This is a video unboxing of the newly refreshed Mac mini.

Video reviews coming soon… Enjoy!

Back at Google I/O, we were introduced to a new platform named “Google TV“. It appears to be an Android-esque platform for manufacturers to be able to build set-top boxes and manufacture TVs which allow end-users to take advantage of IPTV offerings.

At I/O, we were shown that the Android Market is actually accessible, meaning you could potentially start using widgets on your TV. The Logitech Revue is apparently the first Google TV device we’ll see to market in the form of a set-top box.

Source: [fcc.gov]

That’s right, folks! HTC’s first 4G phone (wait, I mean the first 4G phone) is now able to be toyed around with more than ever before. HTC has released the source code for the EVO 4G’s kernel.

I smell (taste?) Froyo right around the corner. Hopefully quick because Android 3.0 (Gingerbread) is right around the corner. Let’s go, xda-dev!

Hit the download link below for the goods.

Source: [developer.htc.com]

Whelp, you AT&T/Apple fiends may find your iPhone 4 showing up on your doorstep one day early. Whether it was a mishap or totally intended on Apple’s behalf, you might want to check anyway. Apparently, you can pre-sign for the shipment so the driver leaves it anyway. Here’s the text from the actual e-mail that’s been going around:

Dear Apple Store Customer,

You recently received a Shipment Notification email from Apple advising you that your iPhone has shipped.

This email is to confirm that your delivery will occur on June 23rd. Although Apple and FedEx tracking information may currently indicate a later date, you can check the FedEx website the morning of the June 23rd to track your package to your doorstep.

In the event that you will not be available to accept delivery on June 23rd, it may be more convenient to use our pre-sign delivery option by visiting our Order Status website at http://www.apple.com/orderstatus.

Sincerely,

The Apple Store Team

It was apparently some video work that was turned in for a school project. So I redid it. I didn’t even attempt to upload it to YouTube, because they’d probably remove it due to copyright violations for using the original song. Here it is!

CLICK HERE TO DIGG IT!

Apple streamlines all of its user interfaces. I call it “dumbing down technology for the masses”. Any time I get into an argument, I pull that card against the Mac fanboy and it’s all over. You can’t deny that Apple dumbed down a potent operating system (FreeBSD & Linux) so the average Joe can use it without a terminal prompt or kernel recompilation. It’s brilliant. This is how Apple works. Get used to it.

To broadcast how much of an Apple fanboy I am not, here’s an interesting fact for you: I don’t own one Apple device. NOT ONE. I have a completely unbiased outlook on Apple’s products in the sense that I’ve used them before, they’re awesome, but they just don’t fit into my daily lifestyle. As a computer repair technician, I have to backup peoples’ stuff every day at work. OS X doesn’t like NTFS. They don’t play well together at all. And I can’t see any intelligence in gimping a $2,000+ Macbook Pro with Boot Camp, Parallels, or VMware Fusion just so I can spend $120 more on Windows 7. That’s retarded.

Back on track, you remember the iPhone hype and media coverage back in 2007, don’t you? Get ready to witness the same thing on a slightly smaller scale. Apple is spreading its iPad across the US at Apple Stores, Best Buy, and UPS deliveries on launch day. This will cut down on the perceived amount of success. But don’t be fooled. People don’t understand how it’s better than the iPhone or why they should replace their computer with it, but you just wait a week, or a month, whichever it takes. Apple will make billions off of this product. You. Just. Wait.

The Google video on YouTube about Google Chrome OS comes to mind. Early in their introduction video, they simply state that the first thing most users click on when their computer starts up is their web browser. That’s all they care about — how fast they can get on the world wide freakin’ web. And it’s 100% true! Other than e-mail, that’s a majority of what matters to Tom, Dick, or Harry. So there it is, web and e-mail in the palms of your hands.

