Category: technology

  • Dan’s Ad Data

    I think I’ll miss those special advertisements, that only ever appear in computer magazines, when they finally die out completely. You know the ones I mean. via No spaceship? No sale..

  • OWC Mercury On-The-Go SATA Case Review

    After the futile Tango Pro review, I’m ready for all kinds of unexpected failures in attempting to fit this over-sized hard-drive behemoth into a case designed for regular 2.5″ SATA drives. OWC was theoretically ready for this situation with their OWC Mercury On-The-Go enclosure. It is available in a variety of port configurations, but I…

  • NameCheap IPv6 Glue: Not Very Adhesive; Sort of Annoying

    So NameCheap finally announced IPv6 glue support and I was quite happy to hear this. I’ve been digging into IPv6 a lot because I’ve become part of an IPv6 project at work (deployment, training, and consulting for customers) so this announcement was perfectly timed. Well, I followed Mr. AlexS’s instructions to no avail. It’s almost…

  • Andy Ihnatko sums up the Android UI perfectly

    In his double-feature review of the HTC Droid Incredible and the Sprint EVO Andy Ihnatko summed it up perfectly when he said: Working with any user interface developed by Google is like making out with Mister Spock. The company rarely demonstrates any sort of a working understanding of what the Humans respond to and doesn’t…

  • Adesso Mechanical Keyboard MKB-135B Review

    There are a lot of reasons to be interested in mechanical keyboards over rubber-dome models. Much of what I could tell you about rubber-dome keyboards versus mechanical switching has been already said. Rather than reinventing the wheel we’ll reread a classic part of what Dan said about mechanical keyboards: The big deal about these old keyboards…