Feb 9, 2009

I’ve always been a fan of Altec Lansing products. To me their products have always been of high quality, producing good sound, and at a reasonable price. In the tradition of Altec Lansing design and quality, the new T612 iPod dock does not disappoint. The T612 is a combination recharging and docking station for your iPhone or iPod Touch, with 60 Watt RMS...

Feb 5, 2009

As someone who used to work in the field as an Adobe Photoshop Technician, I know all too well how hard it is to work with some equipment. Sometimes, the computer just doesn’t want to be friendly with you, the technology hates you, and you can generally get a bad day with uncooperative hardware that you know should just be working. We technicians –...

Feb 4, 2009

Several years ago, Canon brought to the market the EOS 5D. This was a groundbreaking camera within the DSLR marketplace, as, for the first time, we were seeing a full frame (35mm equivalent) digital SLR camera being sold at an almost affordable price. While the camera proved to be popular, it was never one that I was particularly fond of. It felt plasticky, and...

Jan 26, 2009

We had a need to replace a DSL modem at a friend’s home just recently. During the last year, they had upgraded their connection from ordinary ADSL to what’s called “Fast ADSL”, which gives them an improvement in speed – in their case, from 256 to 8192kbps. Their old modem didn’t support this faster speed and its wireless...

Jan 13, 2009

If you’re a guy and you plan on shaving your head, you don’t have a lot of choices. You can head to a hairdresser or barber and pay anywhere between eight and twenty dollars for someone to come along with a buzzer and take as much of your hair off in one go as humanly possible. You could join the army. That would be somewhat effective provided you...

Jan 12, 2009

Happy New Mouse! Well, it’s a brand new year, a whole new working year ahead of us, and what better way than to start the year with some new hardware? Well, how about just a little bit of new hardware, anyway? In my hand I have the new Microsoft Explorer Mini Mouse. It doesn’t go exploring in caves or on the beaches, and I’m not too sure that...