Archive for the 'Gadgets and Hardware' Category

Belkin Flip USB KVM: A Review

For a few weeks now, I’ve been switching between the dualing laptops in style, with Belkin’s new Flip USB KVM. Sometimes it’s just fun to be a nerd.

The Gist of It

For the uninitiated, “KVM” stands for keyboard, video, and mouse, ironically (!) the three devices you share when you use one of these little wonders […]

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Amazing What a Gig Does

Trying to prolong the life of my ThinkPad, I went to the store and bought a 1 GB memory upgrade for it, adding on to the 512 MB of RAM I already had. Now I power 1.5 GB of RAM under the hood, and things are speedier.

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Apple Speculation

I found this article giving an exclusive on what Apple plans to announce on Tuesday. Neat stuff.

Update: Apple releases Intel Mac mini and the iPod Hi-Fi. I’ve been pining for the new Mac minis but iPod Hi-Fi? Lame.

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New Apple Patents

These new Apple patents are really cool. I had an idea like the last image a few months back; it involved car navigation systems, and dragging your finger to form a rectangle of an area to zoom in on. Hell, I even had this idea first. Oh well, back to the drawing board.

Big Apple Tuesday

All right, so Apple announced new Mac computers with Intel processors. I have to admit: this has what I’ve been waiting for. I knew the computers would be faster and wanted to wait for the Intel ones to get a Powerbook.

This whole MacBook thing has thrown me for a loop, though.

How can Apple quickly replace […]