Category: New Gizmos
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The Story of 4K (UHD) Monitor and Windows 10
After almost nine years of faithful service, my beloved 20″ Princeton monitor finally had to be handed over to the recycler. It was hooked up on most occasions to my server – which had seen three (3) revisions – located in one of our bedrooms. I was able to save it in its 5th year,…
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The Trials and Tribulations of Working on Vintage Macs — in the 21st Century
The world is constantly changing. More so in the very fast-paced environment of technology. These days, you have just bought a shiny-new, state-of-the-art phone, tablet, or any gadget today, and tomorrow, it’s already obsolete. So, while you were sleeping, a new feature or model is already being tooled in an unspecified factory in China —…
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My HP Customer Support “Horror Story” — or, why Amazon.com is the Best in Customer Service
On May 4, 2013, I purchased via hp.com an HP Pavilion 23xi 23″ IPS LED widescreen monitor for use with my new 2013 Mac mini. The purchase of the monitor was hassle-free. Ordered it online, and I received the order confirmation almost instantaneously. Bravo! Two days later, May 6, 2013, I received the ‘shipping notification’…
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Notes on the Blackberry Playbook
Embed from Getty Images What separates the Blackberry PlayBook from Apple’s iPad and other Android-based tablets? The answer lies in the operating system. The PlayBook runs on QNX which is a true micro kernel operating system. Apple’s iPad runs on iOS which was derived from its core Mac OS X. OS X was basically Darwin – an open-source, POSIX-compliant OS which…