February 2010
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Update 2
Hey folks! I am actually writing this post from my iPod touch, gotta love technology. On other, more important news, I think I will “renovating” my blog to prepare for the podcast I will be creating with a good friend of mine, @nickrobin . On that note, please dont expect any posts in the next few days due to this massive overhaul. Everything should be back up and running during the...
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New Idea
Hey everyone! Lately Ive been thinking, why do people read blogs? And why do they take the time to read what exactly you write word for word? I know for a fact that I would prefer just bulleted main points about the given topic unless it was a rant or something descriptive. So, from now on when I talk about tech news, all I am going to do is bullets, thus, making the posts shorter, sweeter, and...
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Google Hacking Attacks Mastermind Found!
Hey! As of yesterday the actual hacker behind the google hacking has been discovered. No name has been made public but as told by gizmodo, the hacker was a “freelance security consultant” straight out of China. The way he hacked google was by using a security hole in internet explorer 6, that’s right, 6! So the fact he lives in China and the fact the Chinese government had so...
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Robot Teachers?! YES PLEASE
Hey folks! Today, while browsing though my rss feed, I can across this story from engadget. Apparently by 2012, if the world doesn’t end (hopefully it won’t), 400 pre-schools in South Korea will be equipped with robot teachers. That’s right everyone, the age of robots are upon us. It is said that these robot teachers won’t actually run the class but provide assistance in...
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School Uses Webcams To Spy On Students?! - Part...
Hey everyone! While reading some recent news I came across the latest updates in the topic about the high school in Philadelphia that used a students webcam to “spy” on him from home. It turns out, after the FBI became involved, that the school has done this 42 times over the past 2 years! The FBI is looking to what exactly happened and is trying to figure out whether or not any...
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School Uses Webcams To Spy On Students?!
Hey folks. While reading through some articles on the internet, i stumbled across this post from gizmodo and techspot about a high school in Philadelphia that used the built in laptop’s webcam to spy on students while they are at home. Yes, they are school issued laptops, but does that mean what you do at home is your schools business? The administration of the high school told the parents...
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Windows 7 Driver Signature Enforcement
Hello once again ladies and gents! Today I will be discussing another important problem in my tech-world, which can also be a part two to my netgear wg311v3 problem post. I left off talking about finding a 64 bit driver for my wireless card. More or less I found drivers from Marvell, the company who makes the chipset for the netgear wireless card, that sort of worked. The only problem was that...
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Netgear Wg311v3 Problems
Hey again everyone! I think im going to discuss a problem that I have been having with my internet, more specifically my wireless adapter. So would you like to know what really bothers me? When a company (Netgear), makes an extremely functional and relatively inexpensive product (Wg311v3 Wireless Adapter), and decides to only support the product for a little while (Windows 7 64-bit...
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Microsoft vs Apple
Hey Everyone, I guess its time for me to explain my stand on the apple vs microsoft controversy. This will most likely be quite a long post so this is all I will be posting for today. So without further adieu, here we go. I feel that both companies are great and important figures in the world of technology. Both originated from each other and both share many things in common. This is why I feel...
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Windows Phone 7 Series
Hey again everyone. Browsing the web today I realized that the windows phone 7 series got announced in Barcelona, Spain today. Steve Ballmer and the microsoft gang showed off this new phone and for the most part I think its going to be a serious competitor to the iphone. Here are 2 videos from 2 of youtubes best tech reviewers discussing the windows phone.
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My Samsung Rant
Hey Everyone. Here comes the first rant of this blog. First, a little background. This whole event took place from around 5 days after my birthday (May 1st) until the later part of July, and the monitor was the Samsung Touch Of Color 22”. SOOOO here is that rant.
So a week into owning this outstanding monitor i notice a small dot in the center of my screen. At first i considered it a stuck...
Hannspree Hannsnote RAM Increase
Heylo again everyone. I have a little something to show you. Today out of sheer boredom I decided to take some RAM out of my old Dell Inspiron 1501 and add it to my Hannspree Hannsnote. I have a picture or two for those who dont know where the RAM slots are on the Hannsnote and where some other parts are on it. Enjoy
So to open the bottom you have to remove all the screws. In this picture I...
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My Setup
Hello once again. As promised, here is a picture of my setup. Eventually I’ll make a video describing it all but here is a quick overview. So from left to right we have my dell inspiron 1501 sitting on the top shelf of that little stack of shelves. Under that is my hp deskjet f2120 all-in-one. Next to that is my hannspree hannsnote netbook. To the right of that is my logitech dinovo...
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First Post
Hey everyone. I guess this is my first post. Believe me there are many more to come but here I’d like to mention a few things. 1. PLEASE SEND ME QUESTIONS!!! I need to get content somehow! 2. Expect posts a couple of times a week 3. Depending how this blog goes there will be much more to come 4. I have sooo many ideas and not enough of me to work with, so if anyone is interested in helping...