Tag Archive for 'gadgets'
The functional, half-functional and now-defunct gadgets accumulated over the years has given rise to a tangle of wires that is getting impossible to control. It’s as if the overwhelming wire mess has got a life of its own and its entire dust-hogging, cobweb-gathering being is only aimed at making life difficult for me. Plugging in […]
Here is some good news. Last week I took some time out for the laptop. Honestly, it was time to fix it or get rid off it! My efforts reaped good results. The laptop is kicking ass now!
It is no secret that my laptop, a 5 year old Acer with a meagre […]
As my weekend plans were foiled, thanks to an unscrupulous ticket agent in my college neighbourhood, and I stayed back, I had to buy my phone in Siliguri. Good that I was able to rope in gadget guru John-da in my buying expedition. Before anything else, we had a Noboborsho brunch of […]
The fact that my gadgets have turned old has been gnawing at me for quite some time! My phone, an entry-level Sony Ericsson smartphone, is like 2 years old and I have made good use of it, squeezed every last drop of functionality out of it; I believe it has served its purpose well and […]
Add B.R. Ambedkar’s birthday to the Bengali New Year, throw in a Saturday and a Sunday and wow! you get a good enough excuse for a short break! As it turns out I made perfect use of this recipe for holiday and got back home in this scorching Kolkata heat. […]
Last Saturday I accompanied a classmate of mine to buy a desktop PC for his brother who got into engineering this year from a shop I know here in Siliguri. It was an assembled system with an AMD 64-bit dual-core processor at its heart. The motherboard was from ASUS with 128 MB onboard graphics. Other […]
Today I bought a Western Digital portable hard drive. With a capacity of 160 GB, it can address my on-the-move storage needs which include collecting photographs of slides and specimens of histopathology, notes of forensic lectures, forensic specimen photos, slideshow presentations etc etc. Actually these days most of the departments in our college have […]