Category: hardware
MozBackup and Belarc Advisor
My HP Pavilion tablet PC is slowly dying. Sent to and returned from the shop twice already since I bought it 14 months ago, both times for a motherboard replacement, its hard drive started flaking on me last month. I was able to repair the hard drive with a disk utility and it’s been working…
Skyfire browser for Windows Mobile and Symbian
As I was browsing my daily news feeds this morning, I came across an article about Skyfire. I got my Treo 700wx based on Windows Mobile 5 in November of 2006. Its coolness lasted for several months, but I started wanting for more when the iPhone and Windows Mobile 6 came out. The biggest missing…
Apple releases new iPods, iTunes 8
Apple today released new versions of their iTunes software as well as updated versions of iPods. This release was hardly surprising and, as predicted, there wasn’t anything unexpected or widely diverging from the rumors that had been floating around the Internet. The take-aways are really fewer than I had expected. iTunes 8 is out and…
Netbooks
I’m typing away on my Apple slim aluminum keyboard. It’s the one I poured nearly a full cup of coffee into a couple weeks ago. I dried it, wet it, dried it again and when it wouldn’t work I’d left it for dead. A week passed and I tried it one more time and it’s…
Auction technology Q&A
Questions and answers about auction technology.