2008 March

How long should a hard drive last and are the new solid state drives going to be more reliable? –Peter
Today’s hard drives are faster, store more information, and are more reliable than ever before, but just like any other electronic devices, they have the possibility of failing.
Current hard drives are designed to run non-stop for [...]

Gnomie Mikey (mxjf in our chat room) writes:
I have been watching your videos for a long time and have been subscribed to your YouTube channel since around October. I have noticed that you and Ponzi have quite a few laptops, and I thought this would be appropriate.
Around February 2008, I decided I wanted a laptop. [...]

Logitech’s Noise Canceling Headphones offer significant reduction of outside noise so you can focus on your music, which is faithfully reproduced by 40mm neodymium drivers.
If you’d like to isolate yourself without music, simply detach the six foot cable and enjoy the silence. The headphones also include an airplane adapter so you can enjoy that in-flight [...]

It’s time for a Slingo vacation!
Take off to the beautiful Hawaiian Islands with some brand new tricks, game modes, power-ups and more for another great Slingo adventure! Lie on the beach and order up some Slingo Tricks like Summon Joker and Pattern Match. Dive deep to a Coral Reef and discover Platinum Coins and [...]

8Start Launcher is a skinnable, portable, innovative application launcher and tree notes. It’s a whole new way of launching programs and files, making your desktop clean and accessing/sharing notes fast and easy. Starting programs from shortcuts on the desktop and start menu is an obsolete and cumbersome process. Now it is made precise with categorization [...]

All you have to do is look at services like Flickr and YouTube to see that people are creating more content than ever before. Now that technology makes it easy for us to record what we see, a lot of us can be found recording anything and everything. Many times we freely upload and share [...]

Gnomie techmarshal from our chat room writes:
Hey Chris,
I’m not new to your live feed, but I am new to the chat room. My handle is techmarshal and I thought I would send you this top five list. So here it goes…

Get rid of the programs that you never use or have just forgotten about. These [...]

One of the advantages of using the Public folder is that it can simplify file sharing on your network. It eliminates the need for you to have to share individual folders. For example, if you have a folder called MyFolder on your computer that you want to share with users, all you have to do [...]

Samsung, a leader in consumer electronics, has created the P2 8GB Portable Media Player (Burgundy). This device, with its plethora of features, will render all of your old media players obsolete. The P2 is slim, stylish and makes it easy to access all your media with its touchscreen controls. Its 3″ screen has 480 x [...]

Solve the riddles of the Puzzle Cube and become a master of memory, logic, language, and more!
It’s six different games in one! Play Story Mode, where a mysterious storyline will keep you guessing through more than 30 chapters, or Performance Mode, where you can pick the games you want to play and try for [...]