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Archive for April, 2009

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Creative Labs Vado

My Creative VADO HD!

I am comparing this camera to a Flip Mino HD….while it may not be fair, it is the only way I could give an accurate review to this product. Box Includes: Camera, removable battery, mini hdmi to hdmi cable (wow), usb extension cable, rubber/silicon skin, and documentation. So it starts….the battery comes pretty charged and [...]

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HP Mediasmart EX485 Review!

HP Mediasmart EX485 Review!

I have been using different types of NAS solutions, including a Drobo, for a while now and wanted to give the Windows Home Server solution a shot for my home. I am an IT person by trait. I know that it is fairly easy to build a small home server but I had heard so [...]

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Windows 7 RC (7100) x64 Part One – No Inplace Upgrades!

Windows 7 RC (7100) x64 Part One – No Inplace Upgrades!

I am terrified at the fact that I have to do a rebuild of my whole system, especially when a new build of Windows 7 is released. Its not that I lack the knowledge, it is simply that I lack the time to rebuild my entire system. I have been using Windows 7 since Build [...]

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Griffin Simplifi for iPhone and iPod!

Griffin Simplifi for iPhone and iPod!

So, I bought this Simplifi to do two things….one to clean up my desk and get rid of the various usb cables and memory card adapters laying around, and two so I could drop my iPhone 3g in to the dock and let it sync/charge at night when I get home. It does both things [...]

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Spyder 3 Elite!

Spyder 3 Elite!

I purchased this on the advice of a very well known Photographer via Twitter. No names since he is very private…but I can tell you he is published and very very known in the industry. I had a Huey pro which to me, worked, but did not work well enough as certain colors were washed [...]

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Thermaltake Esata Dock

Enterprise Backup on Hard Drives using ESATA Docks!

I work for a small ‘shop’ so to speak with about 150 users and 10-12 servers. We regularly backup about 1tb of data and about 500gb nightly for email servers, sql servers, etc. The server hardware is all HP Proliant and our backup hardware consisted of an HP Ultrium LTO Autoloader. The backup software we [...]

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Mac’s do run faster after a rebuild!!!

Mac’s do run faster after a rebuild!!!

My mac pro recently started to get me concerned with its lack of responsiveness and thus I had to make a decision… I have always read that mac’s do not require rebuild and are usually self sufficient if you do the various maintenance tasks. I tried the permissions repair and ran a few utilities to [...]

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