite …
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The (Bank Holiday) Weekend Starts Here…
FridayDenis joined us in the afternoon. He’s staying until Sunday. He’d had a good trip down and was already at ours when I got back from Trish and John’s after sorting out a few bits & pieces with Trish’s phone and tablet. Ann was working from home and after a(nother) frantic week at work, we …
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i Love Technology! (Part 12039)
Technophobes look away now! Today, the BBC released a major update to the legendary iPlayer app for Android. Now it’ll work on high-end 10 inch Tablets too! It’s been a long time coming, but definitely worth the wait! Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not publishing my first post until 2004 – …
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Ouch! my Head Hurts (geddit?!)
Even for a confirmed Doctor Who geek like me, last night’s episode left my head spinning. The episode began with some touching and clever scenes that very much fitted in with 2013, the anniversary year. What else? Well, definitely a wtf moment right at the end (I won’t spoil it here, just in case you’ve …
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What Does it Mean Doctor?
Doctor Who series 7 comes to a close this weekend at 7pm, where we’ll apparently learn the answer to the question posed by Dorium Maldova in an earlier episode: ‘the question that must never ever be answered’* . Stand-by afterwards then for the gazillions of Internet Forums to overheat big time as the topic is …
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Journey to the Centre of the Tardis
A great episode on Saturday – with some good references to the Doctor’s past. Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not publishing my first post until 2004 – well into my 40s! My lifelong love of technology and communication (in all its forms), together with a fondness for the art of writing …
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Final Piece of the Sky Jigsaw?
Sometime in the past 24 hours, Sky updated its Sky-Box software so that their catchup service, now has ALL the main terrestrial channels represented (‘4OD’ was the final service to be added). For a TV addict like me, this is great news! Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not publishing my first …
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Broadband Satellite Comes of Age
In these parts, we need all the help we can get with our broadband connection. The pitiful speeds offered via the big players may be OK for the occasional download and checking of emails, but if you want to do big-boy stuff like watch iPlayer, download movies and maybe even upload data to websites, you’ll …
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Fire and Ice
We woke to find that we’d had around 3-4 inches of snow overnight – all that on top of the ice from yesterday! Nice!!! The house felt freezing, so we fired up the err, fire and were soon ‘toasty-warm’. We postponed our drive over to Peterborough preferring to stay in and catch-up with stuff on …
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Doctor Who – Christmas Special 2012: The Snowmen
The annual Doctor Who Christmas Special has now become as regular as the obligatory post-lunch snooze and the wet weather here in the UK! This year’s episode promised to be a little more special in a number of ways. First up, it introduced the Doctor’s new companion, after the departure of ‘The Ponds’ in the …
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Tech Alert! – BBC iPlayer on my Sky Box
Worth the wait, but sometime between 7am and 9.30am this morning, BBC’s iPlayer service became available on my Sky Box. On closer inspection, there’s even HD content there too for downloading! Now all we need is Channel 4’s catch-up service and Sky will then provides catch-up services …
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Sky+ HD Box gets more features
As if my Sky+ HD Box couldn’t acquire any more features – it just has (almost!) Those of us with this newer type of Box, will have woken up this morning to find that the (rather confusingly titled) ‘Anytime’ and ‘Anytime+’ labels in the Planner have been retired – and replaced with ‘On Demand’. This …
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Doctor Who – Series 7, Episode 1 “Asylum of the Daleks”
The 7th series (or 33rd in ‘old money’) of Doctor Who re-materialised onto TV screens tonight with ‘The Moff’ promising blockbuster type episodes rather than the long story-arcs of previous series. It seems like an age since the series was last on TV, so what do we know about what’s coming up in this series? …
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Can you see us?
Just before the BBC transmitted the Olympics Closing Ceremony on Sunday at 9pm, there was a short (two minute) ‘countdown’ programme. Ralph just alerted me to the fact that if you look closely, you can see us gearing-up for the celebration. The programme is currently available on iPlayer and our fifteen (milli)seconds of fame is …
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The Only Way is… Tooway
OK, after years of constantly below-par broadband speeds here, I finally ‘bit the bullet’ and did something about it. For as long as I can remember, it seemed like everyone else (apart from the rest of the neighbours in our immediate area) were getting faster connection speeds than us. When the houses were built 20+ …
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Dalek anyone?
