Intro The Acer Aspire V3-771G is a very capable 17.3″ laptop that can often be found for a bargain price if you shop around. However, one of the nicest features about this laptop is its extreme upgradeability. It is an easy machine to work on and with a small amount of work you can have up to 32GB of RAM and dual SSDs (or hard drives). 🙂 For a non workstation machine, this amount of upgradeability is quite rare! Upgrade details To give you
It has been unbelievably hard to use such a groundbreaking product as Gmail Blue and not be able to tell the world about it. Now that the NDA has been lifted, I can finally talk a little about Gmail Blue. Before the full review and benchmarks, which I am sure many other sites will have as well, I feel a word of warning is in order: +Sure, I love Gmail Blue. It really is light years ahead of the competition. Nobody else has that much Blue. Period. -So what
Recently Amazon has started posting notices like this one on some of its product listing: External token bounce back credit offer What exactly is that?! Well clicking the link did not show me any special offers so I decided to try it in a different web browser. That did the trick, the offer was for: “Take $30 Off: Upon approval for the Amazon.com Rewards Visa Card, a $30 Amazon.com gift card will be loaded instantly into your Amazon account Learn More.”
Q. Does the Razer Edge tablet support WiDi? A. No, it does not. 🙁 Confirmation of that rather disappointing fact: Razer support. Top Search Terms:razer edge teardown (6)razer edge widi (5)+razer edge disassembly (3)razer edge pro widi (2)razer edge wireless (2)wireless display razer edge (1)duplicate displays razer edge (1)does razer edge have blutooth (1)intel wireless display razer edge (1)razer edge laptop teardown (1)
Tablets are pretty awesome, but man can they be a pain to repair! Whereas a simple little notebook like the Acer AO722 requires removal of a SINGLE screw to access key components, something like the iPad mini is an exercise in frustration. 🙁 With that being said, here is a pretty comprehensive look at tablet repairability. Featuring the good (Dell XPS 10, Kindle Fire) the bad (Surface RT) and the ugly (iPad 4, Surface Pro) among others. Very cool stuff and definitely worth taking
A partial list of apps I have purchased for iOS and Android: Purchased via iTunes Midway Arcade, Atomic Web, Blogsy, Star Walk Splashtop XDisplay, Splashtop XDisplay Unlimited Plex CameraSync, v1.2.2 (4+) KyPass, v1.8 (4+), Air Display, v1.6.1 (4+) Top Camera, HDR and Slow Shutter for iPad, v4.2 Disc Golf Course Locator, v1.2 Disc Golf Course Finder, v2.0 BlurFX, v3.1.6 Halcyon, v1.2 QuickShot with Dropbox, v2.0.1 (4+) AVPlayerHD, v1.47 (4+) TextGrabber + Translator, v2.6 (4+) Panorama 360 Camera, v4.7 (4+) Max
I always enjoy a good experiment and if it involves a new web service the all the better. Tonight I am testing out the Google PageSpeed service: So far the results look promising. 🙂 As of right now only a small number of visitors are getting the PageSpeed enhanced version of this site. Tomorrow will be the real test, as that will be when the required DNS changes have propagated out to all visitors. As such, if you notice anything wonky with jdhodges.com
I am doing some research on a display dimming problem on my Dell Latitude E6430. Specifically, when using the laptop in a dim/dark environment, the display brightness sometimes varies with a sort of brightness-fluctuation. It can be quite annoying as it is almost like flickering. Perhaps the most frustrating aspect is that it is hard to replicate so troubleshooting can be difficult! 🙁 Other people have similar issues: XPS 15 screen auto brightness – Laptop General Hardware Forum – Laptop – Dell Communityhttp://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/laptop/f/3518/p/19452913/20123083.aspxHi.