Category Archives: Hardware and All That

A Shorter Film about the SAGE Computer

Posted on September 14, 2011 by Jesse Zylstra

For those of you who do not care to watch the 20 minute documentary about the SAGE computer mentioned in our last article, check this one out from the 1960’s: (2:49) (Still has all the CRT‘s, styluses/light-guns, projectors, and crazy-cool … Continue reading →

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Man and Computer; SAGE

Posted on September 12, 2011 by Jesse Zylstra

Computer CRT monitors, printing, computer projectors, styluses, and networks — often, we think these things were invented towards the later half of our computer history, but in fact they have been around for a long time. Built in the 1950’s, … Continue reading →

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Google TV: Pre-Order Now Available

Posted on October 17, 2010 by Jesse Zylstra

GoogleTV devices are now available for pre-order. Google T.V. can be implemented into your current television using one of two methods: 1) Get a T.V. that directly supports InternetTV, or 2) get a small attachment device to use with your … Continue reading →

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Future of the Textbook: Kno

Posted on September 30, 2010 by Jesse Zylstra

Besides the paper, what is the difference between a textbook and a tablet PC? By characteristics of construction, a book has two sides displaying twice the information at once; but, a book simply can’t surf the web, play music and … Continue reading →

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Ink Jet Cartridge Refills

Posted on July 21, 2010 by Jesse Zylstra

Inkjet cartridges are extremely expensive, and more than a billion ink jet cartridges are thrown away in landfills each year (1). Did you know that these little [expensive] devices can be refilled? Since you are not buying the digital, mechanical, … Continue reading →

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Speccy: System Information tool

Posted on July 6, 2010 by Jesse Zylstra

Speccy is a System Information tool designed to gather information about your CPU, RAM, Motherboard, Graphics Card, Hard Drives, Optical Drives, and Audio Card and let you view advanced information about it. Speccy can tell you more detailed and advanced … Continue reading →

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Google T.V.

Posted on May 30, 2010 by Jesse Zylstra

“TV Meets Web. Web Meets TV.” Google announced this month in their “Google Friends” newsletter a service soon-to-be offered called Google  TV. Google TV is going to re-shape how we receive information through our televisions, taking the best of TV … Continue reading →

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Network Lights

Posted on May 26, 2010 by Jesse Zylstra

Note: This program will not work with USB Keyboards properly! There is a bug, if you begin to receive high network traffic to your website, high I/O traffic to your processor will cause your computer to slow down, especially key … Continue reading →

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Defraggler: Advanced Disk Defragmentation

Posted on May 20, 2010 by Jesse Zylstra

Defraggler is an advanced disk-defragmentation tool for Windows. It’s main advantage, in my opinion, is for XP Users since it allows you to easily schedule defragmentation whenever you would like it. Similar to defragmentation in Windows 98, you can also … Continue reading →

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The WePad

Posted on April 26, 2010 by Jesse Zylstra

“It’s just like an iPad with wheels!” Yet another corny-named product is going to be released in the near future, the WePad. Yes, another device that is as difficult to use as a computer, but can not perform as many … Continue reading →

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