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 speed and compatibility. My primary OSes are Windows and Android, both of which support read/write of exFAT. Android not so much with NTFS (at least
Recently I have been pondering the history of my personal computing. Past, present and future hardware and peripherals. As such, I am writing a few notes here and posting a few links there for such time in the future when I can truly flesh out this history of JD’s computing 🙂 Computing setups Early days – various 286, 386, 486 and Pentium computers that my dad used for work… some of my favs: Compaq 486C and a Dell with a
Quite some time ago I signed up for Amazon mom and subsequently canceled it. Now I still receive an occasional email from them (despite my cancellation). Therefore, in an effort to clean up my inbox ;-), I sent the following message to Amazon… we shall see how they respond! TRANSCRIPT: Hello, I canceled my Amazon Mom Membership yet I continue to receive emails about it. Specifically the emails are from store-news@amazon.com and when I go to the URL listed for
If you work on computers a lot then you know how important it can be to have the right tool for the job. 🙂 Thankfully, most computer upgrade tasks are handled with fairly common tools, but if you happen to have a particularly difficult upgrade/repair task ahead of you it might be worth checking out a comprehensive toolkit such as this one: I have the utmost respect for iFixit as they do a phenomenal job of teardowns and takeaparts. However,
Here is a link to the IRS Where’s My Refund site. 🙂 Once you fill out the required info and submit the form, you should receive a status report for your 2012 tax refund that looks something like this: Here’s hoping you receive a nice large refund this year 🙂 Top Search Terms:irs.2012taxrefund (3)irs 2012 taxes (3)irs refund status (2)expected refund dated wheres my refund (1)get status on 2012 tax refund status (1)irs 2012 refund status (1)www.irs.gov where\'s my refund
I was sadly disappointed in the performance of the PTV3000 miracast adapter’s when paired with the SGN2. Therefore I am trying a good ol’ cable to see if I have better luck! 😉 Top Search Terms:hdmi play won\'t work samsung galaxy note 2 (1)hdmi wont work with samsung galaxy note 2 (1)samsung note 2 hdmi cable driver (1)
Link to the Staples Coupon in PDF format 🙂 Sometimes it is a bit sketchy getting stores to accept these types of coupons, thankfully my favorite Staples actually had these coupons printed out and available at the service counter! PS this coupon also applies to Windows RT tablets 🙂 Top Search Terms:http://reg.e.staples.com/c/s/tagfrm (3)staples 100 off coupon laptop (3)$100 off windows 8 (3)100$ off staples (2)staples 100 off coupon laptop 2013 (2)staples $100 off windows laptop 2013 (2)staples 100 off windows
From REI, one of my favorite companies! 🙂