by Niklas Waller on December 15, 2011
in Technology
A few days ago I got some new toys – an iPad 2 and a Buffalo Terastation NAS Server.
The iPad 2 is something that I am very happy with of course. Right now I am only using it for fun but the idea is also to be able to see how apps and websites that I develop will look on it. It looks nice and is highly functional. Better that my expectations and I have really waited a long time. I am very curious about iPad 3 though but I couldn’t wait for it.
The Buffalo TeraStation ES NAS 8TB is something that I am quite satisfied with as well. It contains a raid system with 4 disks á 2 TB. It was quite easy to setup and provides lots of functionality. The Print Server was up and running in no time. Itunes the same way once you understand how it all works. All videos of different kinds have been added to the NAS server and these are now streamed to the iMac in the livingroom using XMBC with no performance loss at all. I can also set up webaccess or FTP for access from anywhere. There is also backup functionality that can be scheduled. Even the iPad can access the NAS-server although this is a special case that I will tell you more about next.
A NAS-server makes life more structured and easy for the company but also for private matters – especially if you’re a tech geek.
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by Niklas Waller on September 11, 2008
in Technology
My first cellphone was a . The year was 1995, it was late summer and I was about to start the military service which would last for 17 months. I remember the excitement over this brick. Well it was not extremely big. Its ancestors were much bigger. Still it was very big, ugly and clumsy if you think back. But at the time it could not be better. Here are pictures of the model I found on .
Nowadays I actually have two, a Sony Ericsson w880i and an Apple iPhone. These two are very different from each other but they both have rather complex functionality and serves my needs. The is very thin and is a light-weight phone. I use it mainly as a walkman with a wireless bluetooth headset connected to it.
The is a rare and new experience. It is a bit bigger but has a completely new user experience which is very appealing. Together with this I like that it uses the wireless network that I configure it to use whenever it is in reach. There is also an extensive development going on for iPhone applications which makes it interesting. What I don’t like about this is that I can not connect my Sony Ericsson bluetooth headset to it. It seems as I have to buy the iPhone headset to make it work. But since this headset is only for one ear I can only use it to listen to phone calls and not music.
I have had quite a few phones in between and one can say that these two most recent are definately very different from Motorola International 5200. It has been a great evolution in 13 years and just imagine what will happen in the 10 next to come.
What do you think? Bigger, smaller, thinner, thicker, implanted in your head?
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