As you’re no doubt aware by now, solid-state drives offer substantial performance gains over traditional platter hard drives in a variety of areas. Judged by nearly any metric imaginable, SSDs are vastly superior. If raw speed is what you’re interested in, SSDs are the ticket. By default, Windows 7 is a great operating system. It’s [...]
When solid-state drives first appeared on the market, consumers faced a great challenge in installing and configuring these devices. Configured incorrectly, the performance was horrid, and in some cases, could even lead to a permanent loss of capability. Then, Windows 7 came along. Here was an operating system that Microsoft optimized in such a way [...]
Solid-state drives are an extremely fast alternative to the traditional hard drive, which typically uses spinning platters and movable read-write heads to manipulate data. An SSD, on the other hand, uses a series of memory chips, to which it has immediate access, which accounts for the blazing SSD speed and efficiency. Nevertheless, fast is never [...]
woke up to this and a sunny day this morning. Time to get Jake to school and hopefully shoot some photos. alli speed barefoot (1)
Yea this is the coolest Flash animation on a website I’ve seen in a while. Basically just hit the start link and then scroll in or out with the up and down arrow keys. It loops so you can be sure to see everything. Go through it one time fast and then slow down and [...]
Last night at some ungodly AM hour on the east coast (slightly less ungodly on the left coast, equally ungodly in Europe), the Cassini-Huygens probe fired its rockets and put itself into orbit around Saturn. The Cassini-Huygens probe has traveled nearly 3.5 billion km (2.2 billion miles to us USians) since its October 15th, 1997 [...]
It’s getting real annoying while on the iPhone or iPad to come to a website and any flash video or other types of embedded video not being playable on my mobile device. It’s the whole Flash video vs HTML5 video thing and it’s driving me crazy. Take a look at the videos below and tell [...]
Here’s a project that’s been gaining a lot of ground recently. You go camping and you’ve got to haul your pack, tent and other needed accessories. If you’re just parking your RV or truck near a campsite… no big deal. But, if you’re an enthusiast seeking the ultimate wilderness experience, you might be hiking into [...]
Online marketing and transactions have brought a new opportunity to marketing departments and planners, the ability to micromanage metrics. One of the difficulties that marketing managers have faced since the beginning of marketing time is answering the question “is what I’m investing in really making a difference?” That obfuscation of cause (or rather ad) and [...]
Companies are starting to use LBS (location-based services) as the new cutting edge marketing to attract a new crowd. The question is whether they’ll pay for the privilege. Or whether Foursquare, which has 400,000 users now voluntarily “checking in” at locations, and broadcasting that to their followers, will transcend its current “it” status among the [...]
Teens in Massachusetts have it rough lately with texting while driving, increasing the minimum driving age and avoiding suspicion of DUI charges. Typing on your cellphone while driving could cost you $100 under a state ban against the practice that’s likely to become law. Technologies that let you text by talking can cost a lot [...]
[pullquote]I receive lots of comments and questions about performance recommendations for Microsoft SharePoint on a regular basis.[/pullquote] I could be approached at conferences or even get asked for my advice in everyday conversations in the hallways or on the streets. In light of all the inquiries I have received thus far I decided to compile [...]
Foursquare is rapidly growing from a cool social networking app to the next big thing and everyone wants to know how they can be a Foursquare Mayor. At first, Foursquare was only available for iPhone users. Now that there are releases for Blackberry, Android and Palm, the foursquare craze has really begun to grow. It [...]
In this day and age of immediate information being available at anyone’s fingertips, it would make sense that you would be concerned about how to improve your online reputation and be able to manage your reputation if it’s less than desirable. Do you realize just how popular it is to use an internet search engine [...]
I got an email from Amazon this morning for a sweet deal on a Western Digital 2 TB SATA Intellipower Hard Drive for $139.99 and how could I pass that up. I’d need to get 2 of them to mirror each other as I do in my current setup but as I thought about cables [...]
One of the biggest things that any computer user hates is a failed hard drive. A great way to surpass this tired old technology is with a solid-state hard drive. But we’re getting ahead of ourselves. Let’s start at the beginning. Computers can be on of the most invaluable things to any professional, student, or [...]
Tonight, the House of Representatives voted to approve historic health care reform legislation. I know first hand how providing access to affordable health care isn’t a political issue, but a deeply personal one for every family. My late husband Paul waged a long, courageous fight against cancer and during that time, our family had the [...]
Microsoft Vista is an operating system that has quite a bit of faults. From poor RAM allocation to causing hardware failures with certain computers, Vista has had more than it’s fair share of detractors. However, Microsoft responded in kind with Windows 7 – a powerful operating system that has enjoyed favorable accolades from reviewers around [...]
So a lot of people are getting behind this move with the ban, texting while driving. We’re getting tech guru, Mario Armstrong joining us via Skype, he’s Skyping for us this morning from Baltimore. Good morning to you, I see you’ve got the whole – the football theme going here, but we’re talking … we’re [...]
After wanting to see a review of the new Apple iPad tablet computer I complained enough and a friend told me she was getting one and I can do a review on it as soon as she got it. Well today is the day. The Apple iPad is the addition to the must-have list of [...]
