Monthly Archives: November 2009

Portable VoWLAN: A portable voice over wireless local area network for mobile learning

Screen shots Description The Portable VoWLAN Toolkit is a battery-powered wireless local area network, optimised for voice and video data. Developed for use in university geology field courses, the toolkit provides a 802.11g WiFi network, a VoIP telephony server, and … Continue reading

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Nokia LD-3W with Ricoh Caplio 500SE

We’ve just tried a Nokia LD-3W bluetooth GPS dongle with the Ricoh Caplio 500SE camera we’ve been using for taking photographs – and it rocks. The LD-3W paired with the Ricoh bluetooth really easily (using the default PIN of 0000), … Continue reading

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Ubuntu 9.10 and Bluetooth audio.

Following the release of the new 9.10 ‘Karmic Koala’ version of Ubuntu, we installed it on one of the Asus 901s, trying out a new configuration of all ext4 disk partitions and no swap partition. Discovering that the ‘Netbook Remix’ … Continue reading

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Cheap IP cameras: the Edimax IC-3010WG

A much cheaper solution for IP video than the Axis Q7401, the Edimax IC-3010WG network camera is only ยฃ80 from use-IP.co.uk. For your money, you get a white plastic camera with a choice of wired or wifi network connections with … Continue reading

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