What is SATA or Serial ATA? SATA or Serial ATA (Advanced Technology Attachment) is the next generation drive interface, following the traditional Parallel ATA (PATA). Anyone who has peered into a computer is...
Be sure to see my update from 9/19/09, at the bottom of this review. Rather than re-writing this guide, I decided to leave my original entries alone, so you could see my history with both SKYPE and...
Over the last decade or so, I've owned 11 laptops from 6 manufacturers, so I've had a fair amount of experience with a variety of laptops. Here's what I've learned, and why I like Thinkpads and MacBooks....
Updated 3/27/2009 What I hope to accomplish with this is to help and inform viewers on MACs and help them decide which MAC is best for them. PC users making the switch or considering a purchase should also...
NEW SELLERS BEWARE: Count the costs BEFORE you list. ( Just some tips on selling stuff on eBay. Hope they help. ) Here's a real-world example of the ridiculous fees being charged by eBay/PayPal: Backdrop: I...
What is sniping? Sniping is a sophisticated bidding strategy of placing a bid in the last few seconds of an auction so that your fellow competing bidders have no time to react. It is the intelligent way to bid...
This guide will discuss the merits of the three commercially available Wi-Fi router standards: 802.11b, 802.11g and 802.11n. Each of these Wi-Fi standards operate on the 2.4GHz band; that's why you may notice...
I'm writing this guide today because, as of late, I've seen a lot of shoddy, sometimes just outright incorrect information in Wireless Networking guides here on eBay. I'll try to keep my guide digestible...
Many apple G5 Tower owners wish to use an Apple 30" Cinema Display, some have learned the hard way that after purchasing the display they were not immediately able to connect it to their G5 Tower without the...
This guide explains some rules of thumb for buying hardware to run Linux. By reading between the lines, you can guess if Linux is for you. Last updated Jan 17th, 2008.I have a new guide called "The 2008 Linux...