Wednesday, 4 January 2023

Draytek 2860 (etc.) and the EE Osprey (original) as a USB modem

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  This is a slightly confusing thing to setup. The Draytek 2860 (and later similar models) allows for a 3G (or more usefully now 4G) modem t...
Friday, 22 July 2022

Yahoo (and I guess AOL) email with Outlook 2021, Thunderbird etc.

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 I noticed that with Thunderbird there seemed to be a 10,000 email limit on some of my accounts (I have a very old AOL account and a fairly ...
Sunday, 12 June 2022

VW Polo 2014 DAB reception problems

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 I have a 2014 VW Polo with a factory fitted AM/FM/DAB radio. A few months back the DAB radio became less sensitive. There doesn't seem ...
Saturday, 14 May 2022

A tale of two soundcards: Tascam US-32 & Yamaha AG-03

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 The rise of podcasting has been followed by manufacturers producing computer sound hardware specifically aimed at podcasters. Tascam have p...
Saturday, 12 October 2019

TuneBlade - The Windows way in to AirPlay

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I like AirPlay. I have a couple of Apple Airport Express units connected to HiFi units and use AirPlay to take audio from iOS devices to t...
Saturday, 7 September 2019

The "Maplin" LAN Disk and Windows 10

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My first steps into Network Attached Storage (NAS) drives were the Maplin LAN disk. I've moved on to "greater" devices since...
Tuesday, 27 August 2019

The ( Roland ) Edirol UA-25 and Windows 10

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There are times when I discover something in the process of getting a piece of technology to work and feel the need to spread the news, thi...