Two:Thirty AM

I went to the Apple store the other day with Valerie to get her MacBook battery looked at. In years past, the technician at the Genius Bar usually would just run some diagnostics or maybe even use a couple tools from a bootable CD. They have quite a cool setup nowadays though. They now take [...]

January 29, 2008. Apple announced the MacBook Air. It was nothing short of amazing! Thin, light, and beautiful. I got one shortly after release and loved it for about 2 weeks. The machine was absolutely perfect until you tried to do any real work on it. Because of its size, it had to sacrifice on [...]

  Well, I went to see it in person, and after trying very hard to keep my expectations very low, I was still somehow disappointed. It pains me to say it; I want WebOS to survive in the worst way, but sadly this launch (if you can even call it a launch) did nothing but [...]

Everyone’s universal complaint about smartphones? Battery life! It’s a sad but true fact that we have been conditioned to think that if a phone gets 8 hours of battery life, that is “good”. That is not good, it is crap. My worst battery life experience was the Samsung Charge, which I returned because of this. [...]

Well after a brief 5 month stint on T-mobile, I have now left. According to them, they have “the worlds’s largest 4G network”, but according to me, their network sucks. I was using the kick ass Samsung Nexus S on T-mobile; everything about the phone was fantastic, except the carrier it was on. I found [...]

We were in an Office Depot yesterday to drop off some packages to be mailed  when I happened to see a display for the Blackberry Playbook. I had seen many online reviews for the tablet but hadn’t actually seen one in the wild yet. We took the opportunity to go check it out and play [...]

Since Google decided to not send me a ChromeOS CR-48 notebook, I had to make my own! (I still REALLY want a CR-48) The Hardware I picked up a super cheap Acer Aspire One over at Fry’s. Model:  D255E Processor: 1.66GHz dual core Atom Memory: 1GB (upgraded to 2GB for $23 from amazon) All together [...]

Well, It finally happened. My Nexus S was working too perfectly, so I had to go ahead and root it and load a custom ROM. :) Here is a quick little how-to of what I did to make it all work. All files are linked below. This is not a final release of CyanogenMod 7, [...]

Finding the right computer mouse is one of those seemingly never ending quests in a geeks life. I almost always go with wireless mice myself. Most recently I was using the Apple Magic Mouse at home, and still currently use the Logitech MX Revolution at work. The Apple mouse was great in theory, but fell [...]