Recent content by swoop56

All morality debates aside. The issue is the site charged a fee to "permanently delete" your data on its site and that info, which should not have existed for those who paid the fee, had their info leaked in the hack.

How do people get away with this. In 1996 I was 13, babysitting my 9 year old cousin and he called 911 just for giggles before I could grab the phone from him. It must have been literally 5 seconds before I hung up the phone. 30 minutes later, two NYPD officers knocked on my door saying they...

Call Samsung. My girlfriend sent hers in due to.charging issues and it was repaired under warranty. Took.about 2 weeks.

I have a Netgear WNDR3700 router. It's a dual band 300mbps router. Using a laptop with an Intel 6205 WiFi card which is also dual band, I've transferred files to my NAS at over 24MB per second using the 5Ghz band.

I actually had to deal with this the other week when my father called telling me his computer was running slow. The cause, as it usually is with slow computers, was bloatware, adware, and malware. Something was using like 90% of the CPU. I installed a copy of Kapersky that I got for free after...

I used to run that way long ago with a PowerBook G3, then with a PowerBook G4 but ended up getting a Wintel just for gaming. For a few years I've had both a desktop and laptop. But as of last month I just have the one laptop. A Lenovo X230. It's faster than either my desktop or laptop was. And...

No idea. Also my system does have the premium IPS LCD. Full Specs. Win7 Home Premium 12.5" Premium IPS LCD 2x2 Antenna i7-3520M 2.9Ghz to 3.6Ghz 16GB DDR3 PC1600 480GB OCZ Vertex 3 LP SSD Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 Wi-Fi Backlit Keyboard

I did make a recovery disk using the included Utility but didn't use it to Install Win7. I had an OEM DVD of Win7 from a previous desktop build and used that to install the OS. Before I did that, I downloaded all the drivers for the X230 from Lenovo's website. I did have one issue, I lost the...

Picked up a Lenovo X230 about 2 weeks ago and wanted to share my experience/joy. I upgraded from an Asus UL20A, which itself was a 12" laptop with a 1.3Ghz Dual core ULV CPU. So this thing has been a huge boost in performance. The day after it arrived I dropped in 16GB of RAM and a 480GB OCZ...

I use my Asus Eee Pad for internetting. Checking and responding to email. Web browsing, reading magazines via Zinio, playing games, watching netflix in bed. It's great. Much more practical for general use than a laptop.

My iPhone 4 started doing this awhile back and I put tape on it to sort the issue out. It kinda worked.

Damn those iPhone 4s specs are amazing. But at the end of the day the limitations of iOS and the smaller screen are still there and that impacts the user experience.

I really wanted to wait for the Galaxy Note but I really needed to switch carriers so I ditched my iPhone 4 on AT&T in favor of the Galaxy S2 on Sprint earlier today. So far it seems like a great phone. I love the huge display. Pixel pitch isn't as much of an issue as I thought it would be...

I had a Sony Ericcson for like 3 months in 2003 and then it just busted on me. Would not work at all. It was pretty cool because I used it as a modem with a dialup ISP via bluetooth with my iPaq to get online from anywhere. After that I bought a Nokia that I had for like 3 years. Then I threw...

I remember when I was 17, saving up like $300 to see a MacWorld Keynote speech just so I could see Steve Jobs live and in person. It was pretty cool at the time. I was also quite the Apple aficionado. I think the company has taken a different direction than I would have liked. But Jobs changed...