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31 January 2010 ~ 2 Comments

Upgrading the AMD CPU on an Acer 5532 Laptop

To replace my 9″ netbook computer I bought a 15″ widescreen Acer laptop with 64 Bit Windows 7. The laptop comes with a 64 bit AMD TF-20 CPU which is single core running at 1.6Ghz. The real weakness of the laptop seems to be the CPU, so I’m buying an upgraded CPU on eBay for [...]

27 January 2010 ~ 1 Comment

Apple Announces the iPad for $500

So the Apple iPad was announced today at a price point of starting at only $500! The people at the live announcement were very excited and cheered at the announcement and why shouldn’t they?

iPhone, Kindle, iPad Photo Credit: Gizmodo.com
The iPad

is big with a 9.7″ LCD screen (like a netbook)
It can run tons of apps… but [...]

27 January 2010 ~ 1 Comment

Darntoothysam Folding At Home

If you would join me now and step into my Way-Back Machine, we will set our destination at Oct. 1st, 2000. Why is it that we are stopping on that particular date? It’s because that is the date that Professor Vijay Pande at Stanford University released his “distributed computing” client called “Folding@home”.
“But it’s 2010, who [...]

22 January 2010 ~ 1 Comment

Travel Photography in Minnesota

Minnesota is perhaps one of the greenest States in the United States. Its lakes and mountains make it a perfect place for nature enthusiasts and photographers as well.
If you love landscapes as a subject to your photography, here are some places that you may want to pay a visit on your next trip to Minnesota.
1. [...]