Archive for the ‘Gadgets’ Category
Saturday, September 29th, 2007 629 views
So I was going to make this innuendo-laden post about what I do with my stick, but decided against it. This is a family blog after all. Anyway, USB sticks are cheap these days, so I always carry a couple of them with me. The latest acquisition is a 4GB ...
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Tuesday, September 18th, 2007 359 views
A while ago, I invested in a Nokia N95 Smartphone running the Symbian S60 3rd ed. operating system. It's a great phone, with all the features you expect from a high-end smartphone: 3.5G, A-GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth, 5 megapixel camera, MP3 player, up to 2GB of storage.
Never the less, there are ...
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Friday, August 17th, 2007 312 views
Yeah it's a product review. No, it won't be pretty, but it will be kinda short. The Maxtor MSS2 is a 1 terrabyte external network attached storage device (NAS), with 2 500G Maxtor SATA drives configured in a RAID (default RAID0). What's more, it's a worthless piece of shit. ...
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Sunday, May 20th, 2007 228 views
The much hyped and long awaited Optimus Maximus OLED based keyboard can now be preordered from Art Lebedev studios. It carries a hefty price tag though, at an estimated €1256.86. The first batch of 200 will ship early december, and will be reserved for the first 200 who preorder.
While on ...
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Saturday, April 28th, 2007 232 views
Next week, we're taking office warfare to a new level. Already we have attack helicopters patroling the office space, but recent transgressions have prompted an escalation! So I've invested in some Weapons of Mass Destruction! A USB powered, PC controlled missile launcher - if this doesn't put the fear of ...
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Monday, January 8th, 2007 272 views
Tan Chew Keong over at vuln.sg has some interesting news for owners of Acer notebooks. Apparently they all come with a rootkit preinstalled, in the form of an ActiveX control called "LunchApp.ocx" that is registered and marked "safe for scripting" (that is, any web page embedding the code to launch ...
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