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You won’t find too many people beating down virtual or brick and mortar doors to get their hands on an Acer Iconia Tab. The demand just isn’t there, not when there are sexier, slimmer, more capable, and less expensive alternatives available (some of which are a combination of more than one of those), and the Iconia Tab line hasn’t sold particularly well as a result. Be that as it may, Acer isn’t waving the white flag.

Amid rumors that Acer would withdraw from the tablet PC and smartphone markets, company founder Stan Shih set the record straight by explaining this … [Read More...]

Unleash the discs of war!

Some would say the NERF Vortex weapons system is a product of the military industrial complex that President Eisenhower warned us about in 1961. NERF already has a perfectly effective dart-based ammunitions system, but now seems to be forcing a new standard with the introduction of the Vortex line. Vortex blasters employ wafer-like projectiles—”XLR” discs. It’s a fine piece of ammo, but it’s incompatible with all those N-Strike blasters that are sitting in the munitions depots of nerds worldwide. Is this a craven policy shift designed to migrate everyone to a new ammo standard, rendering … [Read More...]

First they came for our 2-D televisions. Now they want our laptops.

If you thought 3-D was a tough sell for the living room, now imagine if you had to lug the technology around with you. That, in fact, is the big sell of the HP Envy 17 3D, and any other 3-D-equipped laptop: it gives you the world of three dimensions on the go. Can you feel the excitement? No? Well, ahem.

Let’s cut to the chase. You are not going to buy a 3-D laptop for … [Read More...]

Recently, I asked iTunes to organize my music directory (getting music from different sources other than just the iTunes store left it a little messy and I decided I’d let iTunes do its thing) and it did a great job; however, it left a bunch of empty directories. Although these empty directories didn’t pose any performance impact, they just looked… messy and I decided I’d delete them. I started doing this one by one and soon realized I had over 50 empty directories and sub directories. Being lazy, I decided to run a command to remove these directories. I’ve done … [Read More...]

Do you have several physical hard-drives on your computer, but would like to have them collaborating as one? This can be useful for smaller SSD-drives or similar.

A quick Note before we continue!
Spanned volumes are not RAID volumes and they are not fault tolerant. If one of the disks in the volume should fail, you lose the data on both disks. That being said, let’s continue…

Preparations

There are two ways to combine volumes into one: the Disk Management tool or the command line utility. Both methods require you to have Administrative privileges. You should also make a backup … [Read More...]

A slightly imperfect mega music machine

It wasn’t long ago that we turned our critical eye on another recently released Grace Digital Internet radio, the diminutive Solo Wi-Fi Receiver. Although we liked it in a general sense, we found its connectivity somewhat limiting and its controls challenging. We also weren’t sure what it wanted to be: It looked like a bedside radio, but it but needed external amplification and speakers to produce sound.

This time ‘round, we look at the substantially more sophisticated, substantially more focused Grace Tuner Wireless Radio and Media Player (Grace’s model number GDI-IRDT200, which sells for … [Read More...]

We believe that everyone who considers themselves a computer enthusiast should have at least some experience with a Linux environment, but it can be daunting to just jump into the deep end of a completely unfamiliar operating system. One way to get your feet wet is with Cygwin, a free program that provides you with a Unix-like command line, without having to leave Windows. Cygwin is not a Unix emulator (it cannot run native Unix programs, although it does contain the tools needed to compile and run a program from source code), but it does have a wide array of … [Read More...]

You’ve installed a seemingly innocent application, restarted your computer, and suddenly you see the horror, your background has changed, it’s dark and has a message that says you’ve won the grand prize. You try restarting your computer again, same thing. Youve been hijacked; meaning your background has been hijacked. What will you do? Well, dont let it ruin your day. If you’re using Windows XP there is help.