Searching For What?

October 27th, 2006

Pirates and sexy women will soon roam the streets, if online activity is any indicator.

“Pirate costumes” was the leading costume-specific search, while Tinkerbell, Wonder Woman, Jack Sparrow and Playboy bunnies also ranked among the top five in the four weeks ending Oct. 21, according to Hitwise, an online intelligence and metrics service.

You can read about Hitwise here

Microsoft Finally Reveals Plans for Upgrades to Vista

October 26th, 2006

Microsoft officials have said they are on track for a release of Vista to volume license business customers in November, and to consumers in January 2007.

The new initiative, known as the Express Upgrade to Windows Vista and Microsoft Office Technology Guarantee program, will be in effect from October 26, 2006 to March 15, 2007 and will be managed in two different ways: by PC manufacturers where the operating system is preloaded, and by Microsoft from system builders.

 

Intel 2200BG Wireless MiniPCI

October 25th, 2006

Went to a house that had a Dell 700M, I love these laptops.  At random it would BSOD on her with a Driver_IRQ_blah blah blah.  After debugging the MiniDump it turned out to be the wireless cards .sys drive.  A quick google search and BAAM! everyones having this issue.  Updated the drivers thru Dell site.  Good to go!!

Acer 5102

October 24th, 2006

Sold a few Acer 5102’s today. Very nice laptops if you are in the market.

Acer Aspire 5102WLMI Notebook PC

1.0 GB RAM - 1 GB Hard Drive - 15.4″ Display
AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-50, 15.4″ WXGA display, 1GB of DDR2 memory, 120GB hard drive, DVD SuperMulti drive
Acer 5102

Memory Upgrade

October 24th, 2006

Had to do a memory upgrade on a computer today. This computer uses what is called Rambus Memory (another name would be expensive).
Depending on what kind and how much of it you need i.e. 128, 256, 512 it is a bit more expensive than conventional memory.

Rambus Memory

Mozilla Firefox 2.0

October 24th, 2006

On Tuesday, the Mozilla Foundation is expected to release the final version of Firefox 2.0. If you do not use Firefox currently then you need to download it and give it a run. For those that have never heard of Firefox or used it, it’s just another Internet Browser. But, has alot of features and things built into it that the other browsers don’t. Check them out at:
www.mozilla.org

 

 

Nokia E62

October 23rd, 2006

Replace the Treo I had with the Nokia E62. Very nice phone and major difference in price. Not that I am a phone expert, but besides not having a camera integrated into it the features are great.

You can check them out at: Nokia Phones

Nokia E62

Top 10 Gadgets

October 23rd, 2006

Top 10 GadgetsReader’s favorite gadget submissions in July from itworld.com

  1. Handheld, smartphone (Blackberry, Ipaq, Treo, Tungsten, etc.)  36%
  2. USB flash, pen drive  12%
  3. Pocket knife, handtool (Swiss Army, Leatherman, SeberTool, etc.)  9%
  4. Music, audio player (iPod, etc.)  9%
  5. GPS  5%
  6. Cell phone  4%
  7. Laptop, PC  4%
  8. Digital camera (USB camera, Casio WQV-10 camera watch, etc.)   3%
  9. Toys (Sony PSP, Tivo, MSI 566 Mega View multimedia player, etc.)  3%
  10. Low tech (bottle opener, corkscrew, paperclip, hotplate, etc.)  2%

*   Various other gizmos  13%

XP Service Pack 3

October 23rd, 2006

Windows XP Service Pack 3 Pushed Back to 2008
Microsoft has pushed back the third official service pack for Windows XP to 2008. Whether or not this is an issue seems to be one for debate. Service Pack 3 for Windows XP was long-believed to be planned for mid- to late-2007 release. It was largely going to be a collection of cumulative fixes and patches, IE 7, and .Net 3.0, although its contents were still up in the air.  

 

CPU Fan

October 23rd, 2006

Had a computer come in and the problem was it just kept shutting down. After asking the normal questions we decided to open it up. As you can see it became very apparent what the problem was.

A dirty CPU Fan will not only make your computer reboot but if you don’t get it corrected it can actually damage the cpu itself.

CPU_Fan

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