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Entries from February 2010

Western Digital Live HD Media Player Review [WD Live HD Review]

February 24th, 2010 · No Comments

Its hard not to fall in love with the Western Digital Live HD on first sight. Its wonderfully tiny, affordable, efficient, and capable. Despite common klunky navigation and limited features, if you need its features its a great solution.

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Tags: Awww How Sweet · Energy · Gadgets · Television

Crucial C300 SATA 3 6 Gbps SSD Now Available On Crucial.com

February 22nd, 2010 · 1 Comment

The world’s fastest SATA drive is here, and it’s the first to require the new SATA 3 6Gbps bus for full performance.

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Tags: Computers

MTA, Other Train Operators Need To Back Off Calling Track Fatality Victims ‘Trespassers’

February 17th, 2010 · 3 Comments

The railroad industry has a bad habit of referring to the victims of train accidents primarily as ‘trespassers’, most likely to dispel the idea of operator liability in the minds of survivors. It needs to end.

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Tags: Metro-North · MTA · Safety and Accidents

Apple Mac Users Locked Out of USB 3.0, SATA 3.0 6Gbps, and SSD Support

February 17th, 2010 · 50 Comments

USB 3.0, SATA 6 Gbps, and OS support for high-performance Solid State Disks (SSDs) are already available to Windows 7 users with several new motherboards. Mac users need to be aware of these advances and decide which are important to them before upgrading, as many Mac models will lock them out of some of these features – in some cases permanently.

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Tags: Apple · Computers · Windows 7

Windows 7 Solid Color Background = 30 Second Boot Delay (!!)

February 10th, 2010 · No Comments

Windows 7 users who prefer a solid color desktop are suffering from a very significant and easily avoidable boot delay.

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Tags: Windows 7

Is The Apple iPad the Next Big Elderly Internet Solution?

February 2nd, 2010 · 3 Comments

The Apple iPad could be the next big thing in Internet for your grandmother – but only after it cuts the apron strings to its desktop parent…

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Tags: Apple iPad