Storage Options

Well .. I decided to let you all have a little freebie of one of my 50 Tips and Tricks for the Average User. Enjoy!

What will be your 'File System'?
People often go directly to the main hard drive for storage, but the problem with an internal hard drive is it limits how much space you can have depending on how much money you wish to spend. You an get a lot more bang for your buck with external drives. Also, if you deafult to the hard drive, space gets filled up very quickly especially if you work with images, sounds, and other types of media. A widely used technology would be the USB flash drive. Most cost around $20 and can hold a Gigabyte of space, which is fine if you are dealing with text documents. But if you only rely on USB Flash Drives, you are limited to what you can store. A whole new type of storage is an External Storage Drive. Basically an external storage drive plugs into your computer via USB or Firewire, and can hold large amounts of files. Storage drives can run up to 500 Gigabytes, and if you get a "Drobo", you get like 10 times that. A Drobo is a storage robot that you plug multiple hard drives into, and it tells you when you need to insert a larger drives. It also protect your data from damage sections of your hard drive, retrieving the data that may have been lost otherwise. Although External Drives can run up to over $200, but its well worth it when you realise all the versatility of a drive.

Apps for the iPhone?

Well its offical. Steve Jobs just recently announced that the iPhone with have an SDK so all of you who upgraded to 1.1.1 and missed your iPhone applications, you can bet on them being back. I mean the iPhone is such a advancement in cell phones... why not take it further with so apps that will possibly make it one of the most versatile phones ever!

50 Tips and Tricks for the Average User

I am going to write a Article that contains my most used 50 Tips and Tricks about the internet. If you have any you want to add email me at area62b@gmail.com

Leopard .... Finally!

So, I know all of you Mac users have been waiting for one of the most awaited OS for awhile, Leopard of course, but you will have to wait until October 26th to get to use it. No, I am not speculating. Official Release Date : Mac OS 10.5 launches Friday October 26th at 6:00pm.

Now where have we seen this tactic used before? Take the iPhone for example. About 6 months of hype, and finally about halfway through June, they have to pick one of the remaining buisness days. So very typical of Apple.

The Price for a single copy will run at $129, and $199 for a 5-User Single Residence Family Pack. Nope, No upgrade price ..... we aren't dealing with Microsoft here.

ATA - Most uninformed flight attendants ever

So I got this story from http://consumerist.com. Basically, a Man using his iPhone decided to watch a movie on his iPhone, now while he was watching it a Flight Attendant came over and told him that he can't use cell phones on the plane. The man simply said that he was not using the cell phone part. The flight attendant left, and then came back later. After a few more times, they had to fly to the nearest airport, where police were waiting for him. After the attendant changing his story 3 times about why the man couldn't use the cell phone (which he wasn't), the attendant gave up and he was free to go. Complete story is here as usual.

1) Does this attendant have any knowladge of the current events AT ALL?
2) I think the man should get a BIG apology for being detained for no valid reason.
3) The attendant should be fired for being so completely rude.

Thats what I think, aside from the fact that the attendant is a complete idiot.

More Tech news coming up, there will be a schedule outage for the blog at 4 PM PDT.. though because I am on a school computer I can't find out why.

Hopefully a few more posts will be out soon.

Vista Strike 5,000,642

Ok, I never actually kept track of how many ways Vista is a complete waste of time, space, energy, a self space. But its up in the millions.

So The "Dutch Consumers' Union" asked Microsoft for Free Copies of Windows XP for all of the people that had bought Vista, but were having problems with the new operating system. Microsoft refused, boycott of Vista began. A much more "informative" post awaits you at Vista.Blorge.com . (Yes, that is a link to the post, not the website). I personally would like to make this Article a little more comical, and because I know what all of you are thinking (yes, I have finally achieved the title of "omniscient"!) I am more than happy to display your thoughts on my blog. (Enjoy!)

First of All .. RIGHT ON! If Microsoft can't use 5 years of Research and Development to actually program a decent OS, why the heck should you keep it?
and then ... Microsoft Refused ... Everyone knew that was going to happen because Microsoft doesn't like people not paying for things. Hence the "Genuine Advantage Program" that you get programs that probably come packaged with Windows.

Some of the problems includes printers, fax machines, and input device in general, also the computer was crashing and the hardware were slow.

There was an option started to let people with Vista move to XP, unfortunately for the consumer this only applied to Ultimate Editions and Business. Because where does Windows get its bulk of money from? The Businesses who buy 1,000 copies of the OS to use on their computers.

I am just going to put it straight out that I am not a Microsoft Hater, I love that they are trying to improve their OS and make it more secure and look better. Right now, Windows is starting to implement security features found in Macs. I love that they are allowing Windows XP to continue to be sold longer, and I think that there are so actually decent products out there. But Windows Vista was a big flop... and they are just going to continue digging themselves into a hole.

Also, Falko one of our new authors will begin to cover all sorts of Gaming news, while I will continue to be the Sarcastic Blogger that I am today.

If you would like to add anything that I have missed, drop me an email at area62b@gmail.com

Orange Box: Feedback Announcement

As we all know, the Orange Box was released on October 10 of 2007, including older games like Half Life 2 and Half Life 2: Episode 1 as well as the new games Portal, Half Life 2: Episode 2, and Team Fortress 2 (*Disclaimer: To all Halo 3 customers who chose to buy the game and take all the hype away from the Orange Box, prepare to get seriously owned in the ***). I will be providing reviews to all of the new games in the OB in the following month.