Hardware Reviews
Antec Sonata II
A review of Antec’s computer case Sonata II: it’s good. This is a great case for low-end systems, but it can also accomodate modern or higher end machines like mine. I’m running my computer with a dual core processor, 2 gigs of RAM, SATA cables and all that nonsense. …
Linksys repeaters (WRE54G) and access points (WAP54G)
Last night, I went to my friend’s apartment to install their Linksys wireless router (WRT54G), 2 Access Points (WAP54G) and 1 WRE54G (range expanders). I was able to install all products successfully last night. We all know that the WRT54G is a wireless router that can send signal to wireless …
NVidia GeForce 8800 GTS Mobile graphics card
Nvidia’s GeForce model 8800 GTS Mobile graphics card came in the Gateway laptop I purchased and have gotten to use for a while now. As any enthusiastic gamer will be aware, and even those with limited PC-gaming experience, the graphics card is the key element in playing any …
Philips Ear Hook Headphone SHS8000/00
If anyone would like some replacement earphones, say for the ones that come default with all Apple iPods, then I recommend you carry on reading. I have found out that the best type of earphones that you can get are the ones that go actually into the ears. …
American Lawn Mower Deluxe Hand Reel Mower
In my opinion this is a very good mower and it’s a great alternative to using a gas powered mower. It’s sold in several retail stores but I was able to locate it at Lowe’s. It’s priced at only 70 dollars. This is certainly a lot …
Apple Wireless Mighty Mouse
Wanting a wireless mouse that looked like it matched my Mac perfectly, I bought the Wireless Mighty Mouse at my local Best Buy. At first it was a very good mouse. One thing good about it is its precision. Response time is very quick for this mouse, making it …
3M MicroTouch M1700SS Monitor
I’ve been playing around with a 3M MicroTouch M1700SS touchscreen display for a couple of weeks. It is a 17 inch computer monitor with a 1280 x 1024 pixels resolution. It is a TFT LCD with a capacitive touch surface. The surface does not affect much the color and …
Corsair Survivor USB Flash Drive
My first thought when I picked up the Corsair Flash Survivor USB drive was that it’s huge. Much bigger than the pictures had looked online. I would say it’s about a quarter inch longer than the average USB flash drive, and a quarter of an inch taller. …
Canon i250 Inkjet Printer
This printer was a relatively inexpensive printer that is bare bones without any extra functions or features.
I have both positive and negative thoughts on this and although I would buy a Canon printer again, I would definitely do more research before spending my money on a printer.
This printer does …
Epson Stylus Color 740 Printer
I inherited this printer from my husband as he decided to get a multi-functional printer as part of the upgrading and rationalization efforts we have been doing in this house. This was originally used for the Macintosh desktop which we still keep because it has a lot of documents …
A4tech webcam PK-635M View Cam Pro
I requested a cousin to buy me a webcam as i’m living far in the city. I’m so amazed of this product as everybody in the house is using my pc, so many times it fell down and nothing happened. It was not broken and pictures are still very …
Trust Mouse (USB)
I have bought a couple of these over the last few years, and the only reason I have had to replace them is because I tend to be clumsy and break them. This is not though due to them being flimsy or fragile. The one I own is not …
Cd-r King Black Mouse Pad with Wrist Pad
By using an optical mouse, mouse pad seems unnecessary; however, I still didn’t discard my old mouse pad since I’m accustomed of having it. And I don’t have plans to do so until my wrist urge me through pain. With all the clicking and navigating for hours almost everyday, …
Canon’s cp720 photo printer
Canon’s cp720 photo printer is a one of a kind machine of its time. I purchased it two weeks back. I found several other features which i have never seen in any other printer ever before. It can print pictures even without a computer using a usb or a …
Nvidia PALIT
Personally, I am a computer game fan and I usually try to play the latest games as they are out. As you can guess, this makes me very interested in the gaming hardware also. Well, I call a graphics card as a gaming hardware as it is the most …
Linksys WRT54G Wireless Router
As broadband internet becomes more and more standard home wireless networks are becoming much more frequent as well. Arguably the component which is most important in ensuring a stable and fast wireless network is the router. In this review I will be looking at one of the more popular …
Sapphire ATI Radeon 3850 512MB
