Extreme Tech:
Review of the new 10,000 RPM WD VelociRaptor. You really do want 10,000 RPM for your Windows boot drive.
Extreme Tech:
Review of an external RAID array.
Guardian.UK:
Kindle helps tiny ebook market. “The market is very narrowly confined, to New York and Seattle and to a few people who travel and read a lot.” To repeat myself, I’ll have my prose without batteries, thank you very much.
Random observation:
Two more people of my acquaintance, burned by Vista in the workplace ... planning to switch their personal computing from PC to Mac. Trend seems to be accelerating.
B&H Photo:
Transferring Old Video Tapes to DVD. Some techniques here that hadn’t occurred to me ... or just slipped my mind. Beware the tape-eating old VCR, absolutely.
LA Times:
Video cameras will soon be ubiquitous on cellphones. How will ‘constant mutual surveillance’ go over?
Extreme Tech:
Terabyte drives are still pricey (750s give you more bang per buck); here’s a shootout. Or, cut to the chase and see the results. ET needs to do a pulldown of pages at the top of articles, instead of the text links at the bottom ... the current design’s a pain to navigate.
Guardian.co.UK:
The free-thinking reader is not dead, but found online. The only chance an e-book reader has with me, is if they make it a two-screen leatherbound. With a crank to recharge the contraption ... the last thing we need is another battery-operated device. Steampunk it. Even with all that, you’ll find me curled up with an old volume instead ...
Extreme Tech
reviews a nice, but expensive, device for mounting two monitors.
ars technica:
MetaRAM quadruples DDR2 DIMM capacities, launches 8GB DIMMs. More RAM is always better.
O’Reilly, Lightroom Insider:
The Economics of Online Backup. Phooey. After reading this, I’ll use hard drives.
ifixit:
Inside the Macbook Air laptop. You could almost say that it’s an oversized iPod.
NCIXUS.com:
DVD burner, HD and Blueray player for PCs. Never heard of such a thing before, esp. at the price. Read the comments to see the caveat emptors. Read about the external via this review at Gear Diary.
Batting 1,000 …
As a replacement for my Epson printer, I picked up a low-cost Canon Pixma IP3500. Runs nice, makes all kind of appropriate noises ... but ink never reaches the paper. Taking it back to replace it. Between the purchases of clothes, food and technology, I run into more terrible quality control. I seem to spend more time returning things in our modern society than I do actually using them. Thus I refute mass-production and globalization. It simply doesn’t work. We’d save huge gobs of energy if things were done right in the first place using ... what would we call it today ... “slow production”?
I know, I know ... crab, crab, crab. It’s one of those days.
My Epson Stylus Photo 925 posted an error today …
“Parts have worn beyond service life.” I’ve used the thing very little. No help for it, time to buy something else. Hated the printer, anyway. Noisy, terrible quality, paper jams out the wazoo, cleaning cycles that sucked expensive ink away. I’ll go Canon this time.
Extreme Tech:
Build an external eSATA hard drive. “At 3 gigabits per second, eSATA is significantly faster than USB 2.0’s 480 Mbps or FireWire’s 400 Mbps.”
Cnet News.com:
FireWire speeds set to quadruple. As megapixels consume more megabytes, this is a very good thing.
NY Times Tech:
Faster Chips Are Leaving Programmers in Their Dust.
Decently produced.
Gear Diary:
A bug in Leopard? Move directories at the wrong time, you might lose that moved information.
AppleInsider:
Return of the Newton! Still have my 120. Do a trade-up program, Steve.
vowe.net
has a very fine judgment of the iPhone situation. Very fine indeed.
Tangential: This is a little too much.
ExtremeTech:
Ars Technica:
In search of decent sound on a budget.
Coding Horror:
Quad or Dual Core? Audio/video/3D, go quad.
