Archive for the ‘Hardware’ Category
New Chromebooks Overview
Posted: May 14, 2011 in HardwareTags: Chrome OS, Chromebook, Chromebooks, Google
I found this video on YouTube with more about the Samsung and Acer Chromebooks.
My first three rules of computing are backup, backup and backup. You may have heard this before? I use Carbonite a cloud backup solution that works very well but I really should have a local backup as well.
You can do podcasting or multi-track recording without the need for a mixer. If you have a good quality professional microphone (Shure SM58 or better) you can connect it directly to your computer via USB using one of two devices. The first is a USB microphone cable the SoundTech STUSBXLR10. One end is an XLR [...]
Build A Home Server
Posted: January 29, 2010 in HardwareTags: backup, home server, NAS, opensource, server, storage
As I say constantly, “The three most important maintenance task on your computer are, backup, backup and backup.” You can always restore your software or replace your computer in a worst case scenario. What you can’t do or can’t do easily is recover your data. This is what you want to spend most of effort [...]
D-Link DIR-615 Router
Posted: January 9, 2010 in HardwareTags: D-Link, Hardware, network, Networking, router
The wireless on my Netgear Wireless G router went out this week and I had to replace it. I got a D-Link DIR-615 Wireless N 300 Router this week and I can’t be more pleased. With my Netgear router I never got all of my 10Mb speed from my ISP. I never worried about it [...]
Networking Over Powerline
Posted: November 15, 2009 in HardwareTags: ethernet, Hardware, network, Networking, powerline
Do you have a cable modem in your living room but have computers in a different room as I do. I live in an apartment so drilling holes and stringing cable is out of the question. I tried using wireless with some success but it is slow and very unreliable. I dealt with this problem [...]
You could buy a HP MediaSmart Server or any of the other Windows Home Server PCs or any of the other home-server products (one being Drobo). These work great but they cost $525 and up. I am going to turn a pc I already have in to one using Ubuntu Server. Ubuntu Server is free [...]
Feb 23, 2009 I really like my a new camera. My old one was the pits! I even went back to film because of that old piece of junk. I purchaased a Canon EOS 50D digital SLR camera. It is really a significant upgrade. 15.1-megapixel CMOS sensor so you can make tremendous print with little [...]
Aardvark is a very useful Firefox extension. Powerful and user-friendly selector utility for selecting elements and doing various actions on them. It can be used for cleaning up a page prior to printing it (by removing and isolating elements) and for web development.
