Category Archives: Gadgets and Tech

35mm equivalents of various smartphones cameras (iPhone 5, Galaxy S3, etc.)

iPhone 5 4.1mm lens, to give a 33mm equivalent field of view (source) iPhone 4S 4.3mm lens, 35mm equivalent view (source) Nokia Lumia 920 F2.0 26mm equivalent view 16:9, 28mm for 4:3 (source) HTC One X F/2.0 3.6mm lens, 28mm equivalent view (source) HTC Windows Phone 8X F2.0 28mm (source) backside illuminated sensor HTC One V (samples)

Getting your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch to read your emails to you

You can’t tell Siri to read your emails and web pages, but you can use Apple’s iOS voiceover feature to read your emails and web pages out loud 🙂 More info here: Tip: How to Make Siri’s Twin, VoiceOver, Read Your Email on iPhone | iSourcehttp://isource.com/2011/11/12/tip-how-to-make-siris-twin-voiceover-read-your-email-on-iphone/That’s odd, I thought, I know I could get my 3GS to read my emails to me! You may be curious how. It’s an Accessibility setting called VoiceOver. So what I tried… Will Siri ever read

Best place to buy an iPad 3

My dad needed a new iPad and there was a question of the best place to buy it. For this post we’ll discuss the 64GB ‘new iPad’ with WiFi or just the iPad 3 as I like to call it. My recommendation for purchasing an iPad online is to purchase from Amazon and here is why: #1 no sales tax in many states, saves you money! Of as September 28th 2012 customers in CA, KS, KY, ND, NY, PA, TX and WA

Upgrade ASUS N56VM/N56VZ SSD & RAM

If you have a nice ASUS N56VM or N56VZ series laptop you may be wondering how to upgrade it for maximum performance. So here is a photo tutorial on how to upgrade the RAM on these particular ASUS laptops. You can also see get a feel for how to remove the hard drive & upgrade to an SSD as well as seeing the location of the wifi card. NOTE: A number of people have asked what memory and SSD I

Acer Aspire One 722 Performance Upgrades

If you have the lovely little AO722 netbook you may be looking for some simple and cheap upgrades. Here are my top upgrades for the AO722: Upgrade the RAM to 4GB for $20 or even 8GB for less than $40! Upgrade the HDD to a high performance SSD for less than $100 Add bluetooth by upgrading the wifi card to a combo wifi + bluetooth card for about $20 Add a Huawei 3G data card in the extra mini pci-e slot The AMD

Add bluetooth to the Acer Aspire One 722

If you would like to add bluetooth to your AO722, there are a couple easy (and pretty cheap) options: #1 Compact USB bluetooth adapter These are about $20 with free shipping at Amazon and this particular model has 600 reviews and an average rating of 4.5 stars The dongle is small enough that you can just leave it plugged into a free USB port Installation consists of simply plugging the adapter into your USB and installing the driver, if you hit