The APC 1000VA Power Saving Green Back-UPS XS – with LCD Display
A UPS is a device that you don’t know you need, until you need it. A UPS or uninterruptible power supply is an in house battery back up that provides emergency power to your computer (or anything else you plug into it) when your utilities fail. Here in Bellevue where I live, we get sudden drops in power all the time, so for years I have used small UPS units to protect my PCs. It been a great system and has worked very well. Last Thursday we had storm roll through that caused a short power outage followed by a
Click for more / Podcast Player>HP ends WebOS, the cost of AT&T text messaging, and NASA Science and Tech – HT040
TAG Tech Deal of the Week–Seagate Momentus XT 500GB Hybrid 2.5” Hard Disk
This weeks’ Deal of the Week, is the Seagate Momentus XT 500GB 7200 RPM 2.5” Hybrid drive from NewEgg.com, a worthwhile upgrade at $89.99. The drive is larger than an SSD, with improved performance over a regular drive.
Click for more / Podcast Player>HP TouchPad / WebOS: 28 Day Experiment – Day 11
It’s been a busy couple of days since Monday and I haven’t used the TouchPad as much as I had the week before. I had thought I would sit down tonight after the Home Tech Podcast was recorded and drop a few notes about the weeks usage. It turned out to be a much more interesting day than that. At about 2pm I got wind from a co-worker that HP had announced it was going to effectively scuttle the WebOS platform for the future. Gina Smith over at Byte.com said this: In a sharp tactical reversal, Hewlett-Packard today killed its
Click for more / Podcast Player>HP TouchPad / WebOS: The 28 Day Experiment – Day 7
I didn’t really get a chance to work much on the TouchPad on Saturday. I’m finding that when I am at home, the TouchPad has a hard time competing with my 24” monitor and PC. Today was filled with a bunch of PC maintenance and file clean up. I also had to edit and post two podcasts and well as do some updating to the website (hope you noticed?). Nothing I would ever try to do on a tablet. Since the weekend means I use the TouchPad less, I thought I could use it to talk about the applications that
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