Have you ever seen your laptop's hard drive light on continuously and the system act as it was frozen? The problem is that Vista caches key operating system and application data to the hard disk. The solution; ReadyBoost, this is a little known feature in Vista which allows you to substantially impr...

Part 1 overview First off; I want to thank all of the BMW enthusiasts out there for all the information they post on the forums, especially x5world. Without the information and responses on these sites I would never have attempted the upgrades to my X5. For this project I used the instructions prov...

Apple seems content with leaving the 2G phone's baseband alone for now, it works very well. This means that iPhone 2Gs which were upgraded to 2.0 using Pwnage can be upgraded to 2.2 using iTunes. The iPhone will remain SIM unlocked although the phone will not be Jailbroken and currently there is no ...

The Wall Street Journal last week wrote about how the iPhone is a gaming platform to watch, with Sega selling 500,000 copies of Super Monkey Ball for $9.99, you can quickly deduce that this could be a big market for game developers. The Wall Street Journal states: "The iPhone and its sister dev...

In my continuing research to find a good solution for sharing pictures from my Sony digital camera while traveling without a PC (see previous post), I found a German company which makes portable backup and viewing devices targeted to professional photographers. The company is called Jobo. They produ...

Unless you were living under a rock this weekend, the big technology news was that Microsoft bailed on the Yahoo acquisition. On its face value, I agree with the decision, I was never convinced that Microsoft could properly execute the merger. However, what I have found very interesting is the ...

As of today Directv subscribers will no longer be able to view a Pay Per View (PPV) movie purchase for more than 24 hours (link). The ability to watch a movie in several sittings has been a major plus for my wife and I over the last 12 years as Directv subscriber. When I upgraded to HD, this was one...

As of today Directv subscribers will no longer be able to view a Pay Per View (PPV) movie purchase for more than 24 hours (link). The ability to watch a movie in several sittings has been a major plus for my wife and I over the last 12 years as Directv subscriber. When I upgraded to HD, this was one...

With Walt Mossberg's off handed comment (link) last week that the 3G iPhone was 60 days out; the rumor mill has gotten into high gear. Several days later Walt denied having any knowledge of any release date. As Apple's number one mainstream media pitch man, I think he has a ...

With Walt Mossberg's off handed comment (link) last week that the 3G iPhone was 60 days out; the rumor mill has gotten into high gear. Several days later Walt denied having any knowledge of any release date. As Apple's number one mainstream media pitch man, I think he has a ...