New coffee machine.

Every geek likes his java and I'm no exception. Over the weekend I purchased this single cup, capsule coffee 'machine' . Its made by Krups and is called the Dolce Gusto one cup.
Its very quick and easy to use, requires little cleaning or maintenance and best of all produces great coffee!
It comes in black, white and red. 

Below is a quick video I recorded on my G1 Android phone of the quick process of brewing!
I'd already warmed some milk for about 20 seconds in the glass in case you are wondering.

Creative Vado HD first impressions.

I recently purchased a Creative Vado HD camcorder from Amazon. It has 8gb of inbuilt memory and will record HD quality for 2 hours.  It has a removable battery and comes with a rubber slip on skin type case.
First impressions are very good. It's super easy to use and has a HDMI output (comes with cable) and you can view your results on your HD TV in minutes.
It has a pull out USB connector on the base which allows you to plug it in to your computer to download, edit and upload your clips. There is some software pre-loaded on the Vado HD which allows you to do basic editing and uploading to YouTube etc.

Good points:-

• 8gb storage, enough for 2 hours HD recording. 


• Easy to use, sometimes too easy see below!


• Removable battery.


• Good quality recordings.

Bad Points:-

• It has crashed, completely locked up on me twice within 1 hour of recording.


• The pull out USB plug is on the base and stops you standing the camera up on the base.


• Too easy to delete clips. Menu is easily accessed by mis-pressing buttons.

On the whole its a great piece of kit for quick, high quality recordings of video. Looks like the software on it needs some work, a litle rough around the edges and crashes requiring a battery removal.

Phone Switchers Forum.

I'm in the process of building up posts on my new forum. It's designed to be a 'one-stop-shop' for those of you who are thinking of changing smartphones from one operating system to another.

The forum is at http://forum.phoneswitchers.com/ , please pay a visit and leave any thoughts you have if you have changed phones recently.