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Posts Tagged ‘Hardware’

The very best technology 2008 had to offer

Between barbecues and golfing this weekend, I took a few minutes to drop some new hardware into my criminally-neglected PC. It’s been some time since I’ve added any parts to it and I’d gotten the bug recently when prod and I started playing Dawn of War II. StarCraft II got released last week and, better [...]

the iPad experience

I got an iPad. Shocking! I’d like to say that deb (who has some good app recommendations here) made me get an iPad, or that it was forced on me but that’s not really the case. I wanted one despite my efforts to not want one.
The iPad represents a shift towards a kind of computing [...]

Lian-Li PC-V600

About a month ago, I upgraded the graphics card in my PC to a BFGTech 8800GT. I’d been experiencing some glitches on my two year old Nvidia 7900, probably due to the Zalman cooler I added to it not providing the VRAM with enough heat transfer combined with not enough air circulation in the case. [...]

keyboard music

I’ve been struggling with my Logitech keyboard and mouse combo for months now. Maybe years. The good people at Logitech make some nice products, but unfortunately, they can’t write Mac drivers to save themselves. The Logitech Control Center is a well-documented piece of shit and I’ve suffered long enough. Most recently, every time I load [...]

Xbox 360 Replacement + AAC iPod Support = @#%^&!!

The past few nights, I’ve been trying to hook up my iPod to my Xbox to get some LCD Soundsystem out of my speakers while playing the new 3D Ultra Miniputt on the Xbox Live Arcade. This is usually a pretty trivial thing. The past few nights however, I’ve been plagued by the inability to [...]

blackberry 8800 Xbox 360 mashup

My shit is finally coming together here. Yesterday afternoon, after weeks of watching the Rogers website and pinging friends and people Who Know Stuff, I finally secured a BlackBerry 8800. As proof of it’s awesomeness, I am composing this article on it. I have yet to take it for a drive in my car to [...]

it did it again

I thought I’d take a moment out of my busy day to whine and moan about the three red lights on my Xbox360. This is not the first time I’ve been disappointed by this hardware. To make matters worse, this is about 14 months after the first one’s replacement arrived putting it just outside of [...]

New Keyboard! Logitech S530

Dria and I have been griping about our keyboards lately. Call me a sucker, but I’ve been suffering with the Apple Keyboards for awhile now, often to the detriment of my typing/spelling. As nice as they are to look at (when new) and compact for a full-size keyboard, they have a fairly awful typing feel [...]

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