Google Fiber: excellent in theory, disappointing in practice?

Posted on: Thursday, 2013.05.16 by J.D. H. in in Uncategorized,

My friend Ronnie lives in Overland Park and as such I have been keeping my fingers crossed and hoping that he will get Google Fiber ASAP. Unfortunately, that has not been happening. Google has still not announced availability for Overland Park and beyond that they are not rolling out very fast to the areas they [...]

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What is O2Micro OZ776 SCR Driver? [answered]

Posted on: Monday, 2013.05.13 by J.D. H. in in Uncategorized,

Q. On my laptop I have a program listed in my add/remove programs page as O2Micro OZ776 SCR Driver, do you know what this is? Is it a virus? Should I uninstall it? A. That is the driver for an O2Micro Memory Card Reader and you should have corresponding hardware listed in the device manager ‘Disk [...]

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Lenovo Lynx in-depth tablet review (frequently updated)

Posted on: Sunday, 2013.05.12 by J.D. H. in in Uncategorized,

Lenovo IdeaTab Lynx K3011 Review To begin with, some photos of the Lynx compared to an iPad (retina display) and a Samsung Galaxy Note 2: (I used The Verge website as the primary test/display page for most of these photos, primarily because it is a  modern site ideal for pushing the limits on these types of [...]

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Smaller iFixit toolkit

Posted on: Sunday, 2013.05.12 by J.D. H. in in Uncategorized,

More info: iFixit 54 Bit Driver Kithttps://www.amazon.com/dp/B008KOTNVA/ref=as_li_ss_til?tag=komparisoncom-20&camp=0&creative=0&linkCode=as4&creativeASIN=B008KOTNVA&adid=1B8FJSDN6VA6VZVCKJCM&Bits are hand picked by using the tool data from the thousands of free repair manuals on iFixit Comes with magnet tipped aluminum driver with rubber grips. Has a flexible shaft…

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Add torrent/magnet links directly from Chrome to uTorren

Posted on: Friday, 2013.05.10 by J.D. H. in in Uncategorized,

Sometimes I really miss firefox. What was very simple years ago has proved surprisingly tricky for me on Chrome. I am looking for a way to ‘single click’ and add torrents to a remote instance of uTorrent. So far I have not had any luck using this Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/remote-torrent-adder/oabphaconndgibllomdcjbfdghcmenci?hl=en So the quest will continue [...]

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New satellite internet review site

Posted on: Thursday, 2013.05.09 by J.D. H. in in Uncategorized,

My Exede review is one of the most commented articles on my site (177 comments and counting). However, having that many comments on one page (or paginated) can be quite cumbersome for someone simply looking for an organized set of reviews  (Exede or otherwise). Therefore, I have launched a new satellite internet review and complaint [...]

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NTFS or exFAT for removable media (SD/SDXC or USB)

Posted on: Wednesday, 2013.05.08 by J.D. H. in in Uncategorized,

UPDATE: my exFAT formatted 128GB SD card has been working wonderfully, I am happy with my choice of file system formats exFAT has been mentioned previously on this blog, but for the first time I truly needed to decide: exFAT or NTFS for my new 128GB SD card… In the end, I chose exFAT for both [...]

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