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As you see, my recent reviews have covered several different types of LED torch. The design of these is getting better all the time. The cheapest ones tend to use standard LED epoxy packages with no reflector or a simple flat reflector made of aluminised plastic, sometimes there will be a small lamp with a…

A few weeks ago I reviewed the small handheld Energizer “Hard Case” 2 cell AA swivel head LED torch. Given I also own a Cateye EL-530 LED cycle headlight, it was only ever going to be a matter of time before I decided to compare them, although in fact this is the first time I…

As I noted previously we are starting to see LEDs become more widespread in Energizer’s product range, a good trend considering the brand’s ubiquity and the advantages of high power white LEDs. For the purposes of this article I am comparing this battery powered lantern with a more traditional style, a fluorescent Energizer model as…

Following on from this morning’s post I checked out a couple of GUI based tools from Microsoft: RichCopy is an internal MS tool they released to the community a while back. It works very well – when it works. When I used it, it crashed numerous times – apparently it can’t handle long paths at…

School sysadmins everywhere will know this problem. You go to back up or copy some folder where pupils have been storing their files. The error you get is “the path is too long” and you check and find the path is longer than 256 characters. Now it so happens that many older APIs in Windows…

When we first started to use Ghost, it used to run on MS-DOS or PC-DOS and it was just a 16 bit package. I never tried it in anything other than a desktop context. At that time our servers were not in my area of responsibility for set up and install. Later on I got…

Since the advent of white LED technology several years ago, I have waited for torch manufacturers to come to grips with the advantages of LEDs in high efficiency and long life, among others. Eveready-Energizer have held out for a long time with their existing bulb based products and it is a pleasant surprise to see…

Well, DVD Architect did a superb job of the DVD, incredibly simple to send the completed project from VMS to it in order to put the DVD together, especially simple with the automation of creating a menu from the markers I had previously put into the project in Vegas. It came together very quickly and…

Last month I wrote about my experiences with Premiere Elements 4 and how useless a piece of software it has turned out to be. At the time I was struggling to be able to find another piece of software that had similar functionality and so forth, until I discovered there is a cut down version…

As part of the march onward towards Windows 7, I turned my Windows 7 RC box into a dual boot system with Vista as the other operating system. Normally you’d install Vista first and then 7, but I already had 7 on the box and didn’t want to reinstall it. So I installed Vista on…