The reason this a part one is that this saga will actually continue into at least one more part based on the number of problems I had. I was pretty excited when Haswell was released. It had been awhile since my last upgrade of my main machine and depending on the outcome I was planning [...]
Here is a quick view of my new Samsung Series 5 Ultrabook. The performance you see here is after the SSD and memory upgrades. Other than slightly lower battery life than I would like, this is an awesome device for this price range. Samsung Series 5 with Corsair SSD Upgrade The first thing [...]
Tech Support Scams do not appear to be new, but I wanted to share this with everyone as a reminder that there are unscrupulous people out there. Here is the sequence of events that happen to me this week. On Friday (4/26/13) I received a call from someone that that claimed to be from the Windows Resource [...]
If you are like me you love to stream your content to other devices both inside and outside your network. The issue is the typically convoluted and unstable packages such as Twonky, tVersity, or PlayOn. There are obviously solutions like Windows Media Center or XBMC but they do not stream or transcode to mobile devices. [...]
As many of you have seen by now, the app selection for Windows 8/RT is growing in availability, but not necessarily in quality yet. There are still tons of third party developers that are releasing garbage apps which is making it hard to sort through and get something worthwhile. In my recent search, I came [...]
One of the biggest inhibitors to going to a VM environment (more in a later post) are USB devices. The worst of these devices are the Insteon Controllers. Whether using Hyper-V with a USB to IP adapter, or ESXi, I was unable to “reliably” get the these USB devices to work correctly or consistently. Add [...]
Here is a short video on expanding you RAID 5 Array using the Highpoint Version 2 Software.
I had a chance to test a Samsung 11.6 inch tablet running Windows 8 Pro RTM at the Microsoft store. Retail price was a bit steep at around $1299 but this unit had a 1366 x 768display, Core I5-XX, 4 Gigs of Ram and a 128 Gig SSD. The experience was very fast and smooth [...]
Being an avid user of the Wake-On-Lan feature in Logmein and various utilities, I was not thrilled when I found that none were working in Windows 8 RTM version. I finally isolated the issue to a new feature in Windows 8 that allows for quicker boot times. Below is how I got it to work. [...]
One of the best ways to protect yourself when you are out with your laptop or other portable device that requires wireless access is to use a VPN. Though not necessarily the most user friendly product to setup, the benefits in security can be worth the trouble. There are many ways to setup a VPN [...]
In my quest to extract as much usefulness as I can from my software and to make certain that my data is protected, I am always trying new and different options. Recently I was asked if AllwaySync still worked well with SkyDrive which made me revisit the possibilities of how to exploit this as well [...]
Not long ago I picked up a deal on an Intel 330 180 Gig. I had planned on keeping it and using it on Windows 8 when it was released, however the need came up and had to use it now. It replaced a Max IOPS 240 which I needed to use somewhere else so [...]
Back in March of the this year I spent some time testing Storage Spaces on the Server 8 Beta, along with the Storage Spaces in Windows 8. As you can see from my prior articles, I was not too impressed with the performance in the earlier versions. Now that they have released new versions, I [...]
Ever since the initial release of the Windows 8 beta, I have been both excited and confused. It was clear to me this would be revolutionary on a tablet or touch screen, but I have always been a bit confused about the desktop implementation. Now that we are on the Release Preview, I was hoping [...]
Every once in a while you just want to try something that you probably don’t need, but can’t help but being impressed by the cool factor. That’s pretty much the best way to explain the new Splashtop app for the iPad. When I heard about this from the homeservershow, there was a natural attraction and [...]
