I love my Wacom Cintiq as I loved my Intuos 3 tablet before it. When I first got the Cintiq I read a lot of comments from people who loved their new Cintiq so much they were immediately consigning their Intuos to eBay or FreeCycle (or – heaven forfend! – the trash), and this really [...]

A few months back Adrian put a small box on my desk. Inside was 8 gigs of RAM and a message: “It’s time.” Time to go to Vista 64 bit. I resisted. The little box sat on my desk, staring at me for weeks. I was scared. I was absolutely convinced that I would lose [...]

I weighed my handbag the other day. It weighed 8 lbs! Apart from the ‘normal’ weight of keys, glasses, lipstick and hairbrushes, my bag also contained all my essential kit for the digital life of a writer/journalist/techie/web developer on the road: Camera: Coolpix L2 GPS: Garmin nivi 300 MP3:Apple iPod Touch 16GB MP3: Creative Zen [...]

I just read Adrian’s blog on ZDNet and to my surprise he’s talking about HIS new Mac Mini – which is kinda weird because he bought it as an anniversary gift for ME yesterday.  Hmmmm… it’s bit like when Homer Simpson bought Marge a gift of a new bowling ball (complete with the name Homer on it). [...]