Posts Filed Under — Computers

[ October 20th, 2008 ] ... [ C. S. Magor ]

Hazzah, Windows Vista SP2 Under Development

he best operating system on the market is just about to get better. Microsoft has announced that not only will they develop SP2 before the release of Windows 7, but that it is already under development. In other news, I can’t get the keychain wireless adapter that I bought to function with Vista 64 and [...]

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[ October 16th, 2008 ] ... [ C. S. Magor ]

Amex Digital Doesn’t Seem to be Entering a World of Hurt With Their Mac-Ready Blu-ray Superdrive

Amex Digital has gone and brought out a Blu-ray superdrive that is both Mac and PC compatible; and at a reasonable price too. It comes in black or white, features Quiet Drive, which is a noise reducing technology and connects to your Mac or Windows-based PC via USB.
Price: $269.99 [I4U News via Slashgear]

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[ October 14th, 2008 ] ... [ C. S. Magor ]

Super Secure Laptop Concept Features Potentially Wrist-cramping Security Knob

This concept laptop, which is the work of one Nicolas Lehotzky includes an enormous security knob, which is fingerprint activated and acts as a physical lock for the computer. The laptop also hides the USB ports and features a built in paper shredder. It doesn’t look like a whole lot of thought has gone into [...]

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[ October 13th, 2008 ] ... [ C. S. Magor ]

Battlestar Galactica PC a Triumph of Uber-Geeky Ingenuity

The casemod that you see above is quite the masterpiece. Aside from the laser-cut logo, there is a very neat front loading DVD drive in there and plenty of LEDs, which are pretty much compulsory in this sort of project. [Gizmodo via Bit Tech, Tech E Blog]

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[ October 8th, 2008 ] ... [ C. S. Magor ]

Convert DOCX to DOC and Squeeze a Little More Mileage out of Office ‘03 Thanks to Microsoft

On a given day, I typically handle about 15-20 individual document submissions, which is a breeze on my Mac Book Pro and my Vista Desktop, which run the Windows version of Office ‘07, but a pain on my work desktop which has Office ‘03 - Japanese version. I finally got one DOCX submission too many [...]

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