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i Would Pad Gently Across The Pond

By Steve Hill

I have been looking at the Apple iPad and think how useful it would be to buy in to the latest sensation from Jobs and co.

I have many blogs to write and have daily news feeds to write - this would free me up from carting around a laptop, giving me greater freedom.

I use Macs and PCs, and I will not get into an argument about which is best as they both have their strengths and weaknesses believe me, I have an iPhone and love it, I have had iPods since they first arrived, but I am not an Apple maniac (like some are within the Enigin fold).

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HD Crisp and Clear

By Steve Hill

I have been enjoying the World Cup at home in HD, it has been crisp, sharp and clear and worth the cost.

But like all these after awhile I hardly noticed, that is until I went to a friends house to watch a match on SD television - suddenly the fuzziness became apparent and I wanted to get back to my HD screen.

By the same token later on I saw several games on my daughters older CRT, traditional tube, telly which was not at all bad - after all it was designed for SD broadcasts. My mates telly was a top brand LCD and was just awful, but my daughters 10 year old telly was great.

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Devotees of Fresh Apples

It has been overload time recently for geeks, full on geeks and those who have a tendency to geekiness, which covers the majority of Enigin’s staff, as we get upgrades on so many products, particularly Apple.

Apple have been on overload recently, with the long awaited sales of the i{ad and now the announcement about the iPhone 4 - and just after I got my upgrade to the 3Gs!!

I like Apple products, they are well designed and generally work, I use Macs, iPods and an iPhone and have an eye on the iPad but I do find the religious fervor of many Apple devotees a bit much.

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2020 is the Future for Enigin and us All

I have been looking at some gadgets of late - there are so many now that it is difficult to filter through them all.

A part form gadgets of course we have the heavy weights like Apple’s iPad and all the gizmos that Google seem to be producing.

On one trawl across the web I kept on seeing predictive technology, what we are supposed to have in the future - all these amazing things that we look at in wonder but are often forgotten about or laughed at in the future.

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Rotten Apple delays Enigin video

ENIGIN is Apple friendly - in fact that is an understatement, Enigin are Apple evangelists.

When I first started working with Enigin there were just one or two Macs, in the shape of Mac Books within the company.

Gradually others started to acquire Mac Books, then Apple iPhones. Soon developers and designers started to use Macs and now they saeem to outnumber PCs.

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Take Enigin With You

Mobile technology has entwined itself into our lives that we have become inseparable from our mobile/cell phones.

This can have a disadvantage, you are never unreachable and the majority of people seem unable to “not answer” a ringing handset. The advantage is that it frees us up from being confined to one location - we can now work away from our desks in many ways - not just being able to field phone calls on the move.

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Enigin’s Technology

By Steve Hill

I spent several days working on the Enigin PLC stand at the SustainabilityLive! exhibition in the UK in mid April and technology played a big part.

Amongst other technologies we had on display a demonstration of the currently developing Renewable Energy Public Display.

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What Energy Are You Using Right Now?

KEEPING an eye on your energy use is vital if you want to save energy - seems rather obvious but in reality can be harder to do than say.

For instance how much energy are you using at this very moment?

If you are still on a traditional power meter apart from seeing how fast that wheel spins round and the numbers change you cannot tell how much energy you are using, not until you get your bill, which is either weeks or even months later.

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“Beam Me Up Scotty”

By Steve Hill

My Daughter, Vicky, is in the final year of here university course, Digital Art and Technology, and as part of her dissertation on the “Wants and Needs of Mobile Phones” she is dealing with the history of mobile communication.

I was talking to her about this particular section and as we talked I mentioned how things had changed over a relatively few years and science fiction was now fact.

This conversation coincided with our viewing of the classic 80s movie Back To The Future - which ends up with Doc Brown returning from 2015 with a flying car and some sort of domestic nuclear power source on the back of his Delorean!

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I Am The Web Fox At Enigin

By Steve Hill

I always knew I was a bit of a fox and now it has been confirmed by the BBC!

What animal are you?

I am talking about web animals, based on your web behaviour - are you a Fox or a Hedgehog?

Although it is a bit of fun there is serious science behind the tests to see which animal you are.

Initially they thought of just Foxes and Hedgehogs but have not added more animal types that match your web behaviour.

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