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13 Jan, 2017
Up-to-date Hard Disk Holder - Great for Mac or PC Backup
My 4TB Network-Attached Storage NAS was great for backing up a PC across my network, but almost useless for backing up my Mac. File systems different, disk format different, whatever - it took 9 days to backup a half-gig MacBook, then a whole day for anything new, and so often it would stop and insist on another 9-day epic from scratch instead. So, I've that nice big 4TB drive spare, easy to unscrew and unplug from the NAS, and this enclosure lets me just as easily tidily secure and connect that disk inside it. My NAS disk is now a directly-connected USB 3 external disk. They provide the screws and even a screwdriver! It stands on its own supplied feet, all the connections and the indicator light on the same edge, UK power brick, data cable supplied brings top-speed USB 3 straight to the MacBbook, ready to go in minutes! Just a quick disk reformat, few more minutes, and initial complete backup and then clone of my MacBook Pro, 500GB, takes just a few hours. Magic. Differential backup of new and changed files now takes minutes, where the NAS took almost a day.
Couple of observations: 1) There's what appears to be a tiny LED indicator. At night, you can go into the room and think it is a cinema, that tiny LED gives HUGE bright blue light output! Black felt-tip pen used to darken this wasn't enough, needed some black tape to reduce the glare. It's fine in a brightly-lit room, though. It flashes whenever it's doing something and is bright steady when it's doing nothing - I'd rather it stayed dark when inactive. Small trivial detail, this. 2) The UK power adaptor plugs into a 3-pin socket, but the low-voltage power lead for this enclosure comes out of the top of the plug, not the bottom. So it looks awkward in a wall socket where normally cables come downwards. Another very small detail.
Overall, if you have a modern (SATA) big-capacity hard disk and need to backup a Mac, this enclosure is a top-speed way to do it. I researched other similar enclosures at cheaper prices, many from the Far East, but the combination of latest high-speed data transfer, UK power supply, and UK delivery costs and speed put this one way out in front for me. JOY ! - rapid backup at last!
05 Dec, 2007
A brilliant phone to fit my car
2 of 2 found this helpful Want to benefit from a modern cell-phone with many up-to-date features? I bought a used Nokia 6230i on eBay, to do just that.
For the paranoid, my old year-2000 Motorola triband cell-phone may be good for avoiding government surveillance, not having the "benefit" of the modern microchip which instantly tells where it is when asked, it can only be tracked to a single cell instead of to a few metres.
However, it was hard to read with its dull small screen and my fading eyesight, difficult to text with no predictive assistance, unintuitive with its menus, and far too bulky even to attach to my jogging shorts, I have to carry it with me. Did I mention, that it is desperately UGLY, too? Oh, and that it just went "brrr, brrr" when called, the best of its sad choice of ringtones, with no personal option?
My SIM contract is "Pay as you Went", no monthly fee whatever, and they bill me in arrears only for calls actually made, which is not many - my average monthly bill is trivial unless I go overseas and text furiously! I needed a phone which could be unlocked if it was on the "wrong" network.
So you can guess what I liked about this Nokia 6230i replacement! Small, cute, easy-to-read bright screen, easy texting, obvious menus with picture assistance. it works well here and abroad, triband for USA as well as Europe of course. There is a nice bit of Beethoven to alert me to callers, or any downloaded ring-tone I care for. Being Nokia, of course you can unlock it easily. Just a code number to enter, easily found free on the web. Of course it also has a camera, a memory for digital files, connection to the web via GPRS -
- and : Bluetooth.
Why did I choose the Nokia 6230i? Herein lies a story: I had bought a car with Bluetooth!
Like many cars these days, my December 2004 vehicle came fitted with Bluetooth to allow instant wirefree connection to a cellphone inside the saloon, with a switch or two already fitted with which to operate it. The Nokia 6230i is clearly one of the mainstream phones that BMW (and I think Mercedes and other car-makers too) have provisioned-for, they obviously can't do cradles for every phone ever built. They provide an electronic cradle for the 6230i to easily slip into and be directly connected, both to my car's charging electricity and the car's external phone antenna.
Get in the car, slip the phone in its cradle, click it down, drive off. That's all there is to it, the phone is fully functional immediately. Actually, it is fully functional the moment it is inside the saloon, even in your pocket still without being in its cradle, as the bluetooth connection is wirefree - just that you are stuck with the phone's aerial inside the metal car, which is not as good as the external antenna, and the battery doesn't charge.
Get to the carpark, one push-to-release button lifts the phone from its cradle, battery fully charged, and it even slips inside my jogging shorts being so light and small.
I bought the used phone on eBay, there are several Nokia 6230i phones - and others - for sale at any one time.
I bought the BMW cradle on eBay too, the makers charge £60 for a new one, my new one cost £15 on eBay
So: a nice cell-phone with loads of modern features, fits my car - I'm a very satisfied Nokia 6230i user. If necessary, I'll remember the only disadvantage of modern cell-phones, and I'll turn it off to avoid surveillance of my exact location by the government!
16 Nov, 2017
Spectacle Cords at spectacular low price
Amazing - a dozen spectacle cords for the price of one at an optical shop.
Those of us who hang our reading glasses from our necks can go through these quite quickly - especially if we use cheap reading glasses with tapered ear-hook ends, which can slip out of the cord when tugged. The only defence is to pull the cord end-loop really tight, to try to stop it enlarging and slipping off the spectacles hook. Even the £5 shop-bought ones don't last many weeks of such constant tightening.
I'm delighted with my dozen..