Technology

The APC Back-UPS RS 1500VA allows you to hot swap the backup battery, but there’s no explicit instructions on how to reset the replace battery warning. In order to reset the the replace battery warning, you have to run the battery test by pushing down the button at the front for a few seconds. Be … Continue reading »

Between watching DVDs and Netflix Streaming, the XBox 360 is the console I use the most for media entertainment although I watch my Blu-Rays on the PS3. For recording shows in HD format, I use BeyondTV on a HTPC. I’ve noticed a lot more HD content on Netflix Streaming and it looks very good on … Continue reading »

I was thinking this morning about how silly it is to have a virtual keyboard with an iPhone or iPod Touch interface. The natural gestures you would use on a touch screen aren’t very well suited to the 26 letters of the alphabet (Hi, Blackberry fanboys). Morse code makes more sense with its dots and … Continue reading »

I recently purchased a Dell Mini 9n because it was on sale for only $199. This was for a netbook that cost $349 when it shipped half a year ago. It was configured with Ubuntu, 512Mb of RAM, and a 8Gb SSD. I had read some positive reviews for the product, and I wanted to … Continue reading »

I just installed the ScribeFire blogging plugin for Firefox. This looks like a fast way to add posts to my blog. Oh wow, this is nice, the categories are displayed in a tab!

Link via NYTimes.com The cellphone-chip makers argue that the ARM-Linux combination is just fine for a computer meant to handle e-mail, Facebook, streaming video from sites like YouTube and Hulu, and Web-based documents. Freescale, for example, gave free netbooks to a group of 14- to 20-year-olds and watched what happened. “They would use it for … Continue reading »

Link via sfgate.com Silicon Graphics Inc. will sell the remaining shreds of its fraying franchise to Rackable Systems Inc. for $25 million, punctuating the downfall of a former high-tech star that once dazzled investors and customers with the prowess of its fancy computers. A sad day for a computer company that used to sell the … Continue reading »

I just bought 2 Seagate 500Gb drives at $59.99 each with free shipping from Newegg. These are one platter drives, whereas in 2006 when the first 500s were out, the Hitachi used 5 platters and the Seagate used 4 platters.

I ordered a Dell Mini 9N for $199 yesterday which was $50 off the normal price of $249. I’ve been looking for a netbook I can use for casual browsing around the house, and this was the best price I’ve seen for this size. It runs Ubuntu, and I’ll see how the 512 Mb of … Continue reading »