If you are involved in installing data, voice or video cabling then you won’t be disappointed by Data, Voice, and Video Cabling by Jim Hayes and Paul Rosenberg.
Jim Hayes, as we’ve recommended before, also has a couple of online tutorials available. Well worth a look!
The book gives a nice overview of the various technologies involved [...]

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Some of you may have noticed a name change. This blog is now called The Tech Teapot. Why? Well, we are pretty obsessed with tea
We make nice steaming pots of tea at least three times a day. Great for team building!
Our current brew is Waitrose Kenya large leaf tea. Loose leaf tea of [...]

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You know how hot carbon footprints, recycling and energy efficiency are right now, well Computacenter are introducing the Green Electronics Council’s EPEAT system, that stands for the snappily titled “Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool System” a tool designed to help identify the environmental friendliness of IT equipment. Based on a system of 23 criteria (I’ve [...]

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To complement OPENXTRA’s range of Test-Um and Psiber cable and network test tools we are really pleased to add Agilent FrameScope, FrameScope Pro and WireScope Pro. These tools are top-notch fast professional tools for CAT6/7 copper and fibre (prefer the english spelling) installation and certification. What’s best about this range is that once you have [...]

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Just a quick announcement to say that there is a new version of the HotSpot SDK (version 3.1.1) available to download. It contains a few bug fixes, the major being a fix in how the SDK handles attaching to a sensor that aint there!
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You’re probably getting a bit bored of me announcing new features on the e-commerce system. I promise this will be the last one for a while. I’m off on my mini summer holiday now.
The product configurator tool has now been rolled out to the Sensatronics E16 and EM1.
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I must announce, with much sorrow, the sad loss of our first tea pot.
It wasn’t a fancy tea pot, nor was it a particularly good tea pot. But it was the first OPENXTRA tea pot, so it has a special place in our hearts.

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In our continuous, never ending quest to make your life easier, we have introduced the product comparison feature to the manageable power switch and telephone tester categories.
The comparison feature will be rolled out to the rest of the site over the next couple of months or so. Just thought you’d like to know
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There is now a door open/closure probe available with the Sensatronics range of temperature and environment monitors. It works by using a magnetic contact which gives different values when together and apart. The user can then be notified when doors are opened and the server room or sensitive area accessed. This device will guard against [...]

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As mentioned on Tuesday, I am happy to announce the availability of a product configurator for the Sensatronics E4.
The E4 page now has a Config and Buy button. When pressed you go through to the E4 product configurator page (the bottom image). There you can select the product options that best suit you. You can [...]

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