Category «TechStuff»

Why do you use yahoo, hotmail, work email accts?

Just wondering why people rely on email accounts like yahoo, hotmail, work or even cable co/dsl email accounts for personal email. What if those companies get acquired, change their name, you quit, etc. It would be like changing your phone number and not telling anyone Now in the old days, yahoo/hotmail was cool cuz it …

Best Wireless Router

I’ve been using a Belkin Pre-N router for a while and found that it “was” unmatched in range, even using plain G clients. However, the router’s features are pretty barebones and Belkin never seemed committed to improving things. Now, Linksys is pretty solid but limited in the feature area quite surprisingly. I’ve always like DLink, …

New tiny Sony VAIO portable PC

Sony’s VGN-UX50 is a real mini-PC with an Intel Centrino 1.06GHz processor running Windows XP. (Note that this is not a UMPC. Supposedly it runs full�XP Pro)There’s a separately available Bluetooth GPS unit, two built-in cameras and it takes just five seconds to start up from standby mode. We like that hideaway keyboard, the 4.5-inch …