Entries Tagged as 'Technology'

UI Design and Microsoft Windows

Comments   8   Date Arrow  November 1, 2008 at 12:13pm   User  by Carlos

Four days ago, Microsoft unveiled the pre-beta of Windows 7 at PDC and offered up quite a few user interface changes meant to streamline the aging operating system. What they came up with was a taskbar that mimics the styling of the KDE on Linux and further extends the broken window preview concept introduced in [...]

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Slideshow: Lenovo X200 Disassembly

Comments   0   Date Arrow  September 21, 2008 at 11:55pm   User  by Carlos

Continuing with the recent string of laptop related posts, I thought I should post a few of the disassembly photos I took of the Lenovo X200. Taking the laptop apart is rather simple - just remove the screws on the the laptop (depending on what you want to remove, you only have to unscrew certain [...]

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Apple and the Missing PowerBook Successor

Comments   0   Date Arrow  September 13, 2008 at 2:15am   User  by Carlos

“I missed you too” - on Flickr by süńdāyx

I’m disappointed with Apple. I’ve been using their machines since I was four years old and have been buying them personally for the past seven. It has been my preferred platform of choice and I’ve never been unhappy with the hardware choices available to me until now. [...]

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Benchmarking: Samsung 64GB Solid-State Disk

Comments   0   Date Arrow  September 12, 2008 at 5:43am   User  by Carlos

There has been a huge amount of hype and misinformation in the solid-state drive debate as of late and whether it’s a technology that’s ready for primetime; I recently purchased one with my newest computer and want to offer some real-world tests. The drive in question is a Samsung 64GB SATA SSD (1.8″, Model No. [...]

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Howto: Install Windows Vista from a USB Drive

Comments   0   Date Arrow  September 6, 2008 at 3:31am   User  by Carlos

Have you ever needed to install Windows on a computer that doesn’t have an optical drive? I ran into this issue recently when I needed to install Windows Vista on my newest laptop, a Lenovo ThinkPad X200, and thought it would be useful to share the rather simple process here. You can do it from [...]

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Sprint EV-DO, Mac OS X, GPS, and you.

Comments   1   Date Arrow  August 30, 2008 at 11:57pm   User  by Carlos

I’ve been a customer of Sprint’s Mobile Broadband service for quite a while and have wanted to whip up a how-to on getting it to work well on OS X for a while but never got around to it. However, since I’ve gotten intrigued with the idea of GPS, I thought it was time to [...]

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iTunes Visualizer - Seven Years Later

Comments   1   Date Arrow  August 24, 2008 at 2:42am   User  by Carlos

Many years and many software updates ago, the iTunes visualizer was a very prominent feature of the application. It was used in television ads to illustrate the power of the iMac G3 coupled with the the iTunes jukebox/CD-burning application that was miles ahead of MusicMatch and Windows Media Player. However, as the version number climbs [...]

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Windows Vista, Audio, and Network Speeds.

Comments   2   Date Arrow  August 22, 2008 at 11:00am   User  by Carlos

There seems to be a curious issue present in Windows Vista (RTM and SP1 equipped machines) where audio or video being played back in Windows Media Player will have a significantly adverse effect on network performance. In my case, every device on my network is equipped with gigabit ethernet and as a result, I get [...]

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