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Acer Aspire Easystore H340 Review

June 15, 2009July 30, 2009 Doug Groves Acer, Easystore, Microsoft, NAS, review, WHS, Windows19 Comments

Overview: I’m sure we’ve all been faced with the dilemma of running out of hard drive space, and wondering whether it would make more sense to upgrade an internal drive, or plunk down the money for an external solution. When contemplating getting yet another hard drive to add to my system (as dictated by the paltry 24 GB I had left free on my last drive), I realized it was time to look into some sort of network addressed storage (NAS) instead of dogpiling another drive in the computer, or…

An rgbFilter Review: Playstation 3’s Wireless Keypad

December 30, 2008July 9, 2009 Danny X PS3, review2 Comments

It’s no secret that communicating via text chat during online play is an integral part of gaming, and that the hunt & peck method of text inputting is a massive pain in the ass. You COULD use a USB keyboard, but playing online with a full-sized QWERTY on your lap the whole time is impractical, at best. Microsoft recognized the need for a text input device back in May ’07 and gave us the 360 Chatpad, effectively solving all our online chatting needs. Never one to admit its been outdone,…

Acer Aspire One Netbook Review

December 9, 2008July 30, 2009 Doug Groves Acer, netbook, review, Windows6 Comments

There’s been times I thought about getting a notebook, but decided against it for a couple of reasons. Lugging around a notebook everywhere I went never appealed to me because they’re big and bulky, and the need to do some serious computing on the go never seemed to come up. I couldn’t justify the cost/benefit ratio. Then Asus came out with their EEE PC netbook, and started a trend that shows no sign of slowing down. Nowadays, Asus alone seems to have about 100 different models of netbooks, even if…

Quick Shot: Skyfire vs. Opera Mobile

December 3, 2008July 25, 2009 Doug Groves Microsoft, Opera Mobile, review, Skyfire, video, Windows Mobile3 Comments

Skyfire is a relative newcomer to the Windows Mobile browser scene. After lingering in a US only beta for what seems like over a year, the folks at skyfire.com have finally spread their wings, at least to Canada and the UK. What Skyfire promises (and delivers on) is a browser with Flash support built in, for both video and Flash animations. This is a quick speed test comparing Skyfire with the excellent Opera Mobile 9.5, with some sample in-browser Flash playback, using an HTC Touch 400MHz phone. Rendering speeds between…

Another rgbFilter Review: Knight Rider

September 26, 2008July 25, 2009 Danny X Knight Rider, review3 Comments

Wednesday nights, 8:00 PM Eastern, NBC (Global) (official site) If you’re of a similar age to mine, then you remember being transfixed in the living room on any given weeknight watching what would become some of the most iconic characters of your adult life being introduced to the world for the first time. There was B.A. Barracus of the A-Team, Remington Steele, MacGyver, and of course, my personal favourite, KITT from Knight Rider.

The “Podcaster” lesson: Users want more than Apple’s Walled Garden allows

September 19, 2008July 25, 2009 Danny X iPhone, review7 Comments

As we’ve discussed before…and before…and before, Apple’s practice of blacklisting applications from its App Store is something of a controversial move on the part of the Cupertino-based technology company that once described its products as “the computer for the rest of us”, and told us that their company will be “nothing like 1984”.

rgb Filter Episode 004 – Ryanitis – Show Notes

July 9, 2008July 25, 2009 Doug Groves Nvidia, Opera Mobile, review, Wanted4 Comments

Episode 004 of rgb Filter is in the can, and available at your friendly neighbourhood series of tubes. In this show, Ryan joins us as a brand new co-host. We also talk Canadian smartphone data rate updates, and the announcement of Opera Mobile 9.5 beta coming July 15th. http://my.opera.com/operamobile/blog/2008/07/07/leave-no-platform-behind ATI’s new cards force NVidia to lower prices, while Nvida announces the availability of it’s new CUDA SDK, allowing programmers to use the power of GPUs for non-graphics purposes. Xandros buys Linspire – is it a bid to keep their EEE…