When reading iBooks using the Apple iPad, particularly if you are using the new iBooks Author application, it may not be immediately obvious how to navigate from an open book back to the library.
To navigate back to the Library you need to tap the open book just once which brings up a menu bar at the top of the screen with buttons for Library, Book Navigation, Notes, Screen Brightness, Zooming and Bookmarking.
You can also double-tap a particular word to highlight, define or copy a word or phrase and you can also attach notes and search for further occurrences of the phrase.
In the nicely presented box arrived the Note itself, a Samsung headset (earphones) with inline controls, a couple of different sized ear buds, a USB cable for charging and a UK plug (travel adaptor) for the USB cable, a Warranty Card, and a Quick Start guide. 
If you are looking to upgrade your computer based disk storage you should consider purchasing a pair of disks as it is always worth matching the disks and buying two at a time because it often makes mirroring your data much easier. Mirroring data simply means that copies of your files will be stored on both disks so that if one disk fails you can still access your files. There are other ways of securing your data, particularly if you have more disks available, however for this article we will focus on just two disks and disk mirroring (also known as RAID level 1).
Synology have recently announced that their XS series of NAS (Network Attached Storage) servers have received official VMware Ready certification with, as the press release says, “full support for vSphere 5, offering better flexibility, higher performance, better storage and management efficiency in VMware virtualisation platform.”
With Christmas looming and the year drawing to a close we can look forward to a bright technological start in 2012. There are a bunch of tech rumours circulating about things we might expect next year including an iPhone 5, iPad 3, new evolutions of the Xbox and Wii, Windows 8 for Desktop PCs, OLED televisions, 4G Wireless, and no doubt more changes to social networking sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter than you could shake a stick it.
Without any form of management system a hard drive enclosure offers just that – enclosed hard drives; vast amounts of storage and, in a way, that would be fine however through the implementation of an effective management interface the combined system can offer so much more – it can form the basis of a Network Attached Storage (NAS) system.
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Some time ago I wrote about the planned roll out of Smart Meters across the UK with the aim of having Smart Meters in every UK home by 2019 and in particular the impact it may have (see 
If you have been wondering what Smart Meters are all about they are a new kind of energy meter that replace existing energy meters (gas and electric) in our homes. However, these new smart meters go further than before as they also come with a remote display unit which can be placed within the home to provide real-time information, in pounds and pence, about energy usage. This display can show real-time information, cost per hour, usage over 24 hours and usage over 7 days.
The first benefit of smart meters is that instead of having to take a trip outside to the meter cupboard (or wherever else it may be located ), a quick glance at the display should provide all the information you need and one display unit will show both gas and electricity information. One of the cool features about the energy monitor display unit is the traffic light system which are an at-a-glance indicator of energy usage – a green light is ideal but head through yellow into red and there is in indicator of high energy usage. 
With access to this real-time information we can see the impact on energy usage of the equipment in our homes from our kettles and fridges to gaming systems and showers – insights into this information should help us make smarter decisions about energy usage and help identify things which make a big impact.
DarkMarket focuses heavily on the subject of credit card fraud and is a fascinating read especially as you do not have to have a particular understanding of computing or technological terms to follow the book or appreciate the subject matter. The people, or hackers as Glenny calls them, behind many of these crimes may have cool sounding online names such as Matrix001, JilSi, Iceman, and Blade however Glenny describes them as largely psychologically vulnerable male individuals who have difficulty forming relationships offline in the real world.