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The insides of my new computer

May 23, 2009

I am amazed at the size of the heatsink and the fan strapped on top of the Intel Core i7 processor.

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My New Birthday Present

May 17, 2009

My brother is awesome and not only because he buys me the best geeky birthday present. For my birthday this year, he bought me a new DELL XPS desktop with the latest Intel Core i7 processor. The Core i7 is a quad-core processor with hyper-threading that appear as 8 separate processors to the [...]

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Dell Adamo looks beautiful

March 16, 2009

Looks like DELL is getting ready to launch a beautiful 13-inch laptop called Adamo. Adamo is a latin word that means "to fall in love with" or "find pleasure in" and I can certainly see that after seeing the pictures that were leaked at SXSW.

Picture by Brian Solis.

More pictures on Flickr.

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Upgraded my computer – Love the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT card

October 12, 2008

I have a couple of computers at home but my primary machine is a DELL desktop running Vista. This is a dual-core machine with 4 GB of RAM but it ran sloooooooooooowwwwww. So I just upgraded the machine with a new 500w power supply and a NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT video card. [...]

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Holy Bandwidth – Take 3

August 3, 2008

I just upgraded my existing Road Runner turbo connection to their Business Class service and I now have 15Mbps downstream and 2 Mbps upstream along with QOS to give my packets priority over the rest of the regular Roadrunner customers.

Prior to this upgrade, I was getting 15Mbps downstream and 1 Mbps upstream and so the [...]

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Netflix Player by Roku – Internet TV done right

June 30, 2008

I just want to say that if the future of Internet TV is anything like the Netflix Player by Roku, we are going to be just fine. I was one of the lucky ones who ordered the Netflix Player by Roku right away and have had the opportunity to play with it for the [...]

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Once You Go Dual, You Never Go Back!

February 2, 2007

It's true – Once you go dual, you'll never go back! I've been running with a dual monitor setup for a couple of months now and I can't believe how I got by without a dual setup. In the picture below, I've got my 2nd monitor relegated as my TV monitor [...]

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Put Your Linksys Router on Steroids

January 28, 2007

This is something I have been meaning to do for many years now but I finally took advantage of the Christmas break to put my Linksys Wireless Router (WRT54G) on steroids. Since I was upgrading my Windows machine from XP to Vista and my Linux machine from Dapper to Edgy (Ubuntu), I figured why [...]

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Sony UMPC – Beautiful, expensive paperweight?

August 14, 2006

Over the weekend, my friend Charlie Lu was able to get his hands on the Sony and Samsung UMPC. After getting some hands-on time, here are some of Charlie's comments on the UMPC's:

Resolution is so high – 1028×600. The "hello from sf" message you see on the screen – I wrote it in 50-point font.
Having [...]

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New PC while I wait for Vista Tablet

June 5, 2006

I finally broke down and ordered a new PC to replace my aging DELL desktop and Pentium-M laptops. What I really want is a smoking dual-core Tablet PC that will run Vista but got tired of waiting and so I've decided to get a desktop that will let me do the heavy lifting while I [...]

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EVDO – How I love thee!

April 3, 2006

So I'm stuck here in Kansas City airport on my way to San Francisco and I not that upset as I have my trusty Sprint EVDO card with me and I'm getting an average of 1 MB download speed. Who needs WiFi when EVDO gives you all the bandwidth you need and it's almost [...]

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Avvenu Does Rocks – Sharing your data made easy

February 24, 2006

I first read about Avvenu on Russell Beattie's blog a couple of months ago.  In his blog entry, Russell looks at Orb, SoonR and Avvenu for remote-access services and ends up selecting Avvenu. Read his blog for more details on how he ends up picking Avvenu, which he describes as the easiest, simplest, yet most [...]

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I want the Broadband EVDO Router

January 30, 2006

I was just reading Scoble's blog entry that talks about EVDO and his experiences and one of the entries in the comment caught my eye. David Rupp pointed out the Kyocera KR1 Broadband EVDO Router that has built In WiFi and basically rebroadcasts EVDO over WiFi (using 802.11g). In addition, it offers 4 [...]

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