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Retrokit Steampunk Clock number 3!
We've skipped showing you Steampunk
clock number 2 as it's a bit boring. But Steampunk clock
number 3 is rather nice. The dial is a mere 7cm across so
we've fitted the smallest nixie tube clock we could find. The
circuits were built from a kit and fitted into the clock with some
minor modifications. We think it looks rather nice. See
www.kosbo.com for the clock kit.
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The Retrokit Steampunk Nixie Tube Long Case
Clock!
The Retrokit Steampunk clock was
recently constructed from a 1930s granddaughter clock case (suitably
treated for woodworm!) with a Polish nixie tube digital clock
movement inserted. A red acrylic panel serves as a dial cover.
We'll be making more of these.
Contact us if you're interested in buying one.
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The ZX80 limited edition prints are all
sold (see the story below for more about Retrokit art
prints). The first series of
Pepe Tozzo's limited edition prints sold out very quickly.
Series two is now available for order.
Series two is called Quattrovision and you can see what it looks
like by clicking on the image. The print is based on Pepe's
own Sinclair Microvision television.
This is a bolder creation than the ZX80
series - we expect it will sell out as quickly as the first series. You can go to the Retrokit Art
page by clicking HERE
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Retrokit Techno Art - Available Now - March 5th 2007
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Retrokit is proud to announce a series of very
limited canvas prints of photographs by Pepe Tozzo, author of
Collectable Technology (Carlton Books). Pepe is also one of
Miller's Collectables experts and has appeared on TV and Radio.
A keen photographer, many of Pepe's
photographs of technology appear in his and other writers' books.
For the first time his photos, digitally enhanced in what some may
claim to be an artistic fashion, will be available as a strictly
limited series on canvas.
The first series of ONLY FIVE canvas
prints (12x12 inches) is based on a photo of Pepe's own Sinclair
ZX80. Click on the photo to go to our art page.
Each print is signed by Pepe and
comes with a certificate showing the issue number and authenticity.
More series are in the pipeline, some will be of Sinclair
calculators and each strictly limited to only five prints - some on canvas like the
ZX80 series, some may be on vinyl and possibly other media.
Only one of the first series is left
to go. Hurry if you want to secure it. The
price of each ZX80 print is £55 which includes delivery anywhere in the
World. You can go to the Retrokit Art
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Forget the asteroids our fate is just outside the Windows! -
Feb 2 07
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Retrokit remembers life before home computers; and, of course,
before Microsoft Windows. Back in the days when a certain Mr
Gates was writing software for a box of tricks called the Altair
nobody knew what a stranglehold his later digital offspring would
have on humanity. Today our whole lives are governed by
networks of hacked-together electronic boxes running badly-written
and poorly implemented operating systems produced by a single
company. Those anti-globalisation mini-terrorists that throw
their sandals at burger joints are missing the point. We are
all at the mercy of the one and only megacorp - and we're going to
realise it fairly soon. |
Firefox is better and safer than IE
- January 27 2007
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Are you fed up with with the security
holes in Internet Explorer? Are you sick of weekly updates
downloading to your computer to plug a seemingly never-ending list of
security problems? Anti-phishing
features in Firefox 2.0 perform better than equivalent security
technologies in IE7, according to a
study commissioned by the Mozilla corporation.
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tests, performed by testing firm SmartWare and audited
by iSEC partners, looked at how each
browser responded to known phishing URLs as
identified by community anti-phishing
website Phishtank.
Firefox in its most secure
configuration blocked 81.5 per cent of the 1,040 phishing websites,
whereas IE7 blocked only 66.4 per cent. Even with the Ask Google
feature turned off, Firefox 2.0 blocked 78.9 per cent of the dodgy
domains identified by Phishtank.
In 243 instances Firefox blocked
fraudulent domains that IE allowed against 117 occasions when Firefox
allowed visits to sites IE correctly identified as fraudulent. Both
browsers failed to recognise 65 dodgy websites.
Download your copy of Firefox using the
link at the top of this story. It's FREE! |
