Archive for the 'Computer' Category

03 Jun

Printer from the Power Company

It wasn’t completely free if I remember right, but they did cover 75% of the replacement cost. A number of years ago there was a power surge at work and it killed my receipt printer. One of the girls called the power company to complain and they verified that a surge had taken [...]

08 May

Windows 7 Starter

So we just bought a netbook with Windows 7 Starter on it  – we are so used to our Windows Vista in our old netbook – we find that the Starter comes with limitations.  You see you can’t even change it’s wallpaper for one and you can only run concurrent applications on a PC at [...]

05 Apr

Free Tech Support

We received a call from someone asking for tech support for his computer he had just bought a few days ago. Well, of course – we must help if you had bought it a few days ago – hell! even if you caught a virus after a few days – we will still [...]

23 Mar

Information Security

These days with everything being computerized it’s both wonderful and scary at the same time. You can do your banking and pay your bills from the comfort of your computer chair, you can book movie tickets in advance, in some places you can even renew your license online. This level of convenience brings [...]

04 Jul

iPod Lego Speakers

Coolest gadget for any ipod user and specially designed for the 4th generation of iPod touch users. As you can see this speakers has gotta be inspired by Lego. And at $42 each, pretty steep but can be a traveling comfort for those who travels a lot. I know a friend bought [...]

17 Jun

Mobile Mouse

Wireless mouse is the in thing in our store and the wife would love one of this when it comes out in August by Microsoft. The Mobile mouse 6000 was recently released in conjunction with a similar 5000 model. Both use BlueTrack and are comfortably sized without being too bulky to cart around. The [...]

02 Dec

WoW – Scroll of Resurrection

Thanks to the World of Warcraft Scroll of Resurrection I get to play free for 10 days, on my main account, to see if I find the game interesting enough again. If an account has been inactive for at least 90 days, it can be resurrected by someone with an active account. This [...]

17 Sep

My PC needs a boost

I installed Hellgate London again at work the other day since it was a pretty slow night. Within minutes I realized why I had uninstalled it in the first place, it’s a little choppy. Especially in ‘towns’. And if I have to alt-tab out to ring up a sale it takes forever [...]

10 Jul

Laptop

Both me and the wife have been considering getting rid of our clunky old desktops and replacing them with notebook computers instead. It would make sense for the wife more so than for me since she just uses it for internet, pictures and movies. We could sell of both her home and work [...]

25 Jun

Hellgate London

I’ve been hearing a lot lately about how Hellgate London didn’t turn out as good as people had hoped. “It was fun for a while”, “I regret paying for a lifetime sub”, that sort of thing. Up until now I hadn’t even tried the game, being too busy with the 360 and not [...]

22 May

Saga

I’m up to level 7 now in Saga and the level 7 quests I have access to are starting to kick my ass. I chose the ‘War’ nation which is populated mostly by orcs. Now I don’t know what the best wrinkle cream on the market is these days, but damn if these [...]

22 May

Gaming on Multiple Computers

I mostly game at home on my xbox 360, lately anyway, I used to be mostly into PC games but for the last few months I haven’t found much that I felt like playing. I did start playing Saga recently though, and since the requirements aren’t super high I copied it onto my flash [...]

10 May

LiveViewGPS

It’s one thing to be able to use a GPS to see where something has been, but it’s even cooler to be able to tell where something is. Right now. In real time. There are so many uses for a live gps tracking system in today’s world. Find your stolen car, [...]

11 Apr

Discount Cables

Cables cost a fortune, typically, it’s one of the few items that electronics stores actually make good money on. My last trip through Staples in search of an HDMI cable would have set me back $80, but I know that’s retarded so I hit up the smaller computer stores instead and picked one up [...]