Category Archives: Technology

Lenovo Thinkpad T400 14” Review

I have owned my Thinkpad T400 for a sufficiently long period of time to be able to give my overall view of the machine now. I have had a couple of Thinkpads in the past a T41p and a T61, … Continue reading

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Fragmentation on the Mobile Web

Every day I see some advert for an iPhone App, usually heralding itself as life changing. What concerns me is that a lot of the time these iPhone applications such as the Empire and Guardian ones, are really only providing … Continue reading

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The Smartphone Operating System War

In between History essays I can’t help but get distracted about technology, and my friend’s dilemma about which smartphone to plump for, now, with a year left on his contract, has made me think. He is very enamoured with the … Continue reading

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Thoughts on the Nokia N900

Looking ahead to the UK launch of the N900 in late October, I wanted to collect my thoughts on the N900 whilst taking into account my previous ruminations on the N810 release, and making comparisons where appropriate (although unfortunately this … Continue reading

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How to Send Email From a Different Address Using Gmail and Thunderbird

This is a problem that’s been plaguing me for years, literally. I’ll outline the problem in brief. Say you’re using Google’s email service Gmail and you use “plus addressing” (which is basically username+tag@gmail.com) and you also use mailing-lists. The popular … Continue reading

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