As much as I dislike their policies a lot of credit has to go to Apple and the late Steve Job’s vision for the macbook Air with how sleek and sexy laptops, or ultrabooks as they are being called now, can truly be.   Compaq’s latest designs of the ultrabooks powered by AMD’s new Trinity
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We are seeing more and more talk and speculation about price and I wanted to bring you an up to date report on the pricing for AMD Trinity laptops and ultrabooks as they emerge. I’ll be updating this post so check back for news and the latest in pricing.   $500 The first report is
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As we now know the AMD Trinity cores release date was leaked and is set for May 15th 2012.  Well AMD has released the GPU benchmarks and they are looking pretty impressive.. I’ll start with the GPU / graphics benchmarks below before moving onto the A10 cpu benchmarks afterwards.  The great thing with the APU
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Well the long wait is finally over, at last we have a date for when we can expect to get the new Trinity APU’s in our hot little hands.  Sweclockers are the source of the leak in a discussing on their swedish message forums and the big date for the launch is May 15th 2012. 
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Not sure how to do this in MS Office, but honestly who’s using proprietary office suites anymore, that is sooo 1998.  Well ok, so maybe everyone still is but I’m not and today I ran into the interesting question of how I create a header out of a row so that I could scroll down
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While I may have my gripes with thunderbird and do from time to time longingly look at evolution, overall the email client servers me well and I’d say that considering the wealth of extensions for it I probably under-use it (*note to self: research top thunderbird plugins).  However that being said I consider myself to
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After 100+ years of basically using the exact same platform paraplegics have a new mobility platform that looks to tranform their lives for the better.  It comes to us from a company called AMS Mekatronic out of Turkey and the device is called The TEK RMD.  Tek Robotic Mobilization Device has been developed by AMS
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Well this was a fun little problem that happened to me today.. Wearing track pants on shag carpenting means a lot of static apparently and at one point I felt a sudden jolt of electricity in my ear and then my sound card died.. Everything else was working fine, my system was playing sound according
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I got this headset the other month as there was a crazy deal on it that I cuoldnt’ turn down and immediately I regretted spending any amount of money on these pieces of garbage.  The sound quality on these is easily the worst I have heard in my life on a USB headset and some
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Wow, this was a 4 hour joyride today.  I wanted to setup galleria today, which is this awesome slideshow/gallery script that has a drupal module.  I got views slideshow working in a matter of minutes but as soon as I installed galleria and changed my slideshow type to that it dissapeared off the main page..
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