Series 7 of Doctor Who starts next month here in the UK! Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not publishing my first post until 2004 – well into my 40s! My lifelong love of technology and communication (in all its forms), together with a fondness for the art of writing seemed to …
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Sky Go and Ice Cream Sandwich
Occasionally an app comes along that makes a big difference to getting the most out of your Smartphone and its data allowance. Step forward the ‘Sky Go’ app from err, Sky. At last, this is now available for Android’s newish operating system ‘ICS’ (Ice Cream Sandwich) and a range of Smartphones including my HTC Sensation. …
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Go Figure!
A bit like Marmite, you either love or hate the GoCompare.com TV adverts. They’re from that group of ads (so-bad-they’re-good) that make them instantly memorable! So, when I came across their latest a few days back, I couldn’t decide whether it’s simply genius… or simply crap!You decide! <img alt="" galleryimg="no" onload="var downlevelDiv = document.getElementById('034309f3-11ed-4b7f-9a48-afa20c4c860c'); downlevelDiv.innerHTML …
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TV: BBC 2’s ‘Line of Duty’
If you like your Brit Police procedural dramas a little different, then give episode 1 of BBC 2’s ‘Line of Duty’ a watch on iPlayer. It began on BBC2 this week (Tuesday) and felt very realistic right from the start. There’s plenty of well-known faces, and the acting is top-notch throughout. The numerous twist-and-turns throughout …
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Sky Gods
We love our TV, and more especially, all the ‘stuff’ that the ‘Sky-Gods’ provide – the excellent sky-box (that consistently wins all the design awards when pitched against everyone else’s), the mobile app, and the ability to set-the-box using my phone – these all make watching our fave programmes a breeze. Something we’ve got very …
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“Supplementary, my Dear Watson…”
Fans of the recent BBC series: Sherlock may want to check-out series 1 on DVD. Tucked away on disc 2, is the series pilot, that was never shown on TV. Entitled, A Study in Pink, it shares the same title as the episode that was broadcast, but only runs for an hour (instead of the …
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Tech Alert No. 1138: Sky on your Smartphone
This is cool… and free… and launched today. If you’ve got a Sky package and an Android phone (well, most newer ones) you can now watch Sky programmes on your mobile. Just go to the Android Market and search using ‘sky’ as your criteria. Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not publishing …
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TV’s Hustle – Last ever episode
I just watched last night’s last-ever episode. Predictable? Maybe! Although not quite such a quizzical ending as the recent Sherlock finale, I thought it did the script-writers proud and brought the series full-circle. Shame it’s now finished, as IMO it was always a very watchable programme …and family friendly too. #hustle Steve PalmerI got into …
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Sherlock Holmes: Where Fiction and Fiction Collide…
How weird..! Doctor Who and Sherlock Holmes meet! Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not publishing my first post until 2004 – well into my 40s! My lifelong love of technology and communication (in all its forms), together with a fondness for the art of writing seemed to be the perfect combination …
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I luv Technology!
Why would a holiday across half the world get in the way of watching a good TV show? Well, under normal circumstances it probably would, but with a bit of tech jiggery-pokery, here I am in the Emirates Lounge watching this year’s Doctor Who Christmas Special on my NetBook! How is that even possible? …answers …
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It’s Christmas (almost!)
It may not be the 25th just yet – but for me, Christmas officially starts when the bumper edition of the TV and Radio Times comes out and I can plan what to fill up the Sky Box with!!! Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not publishing my first post until 2004 …
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Satisfying Saturday
It’s one of those weekends where a lot of good things happened on the same day. The day started well with possibly the hottest day of the year so far. Papers were saying we were hotter than Barbados! Maybe… it was only 26 degrees here! The cats went in for their regular wash-and-blow-dry and whilst …
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TV: Doctor Who series returns
Whilst I have the greatest respect for Steven Moffat as the writer for last night’s opening episode episode (he did write ‘Blink’, my favourite of all time), ‘Let’s Kills Hitler’, left me confused and slightly annoyed. Let’s start with the title. I think there should be a rule that says you can’t name an episode …
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Second half of Doctor Who Series 6 soon…
Not long to wait… “Let’s Kill Hitler!” 😮 (Provocative title ehh?!?! Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not publishing my first post until 2004 – well into my 40s! My lifelong love of technology and communication (in all its forms), together with a fondness for the art of writing seemed to be …
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Sky HD
We finally took the plunge today and went ‘HD’. The Box had been sitting here for a few days as I hadn’t had time to even think about unpacking it all. Did it go smoothly? No, not really! First, I couldn’t get the TV to switch to the Sky HD box, automatically, on switch-on. I …
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