My friend David just sent me an interesting email about the Apple MacBook and its hidden wireless capabilities. From David:
This is funny. Apparently I can upgrade my MacBook to add the 802.11n wireless standard for $2, no joke. Apparently Apple has been shipping their computers with hidden wireless n capabilities. They had [...]

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Over the past few weeks, I’ve been working on an extensive project for my Aunt (there will be more details on that one later) and have been putting my lovely computer through the paces. I must say, the beastly Core2Quad definitely gets work done! I would like two more gigs of ram, but thats for [...]

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I’ve been well weary of Microsoft’s newest iteration of Windows as Vista, and have refused to install it on any of my personal machines. Recently, I rebuilt a system for my cousin that consisted of an AMD Athlon 64 x2 4800+, 4GB ram, and sported a GeForce 8600 256MB video card. I thought that such [...]

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Over Thanksgiving break, I worked (as some of you might know) at a local computer store. It just so happened that I have been thinking about looking for a new laptop to replace my aging (and rather crappy) Mercer model, and one of the other technicians mentioned that he had a laptop he’d be willing [...]

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Don’t know if anyone has noticed lately, but it seems Google is handing out an early Christmas present to its’ beloved users. The rate of increase of storage space has increased drastically - after hovering below 3 GB for the past year or so, Gmail accounts now have 5000 MB and counting - rapidly. In [...]

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As you may (or may not) know, I do IT work at a small local school. When I am not busy solving teachers’ problems, I am tasked with performing various maintenance tasks on these computers. Almost every system that I deal with runs Windows 2000 (the rest run XP or 2003 Server) and these are [...]

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A while back, a post was written mentioning the ever-present danger of crashing a hard driving and losing all of your most precious files. In the past week or so, I have noticed that my computer has decided it would rather think for itself than do what I command. Actually, it is showing signs of [...]

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We have all heard of our share of open-source software, now this company plans on revolutionizing the electronics industry with open-source hardware. In a discussion with our friends from Engadget (we wish they were our friends), Bug Labs describes how they will provide young (or old) designers with a kit containing a small Linux-based [...]

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