I’ve been in the process of upgrading the video card of both of my home computers and came across one that I really liked, the Sapphire ATI Radeon 3850 512MB. My two computers each have a different purpose, so my main concern was to find a great video …
2009 Snapper Pro 61″ Kawasaki
I have been working as a landscaper now for close to 5 years and have used many different types of lawnmowers as well as other types of lawn care equipment. With the landscaping company that I work for there are many different pieces of equipment that is specialized for …
Farmer’s Building Supply
My brother and I have been building stuff for years and years. We’ve built several Habitat for Humanity houses along with some really great people in our community. When it came time to build a garage for my grandmother we had to choose a building supply company …
Wacom Bluetooth Tablet
I really got the Wacom Bluetooth Tablet for my photoshop class I took as an elective towards my degree in international business. For those of you that have no idea what this is, it’s esentially a flat plastic device, a little larger than a mousepad, that has sensors that …
Toshiba Canvio 3.0 Portable Hard Drive-1.0TB
The Toshiba Canvio 3.0 is amazing! I’m an avid downloader so I’m in constant need of additional storage space. I actually own a few portable hard drives, but I prefer to use this one over all others. I like it in part because of …
Rust-Oleum Painter’s Touch Ultra Cover 2X Coverage - Spa Blue
Frankly, it’s been a long time since I’ve used spray paint, and when I say a long time, I’m talking decades, but recently I had a project that I wanted done fast and as easily as possible, so I went shopping for spray paint. The Rust-Oleum brand was …
Fiskars Composite Soil Scoop
I don’t do a lot of garden work but whenever I have to I use this thing. It really does come it handy and it helps a lot to complete tasks quickly without a lot of hassle. I purchased it from Lowe’s about a year ago and …
D-Link Wireless Router
Recently I picked up the D-link DSL-G604T wireless router to use in my home. I wanted something that would get a good range throughout my home since it is rather elongated as opposed to a normal square set up. My office is all the way in the …
D-Link
The D-Link airplus PCMCI wi-fi card is a pretty nifty little thing to have and let me tell you why.
First off, it is incredibly compatible, it works with nearly all my computers and better yet with most wi-fi modems/routers/spots.
This wi-fi card works pretty well even if far away from …
Acer LCD Flat Panel Monitor
My husband bought a fairly expensive 22″ wide screen Acer LCD Flat Panel Monitor. It seemed huge and I made fun of him for it for a few days. Then I finally sat down at the computer screen and was shut up pretty darn quickly.
First of all, this …
Pretec 32MB CompactFlash memory card
Although most digital cameras have moved on to using SD memory cards these days, I still have a bit of a soft spot for the older CompactFlash (CF) format. It is very robust, more so than the newer type, and because it is a bit chunkier than an …
HP LaserJet 1020 Printer
I bought a HP LaserJet 1020 printer 3 months ago for one of my project. I needed to print out good quality black and white graphics from one of my applications. Being a low cost laser printer in its range, I was not expecting a lot from the printer, …
Wi-Fi Detector T-shirt
Okay, can you say useless? Well this is what this t-shirt is. Honestly I’ve never seen anyone (who actually owns this) that actually wore it outside of the house, mainly because the batteries apparently seem to run out quickly (but maybe that’s due to the fact that I use …
Harman/kardon sounding computer speakers
These speakers were given to me as a present so I had no say in the matter of getting them. They come with two speakers for your table-top and a subwoofer. All three componentes are made of a hard transparant plastic. The speakers are about a foot tall with …
Netgear RangeMax Wireless USB 2.0 Adapter
The Netgear RangeMax Wireless USB 2.0 Adapter is an adapter for your computer. You plug it into a USB port, and now your desktop computer can accept incoming wi-fi connections! It is a very useful device that can make room-to-room wires a thing of …
HP headphones
About 8-10 months ago I purchased a headset made by HP, I must discourage anybody from buying this $30 rip off headset it had adjustable sides like most headsets do.
I would say it was heavily used about 5-7 hours a day about 5 days a week and 1-2 hours the …
HEX3 JaJa stylus for iPad
Well, you can buy a regular pen for iPhone/iPad/iPod touch at any Apple store for just $10 and then think - what do I need it for? To tell the truth, you will be having a hard time trying to answer this question unless you just want to work …
Mi Standard Keyboard
I am writing this review on my new Logitech keyboard because the Mi Standard Keyboard that I purchased didn’t last twenty-four hours before I had to replace it.
