Author Archives: J.D. H.

ASUS RT-N56U WiFi Router Review

ASUS Black Diamond Dual Band Wireless-N 600 Router (RT-N56U) NOTE: Review will be updated once performance testing is complete… tentative rating so far:  [starreview tpl=16] Pros: +easy setup +small size +two USB ports! +decent SAMBA transfer speeds (6Mbs-8Mbs actual throughput) +supports NTFS on USB devices Cons: -cannot use external antennas 🙁 -unusual power connector (if the power supply dies, you are likely NOT going to have a compatible spare laying around) -unusual case design could make mounting/positioning difficult (though it does look

Movie Trivia for Oscars Party

Tomorrow evening my wife will be hosting her second annual Oscars Party. Everything is in order for the party except she needs some movie trivia questions for the party. We came up with the following movie trivia questions, they may not be the best in the world but they will get the job done! Feel free to use them for your own Oscars/movie party or event 🙂 NOTE: these movie trivia questions are not necessarily related to the Oscars, they are

Turn X220 Bluetooth ON

Today was the first day I used bluetooth with my Lenovo X220 ThinkPad. The process is simple, but make sure you enable bluetooth by pressing Fn+F5 and change the Bluetooth status to “Radio On”: Once you turn the radio on, Windows 7 will display various prompts. When you pair a device (in my case bluetooth speakers) Windows 7 may install some necessary drivers and then you should be good to go. More X220 Bluetooth info: X220 activating Bluetooth – Off by default

Razer Blade 17″ gaming laptop review

The Razer Blade laptop is one of the most intriguing ‘gaming’ laptops to come along in quite a while. There have been a lot of “hands on” previews posted since the laptop was announced but only recently have real reviews stared to come online. As I find real reviews I will be posting them here along with some comments: Razer Blade review — Engadgethttp://www.engadget.com/2012/02/22/razer-blade-review/Type Gaming Screen size 17.3 inches Screen resolution 1920 x 1080 Processor speed 2.8 GHz System RAM 8

Google Page Speed Service (speed up your website with Google)

I came across Google’s Page Speed Service today, here is the description of their service: Page Speed Service is an online service to automatically speed up loading of your web pages. Page Speed Service fetches content from your servers, rewrites your pages by applying web performance best practices and serves them to end users via Google’s servers across the globe.  […] You can run tests to measure the speed up of your site in a few minutes. Page Speed Service is currently offered free

Ender’s Game and Harry Potter

I have really been enjoying the book Ender’s Game. While describing it to my wife the closest similar book I could think of was Harry Potter. Sure enough, other people thought there were similarities too 🙂 Here are some links about the Ender’s Game -> Harry Potter connection as well as some bits about the Ender’s Game video game, comic book and movie! Exciting and unsettling: Ender’s Game: Battle School | Tor.comhttp://www.tor.com/blogs/2009/07/enders-game-battle-schoolI am frequently asked “Why hasn’t science fiction produced its own

Good ‘about’ pages on tech sites

While working on adding rich snippet author info to jdhodges.com I needed to wanted to write an improved about page. So I checked out a variety of ‘about’ pages on tech sites to get some ideas on formatting/style etc. Here are a few that I thought were either particularly well done, or that had something unique about them: About Netbooklive.com – NetbookLive.comhttp://www.netbooklive.com/about/This is a website dedicated to mini laptops and portable computers you can easily carry around on your voyages.

Camera sensor sizes

I am once again working on some camera comparisons and sensor size always seems to be a hot topic. The following links were helpful in helping me determine the actual sensor size (dimensions) for some less-common camera sensors… Unravelling Sensor Sizes, digital cameras, digital photography, photography, digital slr, camera recommendation, price comparison, photographic companies, camera companies, digital camera best prices,http://www.photoreview.com.au/tips/buying/unravelling-sensor-sizes.aspxOver the years we have compiled the following table of common sensor sizes for digital cameras, camcorders and cameraphones. We hope