Hewlett Packard is one of the most prominent manufacturers of notebook computers today, and any trip to Best Buy will make that abundantly clear. Well, as of this writing, one of the notebook PCs they have on sale right now at Best Buy is the HP Pavilion DV6000. I picked one up a couple months [...]
I was just recently in the market for a new digital camera to replace my wife’s old Sony digital cam. The world of digital photography has advanced quite a bit and the number of options out there is truly staggering. It is to the point where it is hard to shop for a digital camera [...]
USB flash drives are convenient little gadgets. I remember the days when we were using 1.44 MB floppy drives to move things around. What a pain those were! The capacity was pitiful, giving rise to utilities designed to split up a single file among multiple floppies. Then CDs became the norm. CDs offer much higher [...]
A lot of us today use notebook computers. In fact, these days I find myself using my laptop more than my desktop PC. Laptops are convenient and, in most cases, every bit as powerful as their desktop counterparts. But, let’s look at the name: LAP TOP. In theory, it’s a PC you put on top [...]
Some of you may have heard about the $100 laptop project, the quest for a cheap laptop that can be sent to third world countries for educational purposes and to help spread use and access to the internet. Well, here is a video preview of the unit. Sure, it’s a bit cheesy looking, but I [...]
Those media center computers in the electronics stores look nice don’t they? Sure, demonstrations of Microsoft’s new ‘Surface PC‘ might be wowing us on You Tube, but, let’s face it, the capabilities of even the most basic modern computers in the home are still sorely under-utilized. The fact of the matter is that by adding [...]
This last Saturday, we had a hellish storm here in Florida. Lightning and the resulting electricity surges managed to take out my Verizon FIOS system, the NIC card in my main desktop computer, and a television. It also manged to (it seems) blow out my Klipsch 4.1 speaker system. My Klipsch system served me well [...]
I personally own 4 laptop computers and 4 working desktop computers. And, while I sit here writing this on one of my laptops, I am actually thinking about buying a Mac.
PC Mechanic is very well known for my tutorial Build Your Own PC. If you search Google for it, you’ll see that I come up #1. So, I get a lot of people coming around here interested in the do-it-yourself approach. Laptops are more and more popular these days. I have a desktop computer which [...]
A step-by-step guide on installing a new hard drive.
There are five levels of ridiculous: A little ridiculous Somewhat ridiculous Ridiculous Really ridiculous Absolutely ridiculous Apple has now passed into the absolutely ridiculous category. Why? Proof of iPhone’s crashing – in the Apple Store. Apple charging five bucks just to get into the Apple Store.* The iPhone crash was at least tolerable. It is, [...]
Rich does a quick review of the Garmin c580, the GPS which integrates with MSN Direct to pull down dynamic information on traffic, weather, even movie times.
Today I received a new GPS, the Garmin StreetPilot c580. I have owned it for less than a day but have to say that thus far I am 100% satisfied with the unit. I will have a further in-depth review of this product later – but for now here are some of the highlights: Yes, [...]
Rich looks at the complexities around the proprietary connections and cables that come with his Olympus digital camera. He finds a way around his connector hell.
