fordie’s blog

When purchasing software online you expect the process to go something like this:

Choose your software
Add to cart
Pay
Download Software

nice and simple & stress free. Unfortunately some companies don’t get it - Tomtom I’m looking at you.
Yesterday I decided to purchase the Tomtom maps of Western Europe in preparation for our holiday next month, so I spent [...]

On Christmas Eve Laura apologised to me because the gift she had ordered for me online over two weeks previously had failed to arrive from Dixons. When she handed me a printout on Christmas morning with a picture and the tec specs of the TomTom Go 520T that was on it’s way for me I [...]

In a recent post I talked about how I got my hands on a Vodafone V1605 for free; having had the phone for a month now I thought it made sense to talk about it in a bit more depth.

Overview:
The Vodafone V1605 is the Vodafone branded version of the HTC hermes; it’s a Windows Mobile [...]

My Vodafone contract is now at a point where I can upgrade my handset, so after a lot research I decided I was going to go for the V1605 (HTC Hermes).
I really liked the look of the v1605, My previous handset (before my current N-70) was an i-mate jam (also an HTC device) I really [...]

At the weekend I installed the Orange Live box for my in-laws. They were already on Orange broadband, and their old netgear wireless router had died so the FIL decided to take a deal from Orange & upgrade to the Orange live box.
As soon as I popped the installation CD into the PC I hit [...]