Why is it better? Because it’s always on, has amazing battery life, and has a huge multitouch IPS display. People just do not understand the convenience that the iPad will bring. They look at the price tag and what they already own & know how to use, and they instantly judge the iPad without even using it.

Can’t multitask? It doesn’t need to. With push notifications for your instant messaging, I cannot think of one logical reason why the iPad needs to be able multitask. Especially not for the shorter battery life it’ll cause. Stop whining. Apple has so much money tied up in the R&D for the iPad that your bitching about multitasking just makes them laugh because you don’t see the full picture.

No external storage? You don’t need it! Buy the internal storage you need and be done with it. Apple not only wants complete control of the devices through iTunes, but they also want the end-user to have the best, trouble-free experience possible so they don’t have to hear people whining on the phone wondering why something doesn’t work. It all makes complete sense if you put one of Apple’s shoes on and one of the user’s shoes on. Try seeing both sides for once.

No camera? I can’t think of the last time I used a webcam. I really can’t. Once again, to give you a real battery life estimate, they cannot simply slap a camera in the iPad. It’s not only the power draw of the camera module itself that matters. It’s the extra processor cycles used to integrate the camera in real time frame-by-frame into applications.

The iPad will be a great success. Just sit back, watch, and enjoy. I’ve even printed comments from an Engadget post about how much people think the iPad will fail and they wouldn’t purchase one if it they needed it to stay alive. You’ll quickly see how wrong those comments were. In a few days.

This is also going to be a direct copy-and-paste from the NBR forums about an issue that I personally ran into. Credit goes to xzero101. Hopefully this can help someone! Click more to read on.

Ok guys, I finally found a fix for the random crackling noise in Win 7.

Here’s are the steps :

1) Unistall the “Realtek High Definition Audio Driver” from “Programs and Features” in the control panel.

2) Goto http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/…&GetDown=false, check the little box and click next. And on the next page, download the Win 7 (64bit) Driver Version R2.42.

3) The most important part is to install the driver in compatibility mode to “Windows Vista (Service Pack 2)”. To do this right click on the download driver setup, Goto “Properties” and click on the “Compatibility” Tab..After doing that just install the driver and restart your lappy.

3) After you restarted the comp, open “Sound” from the Control Panel. There should be 2 playback devices named “Speakers”. The 2nd one is already set as default driver, so to make your sound better just Set the 1st driver as default playback device and after your done with that, just mute the 2nd “Speakers” device by going to it’s “Properties”.

Finally your “Sound” window should like this :

The Creative software won’t work this method, so just uninstall them. They are kinda useless to me anyways.

Well hope this helps for anyone whose having sound problems with their G73s. Good Luck and Enjoy 

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So here’s the video! Enjoy.

I’ve never dealt with them, but Mwave.com had the best price on the Intel X25-M 160GB SSD. After looking up reviews on past experiences with them, there were good and bad – but the bad reviews seemed to be small problems that stemmed from the customer being a temperamental individual. So I ordered it with overnight shipping. This morning at like 2AM.

They are in the Pacific Time Zone, and I’m in Eastern, so I didn’t expect human interaction until at least noon or so my time. I did end up receiving an e-mail for me to call them about processing my order. Since I’m mostly optimistic, I politely called them, and was immediately greeted by an actual person but asked to be put on hold. This was fine, and I patiently waited about 4 minutes until the same lady came back on the phone. She asked for my order number and wanted the toll-free number on the back of my debit card to verify the transaction. Hey, that’s fine with me!

I then received an e-mail saying that my order had been approved. After checking my order status on their website, it still had not shipped. That’s fine. Hell, it was just approved. I never expected for them to ship it yet. I was just nosey.

I usually leave important tabs open in my browser, and frequently refresh them when I’m waiting on updated information. Refreshed it and not long after the payment was processed and accepted, the drive had a tracking number available via their website and I received an e-mail for every update to my order.

Excellent service so far, and an excellent experience overall. I may start doing more business with them.