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2007 September 05

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New Dell Laptop Has The Power Of A Desktop

Yesterday Dell has launched their newest laptop the Dell Precision 6300 that is designed for those who want a powerful system within a small foot print. Dell states that the new laptop is ‘designed to free engineers, artists, developers and other professionals to run business-critical applications wherever they go with true desktop-level performance.’
The speifications of […]

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Prolonged Computer Use Is Bad For The Eyes

I stumbled on this article at the Indystar.com by an optometrist by the name of Shari Rudavsky concerning computer use and how it affects our eye sight. The article points out that reading printed material has defined borders and computer use pixels to present the image. It is common for people to develop the following […]

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HDTV Antenna - Does It Work?

Last week I was at my new neighbor’s house, who is actually a longtime friend who moved into the hood. He had recently purchased a new HDTV with all of the bells and whistles from Circuit City and was using the services of firedog to connect all of his other toys to the new set […]

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Is FasterFox For Firefox Faster?

This morning I recalled a Mozilla Firefox extension called Fasterfox. The author states that with Fasterfox:
Performance and network tweaks for Firefox.
Fasterfox allows you to tweak many network and rendering settings such as simultaneous connections, pipelining, cache, DNS cache, and initial paint delay.
Dynamic speed increases can be obtained with the unique prefetching mechanism, which recycles idle […]

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Google’s New Role - Buy Everything

Over at BusinessWeek is a very interesting article about Google becoming the new VC [Venture Capitalist] of Silicon Valley. Google is investing in startup companies and hoping if they are successful, to be first in line to buy the new companies. Also Google is funding what are called ‘Gadget Ventures’ that compliment online tools that […]