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Amazon Echo

I'm not often one to buy the latest gadget without letting them work the kinks out, but I read and heard enough good things about the Amazon Echo to give it ...

Blogging on the Kindle Fire

I thought I'd hate doing this on a device with no hardware keyboard (why did I sell my netbook? Remember when they were cool?), but it's workable for short b...

Monzo

Monzo is something I've been keeping an eye on for a while, and having been at the top of the waiting list all summer, I was straight off the mark when they ...

Hive door sensor

Since launching Hive for heating remote control, British Gas have rolled out quite a lot of other products which work in the same app and use the same router...

First week with the Huawei Watch

I have myself a Huawei Watch (W1). This is one of those areas of tech that I've been quietly sitting out, but having read a few reviews and seen a few friend...

Sip2Sim and the OnePlus Two

Andrews and Arnold do an interesting service where they supply a SIM card which connects to VOIP at their end. Annoyingly, they don't have a sensibly usable ...

Debian and encrypted external disks

Pretty impressed by Debian. I formatted an external hard disk (for backups) with the usual dm-crypt encryption, and plugging it in produces exactly the right...

Station parking

I've parked in the long stay at Didcot station a few times recently. It works well enough, but in common with the Oxford park and ride car parks, and many ot...

Classing up the kitchen, part 2

Following on from my first post on this, behold my classed up kitchen with LED worktop lighting: Looks great, instant-on, uses less power than the old fluor...

Bytemark charging for IPv4 addresses

We've had a server at Bytemark for many years (since the summer of 2009). For the most part they've been good, Towards the end of last year, they started cha...