Author: Kupitero
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Fun Little Drone: Ryze Tello Adventures
Old habits die hard, and R/C flying is one of them. Since I caught the aerial remote-control bug during my almost 4-year stint in Saudi Arabia in the early 80s, I had never forgotten this sometimes-expensive hobby. They say that the hearts of adventurous people lie in the extreme desire to fly like birds. R/C…
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Diamond Multimedia Rio 500: The Trouble With Goodbye is Hello
Sorting out my tech stuff in the attic for spring cleaning, I was surprised to discover a cache of old MP3 players. Among them were five (5) Rio 500 made by Diamond Multimedia in the late 1990s. They all came complete with odd-looking USB cables (smaller than a standard 5-pin Mini B) and some old batteries.…
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Fire TV Cube = Logitech Harmony + Amazon Echo
Today, I received my Amazon Fire TV Cube right at my doorstep and was able to set it up in about half an hour, including the installation of all my apps — mostly to watch TV shows and movies all over the web. I would admit that it is fascinating yet cheap -got it at…
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Toshiba Aurex System 10: Still Playing After All Those Years
On the last week of January of this year, I was reunited with my vintage Toshiba Aurex System 10 hi-fi stereo set that I had been using in Manila since 1984. I purchased the micro hi-fi system back in 1982 in the commercial district of Al-Batha, Saudi Arabia. It was the height of the oil…
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A Tale of Two SSDs: OCZ-Toshiba and PNY Customer Supports Story
While we don’t want our computer hardware to fail at all, or even during its warranty period, it’s a fact of life that some of them do. In my case, I thought solid-state drives (SSDs) would be more reliable than conventional ones because the former has no mechanical or moving components. I was dead wrong.…