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This week I received the Snowflake Mic which is made by Blue. It is a USB portable mic, which can be used with the Mac, PC, (not sure of Linux). It is there lowest price model and I got it on sale for 49.00, and so far it was worth it. I have been looking for a desktop mic for
Wall Warts is a slang term used for power supplies (wall transformers) and are the little brick-like devices that come with almost every electronic device. So why do I say they are like socks? Well, like socks, they seem to lose their mate and you end up wondering where it belongs.
Today I did what I like to do on Fridays - Check out the Garage sales. We also have another place in Wisconsin I like to go on Fridays - it's called SWAP - Surpluss With A Purpose. The place is basically filled with government and University discards - including computers equipment. I have purchased many an item from SWAP
I accept that for portable devices that run off battery, having a completely seperate power supply makes a lot of sense, especially for small devices like phones and MP3 players. Why though, do appliances which will rarely if ever, move from the place they are installed need to have their power supply seperate from the appliance? I performed a quick
So I decided I wanted to update my TV Capture card. I use it only for one thing - to capture my camera for live streaming. I don't care about remote controls, I only care that it had an antenna and S-Video input. I got a deal on an ATI Theatre 550 capture card - which is a PCI Express
There's a new gadget out that will let you charge multiple electronics with only one USB port. I don't think it's intended to charge everything at once, and I wouldn't expect it to. But what a gadget like this would do is cut down on the number of cables you need in your laptop case. Which could be very helpful,
The Minister of State for Higher Education, D. Purandeswari, along with the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore and the Indian Institute of Technology in Chennai have announced that they will be developing a $10 laptop as a part of their "National Mission in Education through ICT". The Government is working on making a low cost PC and free bandwidth