I don’t care what features come on a keyboard. In fact, I mostly don’t want extra features. Keyboards which have buttons along …
120 Gigabyte External Storage / The Free Agent Go by Seagate
#1 Really small!
#2 Really simple!
#3 Really affordable!!
Don’t be afraid, do it, you will like this.
“I procrastinated for awhile prior to trying it because I am 54 years old and that’s what 54 year old men do when faced with new technology.”
Even though I am easily confused by software applications this …
8 GB PNY Flashdrive
The flashdrive can be used in many different forms, for one, it is an awesome massively amount of storage device. You can store music, pictures, games, business files, or just any other files you can possibly think of! Some older computers don’t even have the storage compacity that this …
Viewsonic VX2235WM
I got it because it was cheap, and it does show, HOWEVER, it works quite well. If you’ve got the money, I’d definently go for one of the 24″ LCDs, they all have better panels, and the worst of them will be far better then any of the 22″ …
HP PSC 1400 All-In-One Printer
I bought an HP All in one printer, scanner, copier for our church office. It worked very well, even though it was way overused! We really needed a commercial printer, but the budget did not allow that.
I was able to print the weekly worship folder bulletin covers on this …
Asus external USB enabled CD drive
I always wanted to own a notebook and this year after a year’s saving I finally bought a cheap Acer laptop. It is a cheap notebook with minimum configuration which cost me around 250 dollars, pretty cheap but it doesn’t have any special configuration and is just an Pentium …
Logitech USB Headset 350
I purchased the Logitech USB Headset 350 about six months ago and have had wonderful results so far. I use it on a daily basis and it has excellent reception, I always hear clearly, it’s comfortable and the mute button is accessible at all times.
Also, it has a noise …
CD-R vs. CD-RW
I’ve been asked several times about this topic, so I felt worthy to let those out there who are not familiar to understand the difference between CD-R and CD-RW.
CD-R are compact disks that only read. When you copy something onto it, i.e. data or music, you can not remove …
MSI Socket FM2 Motherboard FM2-A75MA-E35
Recently I built my first gaming PC with a firm $400 budget. Since the motherboard is one of the PC parts that doesn’t really affect performance, I wanted to get the cheapest one I could find. However, after scouring Amazon for the best budget parts, I found the MSI …
Esys 17″ monitor
Esys 17″ color monitor with a dashing cool looks really rocks. The monitor comes in with a Black frontal display and silver back finishing and it sure is one of the most stylishly designed monitors around. The monitor is portable with the bulky back most of the other monitors …
Zebronic webcam
I recently bought Zebronics night vision webcam.The model is ZEB-480WC.This webcam 1.3 mega pixels interpolated.It has a microphone also with it.They supply this webcam with a c.d to install the required software.Though it is easy to install the software for those who are familiar with basic computer operations,some who …
Microsoft Touch Mouse
For somebody who uses the computer almost everyday, the mouse is the first gadget which is easily exposed to damage because perhaps we click it a thousand times in a day. We might not just know it but it is the most overuse thing in your internet life. While most …
Compaq Optical mouse
Compaq Optical mouse are one of the finest piece of assets to own when the question comes for its durability and efficiency. I bought the mouse few years back when optical mouse were a pretty new concept and were expensive. Ball mouse were not my cup of tea and …
Transcend 2GB pen drive
This is one of the few pen drives that comes with life time warranty, they have recently introduced this one which has a life time warranty on it. The space as the name says is 2 GB. It costs Rs.750 roughly equal to 20 USD. Ihave used this …
Hynix Aluminum Memory Heat Spreader
RAM is the heartbeat of a computer and it is one part which gets heated up along with the processor of a computer. I spoiled 2-3 DDR RAM mostly because of overheating as I use the machine for almost the whole day and so obviously it can cause problem. It’s …
Creative Zen 5GB
I bought this thinking that it was going to be a great investment, sure it had 1GB less than the ipod at the time, but it came with the charger (which costed 40 euro at the time)and it costed about 100euro less. Now i gotta admit that at first …
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