So I used to listen to a few podcasts over time, however, I stopped listing to them just not really sure why. However after having a lot of free time to listen to things on the radio at work and in the car as I travel. With this time I was talking to a friend of mine that gave me the idea to go back to podcasts, but with so many out their what do I listen to. I decided being that I’m into technology and I work with computers at work all day I decided to listen to a lot of tech-based podcasts. This list includes: This Week in Tech, MacBreak Weekly, Windows Weekly, net@Night, and Cranky Geeks. However these are just some tech ones I also listen/watch: Scam School, Onion News Network, and No Agenda. These are just the ones that I have found interesting that I listen to, I’m still looking for more podcasts to listing to both tech and no tech ones. If you have any suggestions for me or podcasts you like let me know.
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Monday, March 16, 2009
ASUS EEEPC 900 HA
After a long time of working with windows and needing a new computer I moved to the Mac side for the computing world. I mainly did this because I hated dealing with Vista even knowing I really liked the way XP worked. So instead of keeping XP or moved to Vista I decided to move to a whole new OS the Mac. I found it easy to do almost everything I used to do on my old PC onto the Mac. Well except programming which I ended up using boot camp. How ever I came up to a small problem when they realized the windows 7 beta. After hearing about it much from Leo Laporte and my podcasts I decided that I wanted to test it out but did not want to put a beta OS on my Mac with boot camp also cause I just recently had hard drive problems. So it left me with one problem how do I run windows 7 beta?
After much talking to friends listening to people and reading about computers I decided to get myself a Netbook. I wanted to do this because I thought it would be nice having a smaller computer to play with also because I decided it would be nice trying to run a beta that was supposed to be made for the small Netbook type computers. But then as many of you have noticed there are a tone of Netbooks out there ones from Dell, Hp, Acer, Asus, and so on so which do you go for? I decided I would get whatever one I found that was cheap but that could also run the windows 7 beta.
After much looking I found the Asus EEE PC 900 HA on eBay for $300.00 plus tax. This computer has a 160gig hard drive, 1 gig of ram, 1.6mgz processor, an 8.9” screen with a built in mic and camera, and wireless card. Down side is there is no CD drive and the keyboard is small but I can work with those two things. This computer had all I needed for my indented use and then some. Many of the store built Asus computers usually have a 4-8gig solid state hard drive, which is nice but at the same time I could not use that because I needed at least 9 gigs for windows 7 and I also decided that I would like more in a hard drive then just a small 8 gig computer. This computer also has nice power saving tools that you can set to turn of anything that’s not being used a time. Many computers do that but this tool just makes it a lot easier to do that with.
Overall I am really happy with getting the Asus Netbook to use as a test tool and all. Finding it on eBay was also nice and the computer came with in a day of me ordering it. As I use it I get a lot of people asking about the computer and where I got it from which I see as a push to a smaller computer. Even with its small keyboard that takes some use getting used to the computer is a great and cheap computer for the basic computing use. Not recommended for people that want more then a world and emailing computer.
Now the fun thing installing a OS without a CD drive……..
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After much talking to friends listening to people and reading about computers I decided to get myself a Netbook. I wanted to do this because I thought it would be nice having a smaller computer to play with also because I decided it would be nice trying to run a beta that was supposed to be made for the small Netbook type computers. But then as many of you have noticed there are a tone of Netbooks out there ones from Dell, Hp, Acer, Asus, and so on so which do you go for? I decided I would get whatever one I found that was cheap but that could also run the windows 7 beta.
After much looking I found the Asus EEE PC 900 HA on eBay for $300.00 plus tax. This computer has a 160gig hard drive, 1 gig of ram, 1.6mgz processor, an 8.9” screen with a built in mic and camera, and wireless card. Down side is there is no CD drive and the keyboard is small but I can work with those two things. This computer had all I needed for my indented use and then some. Many of the store built Asus computers usually have a 4-8gig solid state hard drive, which is nice but at the same time I could not use that because I needed at least 9 gigs for windows 7 and I also decided that I would like more in a hard drive then just a small 8 gig computer. This computer also has nice power saving tools that you can set to turn of anything that’s not being used a time. Many computers do that but this tool just makes it a lot easier to do that with.Overall I am really happy with getting the Asus Netbook to use as a test tool and all. Finding it on eBay was also nice and the computer came with in a day of me ordering it. As I use it I get a lot of people asking about the computer and where I got it from which I see as a push to a smaller computer. Even with its small keyboard that takes some use getting used to the computer is a great and cheap computer for the basic computing use. Not recommended for people that want more then a world and emailing computer.
Now the fun thing installing a OS without a CD drive……..
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Thursday, February 19, 2009
Tech
So I have been blogging for some time with my personal blog that’s more about me. After some time and talking with a friend I have decided to create more of a tech blog that talks about things in the tech world and reviews of products that i have tried both software and hardware. I will be including as much information as I can along with pictures as they become available. Note I’m just a computer enthusiast I’m not in the industry, i just want to share my information with others. Please come back soon as I am currently using a netbook and looking at the Windows 7 beta.
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