Neerav Bhatt's blog: news, analysis and reviews about clean green options for Australian transportation & homes
The author of Putting Content Online: A Practical Guide for Libraries, Mark Jordan states that the book “is aimed at people who are developing collections of digitized and born-digital documents according to standard library principles, with a focus... Read More
Weasel words are the words of the powerful, the treacherous and the unfaithful, spies, assassins and thieves. Bureaucrats and ideologues love them. Tyrants cannot do without them. The Newspeak of Orwell’s 1984 is an invention, but also a satire on... Read More
The DQT (Driver Qualification Test) is the final test for new drivers in New South Wales to pass before they can progress from a P2 driver licence to a full unrestricted Silver or Gold licence. After I passed the DQT I thought I’d publish all the... Read More
What would you say if I told you that General Motors (GM) created an electric car for the Californian market that was easy to use, looked great and was so efficient that it made the Toyota Prius look like a petrol guzzler … and then repossessed... Read More
I plan to connect my mp3 player through the headphone jack to my sound system or set of computer speakers … how can I do this? – anonymous question from the internet Firstly you need a home stereo system with an auxiliary (aux) RCA input... Read More
I recently purchased a Philips Coolskin 6707 Mens Electric Shaver to replace my old Philips HQ5812 Mens Electric Shaver whose batteries were running flat and cutters were getting blunt after over 3 years usage. {{lls}} The main benefit of the Coolskin... Read More
When I started looking for a USB Flash drive to purchase my key requirements were: Fast with true USB 2.0 transfer speeds Reliable enough to withstand being dropped quite often and be water proof Not too expensive According to an interview of... Read More
The Digicrystal 9000PVR Digital Set Top Box isn’t sold any more My newest review is of the DVX-555U SD Digital Set Top Box (STB) PVR The Digicrystal 9000 PVR set top box is the perfect product for most Australians who watch Free to Air TV... Read More
I recently purchased a 1 GB 133 speed Corsair SD card (model CMFSD133-1GB) because of my frustration with the slow write speed of my old Sandisk 1 Gb 32X speed SD card when taking burst (multiple consecutive) photos of moving objects such as wildlife.... Read More
{{lls}} I visited Broome for a week in late October and stayed at a backpackers hostel. Although it wasn’t summer yet temperatures were mid 30’s to 40 degrees celsius. Broome is a pearling and tourist town in the Kimberley in the far north... Read More