All The Retina MacBook Pro: Apple's Latest Display of Corporate Hubris Apple's talk at WWDC last Monday was a very expected event, without a doubt. As it turns out, the iPhone 5 wasn't announced, and besides iOS 6, I felt like it was mostly the new Retina display-equipped Macbook Pro that stole the show. After
All Lian Li PC-V354B: Small is the New Big As a computer enthousiast, I have live the most part of my life dreaming of big computer rigs. Gigantic cases with massive airflow, push-pull fan setups on everything, LED-lit this and that, all that jazz. After owning progessively bigger and bigger cases, from a
2nd gen Intel X-25M (Gen 2): The Single Best Upgrade for your PC Let's face it, storage is probably the computer component with the least sex-appeal. When building a computer, consumers usually put the latest multi-core processors, monster video cards and screaming fast memory at the top of the list, while the hard-drive is considered last. As
3.1.2 Downgrading iPhone Firmware from 3.1.3 to 3.1.2 It was a pretty long chain of unfortunate events that led me to accidentally upgrade to 3.1.3. I was sitting in my couch one day, watching TV, eating random junk food. My iPhone was running a jailbroken 3.1.2 with all
All Epinions Review: D-Link DGS-1005D Every geek's LAN takes on unhealthy proportions at some point or another. At first, it's just two machines, his and her's. Then a fileserver. Then a media server. Then a Bluray player. Next thing you know you know you've got network cables running through
135 My Return to 35mm: Pentax Rig & Opticfilm 7200 Digital photography isn't a fact anymore, it's a standard. When I bought my DSLR over a year ago, I never even considered film as a viable option, even though my father's Pentax Super Program was just begging to be used, old and dusty in
7 Setting up AHCI Post-Installation for Vista and Windows 7 I've got a confession to make. Throughout the 5 (or more?) systems that I have built throughout my relatively short period of interest in computers, there has been one thing that I have always omitted to enable, on every single system: AHCI. Advanced Host
All If it Ain't Broke, Make it Better: The Dream Azureus/Vuze Server Setup As you might know if you've been following my Twitter feed, your's truly is departing Sunday of this week for a 13 year long military career. This is obviously a very big step in my life, in two ways: I'm going in the Army,
core [OCN] My Thoughts on Core i7 Everybody knows that we, members of OCN, have a serious problem. Look at it from an average Joe perspective: we spend thousands on high end computers, and at every single occasion we go out and browse Newegg on a quest to find an upgrade
All [OCN] Less is The Future of Computing? If you've been following hardware news for the last 2 years, you may have notice some of the many trends that are becoming the new hotness in computing. As always the race for price/performance between Intel and AMD is on, the two giants
All Open Source: The Next Business Model Here is a little something I wrote for English class. I personally think that this article only recapitulates what everybody knows about open source, but hey, why not share it with the internetz? Enjoy From the very start of the emergence of computing, hundreds,
All [OCN] Rethinking Hard Drives and Storage In this post, I explore how hard drive makers have spent too much time and effort making drives only bigger and faster, and not thinking about making more products tailored to what the consumer needs, and how there are many segments that are still
All Dell Goes UMPC, Pwns Competition Dell just pulled out the big guns and is aiming then straight at Asus, MSI, and other UMPC segment contenders. The new Dell E, and E slim, two new laptops designs, where just announced to Engadget. The E takes on the super-budget laptop segment,
Hardware Unresponsive iPod? Try this... A friend of mine gave me his iPod the other so that I could fill it up with music while he was busy "reimporting his CDs", but I ran into unbeleivable amounts of trouble with his iPod. I've owned an iPod and
All Logitech G5: Probably the Best All-Around Mouse Today, I reviewed my Logitech G5 mouse, which I've been using for about a year now. Out of the packaging, you know this mouse means business. The packaging, while on par with other comparable mice, is eye-catching, the only aspect that really impressed me
2 I Lapped... I'm such a whore. A temp whore. I finally did it: I lapped Annabel's e4300. The temptation had been strong during Fr0stbyte, but I crapped out just thinking about it, probably dued to my modder e-cock not being fully grown at the time. Sanding
All Waiting is so long... Just recently, I bought my monitor from Futureshop, the sick LG Flatron L196WTQ-BF pictured above. It kicks some serious ass. Sure, it isn't the biggest, it's only a 19 incher, but check that out: 3000 to 1 contrast ratio, 2 ms second response time,
All Fr0stByte, It's Complete. Take a look at this baby. After countless hours of messing around drawing crappy schematics in class and buying crap off ebay, it's finally finished.... the aesthetical part at least. All stock fans are replaced by blue LED 120mm, that push about 60 CFM
All How I Wish I Were a Handyman I was just in my basement soldering some stuff when I thought about it. Everybody likes crafts, without exception... some people type it up, some people cut it and glue it, some put it together and paint it. I have not, even once in
680i EVGA 680i SE SLI Epinions Review At first, I was a little skeptical to buy with EVGA at all... I wanted to build a premium gaming rig, and all I could think about was Asus, Asus, Asus, and XFX. Sure, having a reknown brand is great, but they, with their