South Africa officially switched on its digital TV signal on November 1 2008. Wanting to be a part of the revolution, I acquired a digital TV tuner so that I could play … I decided to get a digital TV tuner for my media center PC, the reasoning being that instead of the poor quality […]
Toby Kurien
Toby is an electronic engineer with an interest in all things digital and electronic. He embraces technology and is always looking for new ways to incorporate it into his lifestyle.
He also buys a lots of gadgets and computer equipment, which he funds by writing software at his company, Cambrient Internet Applications.
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Netbooks have lost the plot
First came the promise of the OLPC, then came the Asus Eee PC, and life got good. Now that Pandora’s box has been opened, a hell spawn of so-called netbooks are flooding the market creating confusion, and completely eroding the good work done by the original Eee PC. I picked up the Asus Eee PC […]
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Privacy on social networks
They are in your Facebook, mining your data … The issue of privacy on social networking platforms like Facebook has been discussed at length before, and dismissed by most as merely drivel from paranoid folk. My take on the issue has always been one of neutrality — I’m well aware of the ability for private […]
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Of functionality and form factors – why I still need more tech
My recent gadget buying spree has left me with a gold mine of geeky gadgets. It suddenly hit me, as I made a list for insurance purposes, that I have several devices that can serve the same purpose, but I still use them all. This left me wondering: why do I have so many gadgets? […]