Archive for May, 2009
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Wednesday, May 27th, 2009TigerDirect is offering an amazing deal on off-lease HP machines, only $139.97! They already come with Windows XP Professional - all you have to do is add a monitor or LCD, and you are SET!
NOTE: These deals through TigerDirect never last long - usually 24-48 hours or less before they are sold out …get […]
Astronauts can’t get DVD-watching software to work
Saturday, May 23rd, 2009[ originally article posted on MSNBC on 05/23/09 ]
Sorry, I just thought this was humorous …I deal with clients every day who have such problems. After imaging the frustration of being an astronaut who can’t just run to Best Buy and “get another one”, it made me laugh
Fixing Hubble easier than watching DVDs
Shuttle […]
Wherefore art thou, tech support?
Sunday, May 10th, 2009[ reprinted from a Popular Science article originally posted on 08/20/08 ]
Being a tech consumer is a treacherous endeavor these days. Installing software, upgrading a piece of hardware or even just plugging in a new peripheral is a pursuit wrought with danger. That’s because, as a man named Murphy has us conditioned to believe, something […]
Forget the CPU…buy a better graphics card
Sunday, May 10th, 2009[ reprinted from a Popular Science article originally posted on 04/10/08 ]
Video processors do more to boost speed than main processors, says nVidia
OK, they are not the most objective source, but graphics processor manufacturer nVidia does make a pretty convincing argument for spending more money on a computer’s graphics card and less on the […]
Free your media - instantly …and wirelessly!
Saturday, May 9th, 2009[ reprinted from a Popular Science article originally posted on 01/09/09 ]
A promising new piece of software beams your computer to the big screen in seconds, no cables necessary
Someday soon there’ll be a chicken in every pot and a centralized media center in every home. Till then, we’re stuck with what we’ve got; some companies […]
Build a wireless audio streamer
Saturday, May 9th, 2009[ reprinted from a Popular Science article originally posted 07/14/08 ]
With a DIY audio streamer, you can send your favorite tunes wirelessly from your computer to other rooms
Here’s the scenario: You have a thousand MP3 music files sitting on your home computer—which is great when you’re actually sitting at your computer but a lot […]
Defeating laptop theft …with technology
Saturday, May 9th, 2009[ reprinted from Newsweek article originally posted on 04/29/09 ]
When a thief stole my laptop, I was determined to get it back. Oh yeah, and seek a little electronic revenge along the way.
I take really long showers, the kind of shower that single-handedly depletes my hot-water heater. I know it’s terribly selfish, from an environmental […]
Top 10 computer viruses in history
Saturday, May 9th, 2009Here is a great but useless article on the top 10 computer viruses of all time. It’s an interesting read, at least, to see just how much the computer “virus” has evolved over the life of modern-day computing. Enjoy
Can I recover deleted files?
Saturday, May 9th, 2009[ reprinted from Popular Science article originally posted 05/23/08 ]
So you finally finished writing your novel and then somehow accidentally dumped it? It happens. Luckily, when you delete a file from your computer’s trash bin, it’s actually just marked for deletion. That means it can be overwritten on your hard drive by other data, but […]
Today, dirt - tomorrow, quantum computing
Saturday, May 9th, 2009[ reprinted from Popular Science article originally posted 06/30/08 ]
Natural impurities in silicon could lead the way to the fastest computers ever imagined
Much like cold fusion, nano-computing always seems ten years off. The years go by, technology advances, but the goal doesn’t seem to get any closer. Last week, however, a team of Purdue […]