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 🙂
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! 😉
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 🙂
From REI, one of my favorite companies! 🙂
The Acer Aspire One AO756 is a nice little laptop that is available for a quite reasonable price (usually around $270 USD). As an added perk, with a few easy upgrades it can be even better! The AO756 allows for easy access to the RAM (memory) and unlike many of its brethren, it actually has two memory slots allowing for up to 16GB of memory to be installed! The hard drive is also easily accessible in case you want to