What day is it? It’s World Backup Day! Today is the day when you should start backing up your data — if you don’t already. When is the last time you backed up all that important data? Your kids’ pictures, tax information and other data you just hate to lose should be regularly backed up as [...]
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StarTech’s New USB 3.0 HDD Docking Station
If you build computers or do any maintenance on computers or just want a quick way to offload the data off of an old hard drive, then StarTech.com has a new solution for you. Their new HDD docking station supports 2.5 inch or 3.5 inch SATA or IDE hard disks and connects to your computer [...]
Why Do We Lose Power So Easily?
Ever lose power when the sky is blue? That happened to me this week at both my place of work and my home. While at home the answer was not clear, at work it was totally apparent. There is a pole in front of our building that has not once, not twice but at least [...]
Open Letter to Google: Fix Android Now
Dear Google, I love Android. Ever since Judie gave me my G1 I was in love. You had an OS that was pretty good then, even better now and getting better all the time. So I don’t have too many problems with your OS. However, the problems that remain are ones that are bad enough to [...]
A Linux Geek on Microsoft Windows 8 Consumer Preview
Now I know what your thinking: why would I care about Windows 8? Well, even though I am a Linux guy and use it almost everywhere, I still have to use Windows on a daily basis for my job as well as supporting my wife and family as no matter what I say, I cannot [...]
Android Developers Can Now Develop on the go with AIDE
In yesterday’s post about Post-PC or Plus-PC, I mentioned that you could generally not write programs on mobile devices. This is not true as of today. As I was reading through my feeds at lunch, I noticed a story on the Register about AIDE. AIDE is short for Android IDE or Integrated Development Environment. An [...]
Is it really the Post-PC Era, or Is the Plus-PC Era Simply Continuing?
Ten years ago I bought one of the first devices I ever had that could be classified as a post-pc device or as I like to call it, a plus pc device. That was a Toshiba e740 Pocket PC. This was the first device I had outside of a laptop that included wi-fi. I remember [...]
Buh-Bye Android Market, Hello Google Play
The Android Market has been around for a while now, but Google has begun using it for more than just Android apps; they have added Music, Movies and Books over the last year. So, in an effort to unify things a bit and get a less ambiguous name that describes the service, Google is re-branding the Android [...]
To Tweet or Not to Tweet: Is it Safe for Drivers to Tweet from the Track
A couple of weeks ago during the long and arduous Daytona 500, Brad Keselowski who races in the Sprint Cup racing series for Penske racing caused quite a stir while the cars were parked on the track during a red flag. He tweeted from the track. What did he tweet? Pictures from his vantage point [...]
Lightweight Portable Security Linux: The DoD’s Linux Distro
Michael posted about the NSA’s version of Android complete with its own app store. Well, the NSA is not the only government agency looking at bringing out their own version of an open source product. The Department of Defense has one too in the form of a über lightweight version of Linux called Lightweight Portable [...]
Digital Innovations Speaker Dock for Android Review
For many years, Android lovers have suffered. Apple’s iPhone and iPod had these wonderful speaker docks that allowed their owners to enjoy music without ear buds; plus many of those docks also included a remote that could be used to control the music from across the room. Finally Android users can breathe a sigh of relief, [...]
Keurig Introduces the New Keurig Vue Brewing System
Most of the Gear Diary team and many of my friends know that I love my Keurig machine. Brewing many different hot drinks from coffee to cocoa, my Keurig is my morning friend, and I’ve even been known to fire it up in the evening? However, there’s one thing that my Keurig can’t do — [...]
Arch Linux: Only the Hardcore Need Apply
In search of a different distro (term of endearment for Linux distributions) to try, I decided to try installing probably one of the harder distros to install, Arch Linux over the weekend. I thought I would gather some thoughts into a post and share what I think of this interesting distro that doesn’t get the [...]
Ubuntu’s HUD: A New Way to Use Your Linux Computer
Yesterday Ubuntu’s community manager, Jono Bacon put up a post calling for people to test their brand new idea for the Unity interface they currently use. They call it HUD. HUD will be included in the next relse of Ubuntu, version 12.04, code named “Precise Pangolin”. With HUD, you can do many different things like [...]
Lexar Introduces USB 3.0 Flash Drives
My new laptop finally has USB 3 in a couple ports and now Lexar finally has releases a couple new flash drives that may help me fill my USB 3 ports. First up is the new JumpDrive Triton model which boasts itself as one of the fastest USB 3.o flash drives available. The new JumpDrive [...]
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