I thought it might be of interest to post about the gadgets that accompany me in my day to day life. I’m a gadget whore, you might say, always looking for another fix of the latest crap that comes out. That’s why the stuff that sticks around might provide some interest: if a device survives [...]
Hardware
Zarch’s Gear: A New Series About My Stuff
Published by September 22nd, 2007 in Gadget Reviews, Gadgets, Hardware and Hardware Reviews. 0 Comments
And this one is the sexiest so far, at least from this angle. engadget has the goods on this one; looks like it’s got its own proprietary wireless signal, so they’re thinking there will be no lag. Also, they’ve got a couple of variants, one straight optical, and one laser. The optical mouse they’re aiming at FPS [...]
New Contender in the Mouse Debates
Published by August 23rd, 2007 in Gadgets, Games and Hardware. 0 CommentsRudeboy and I have different taste in mice, but we share one thing: a fancy mouse won’t buy you any extra frags. Now, granted, you’re not going to get a lot of kills if you’re playing with your laptop’s trackpad or little eraser-thingy pointer. But I’ve almost always been happy with an ancient two-button optical [...]
Ben Heckendorn Rocks the Atari. . .Again
Published by March 30th, 2007 in Case Mods, Games, Geek Fun and Hardware. 0 CommentsBen Heckendorn brings gladness to my heart with his clever mods and amazing home-built engineering. This latest beauty brings you the Atari, including cartridge-as-sunshade, in a portable format. Here’s the link to the engadget post, and here’s the link to Ben’s page for this project. It’s not quite nuclear fusion, but’s it’s right up there [...]
I saw this thingummy whilst trolling engadget today. I think they pulled it off of a 1982 Firebird. You know, the sweet 6-banger one. (Side note: bless these times where we can have horsepower with reasonable fuel efficiency. I had a sweet station wagon with a 350 V8 that got about 18 mpg and had [...]
Additional NVidia GeForce Go Card Drivers
Published by October 11th, 2006 in Drivers, Hardware and Video Cards. 0 CommentsEarlier today, Zach posted about updating drivers for various NVidia Go cards and the frustration that usually comes along with that process. All notebook manufacturers who use these cards generally provide an ‘optimized’ driver that works well with the card and plays nice with the rest of the system. In many cases though, these drivers [...]
Updating NVidia Drivers for Go Graphics Cards
Published by October 11th, 2006 in Drivers, Hardware and Video Cards. 0 CommentsSome of you with laptops using NVidia’s various Go chipsets will understand the frustration involved when trying to update to the latest drivers. My laptop, a Toshiba Tecra M2 with discrete GeForce Go5200 graphics, is a decent little gamer at the KOTOR/Guild Wars/Quake 3 level. The problem is that Toshiba’s latest driver update is for [...]
Well, I mucked up the pictures, but I did a little work on the old system today. I moved the main tower into the bedroom (that’s my silver Lian Li case). While trying to sleep, I realized the thing is actually a little noisy with the fans I had in it. Well, I replaced my [...]
Windows on a Mac… End of the World?
Published by April 19th, 2006 in Hardware and Software. 0 CommentsWell, now its official. Apple beat the 1337 hax0rs out of the gate with Boot Camp. Question is… who out there is gonna actually use it? Historically Mac fans and Windows fans don’t mix so well. Its like getting any two fans of opposing European soccer, er… football teams together in the same room. Utter [...]
Well, I’ve been having some weird power issues with my main system, so I figured it was time to replace my old Rosewill with something a little more robust. I wanted to go modular, but I wanted something that would match my silver/red scheme. I wound up buying the Hiper Type-R 580W from Xoxide.com. Here’s [...]