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Viewsonic released today their latest mini pc, the VOT125 which uses 90% less plastic that other similar mini nettops. For more information please read the press release below. Press release ViewSonic® Leads the Way to Smarter, Greener Computing with New PC Mini ViewSonic’s VOT125 PC Mini provides compact, energy saving solution for business and home [...]

Ever since I started to code stuff in different programming languages I thought that if I want to add 2 numbers I would use the ‘+’ operator. If I want to make a subtraction I would use the ‘-’ operator. To make a multiplication or a division I would use the ‘*’, respectively ‘/’ operator. [...]

Apple’s designs are astonishing. But you can’t really pay a lot of money on something just because it looks great, right? I mean, I have a cell phone (SonyEricsson K800i) that is 3 years old and I wouldn’t change it for the world because it has all the features that I need, it works and [...]

We all know that with a little free time, a little skill and technical knowledge, a man can create virtually anything. Stumbling the web for cool and interesting articles, I came across a man with a lot of free time, a lot of skill and a lot of talent and imagination. He created a sand [...]

Presenting one of the thinnest HDD’s out there. The Momentus Thin has only a 7mm thickness and is 2.5 mm thinner than it’s competitors and promises to bring even thinner netbooks. It will be available in 2 capacities, 160GB respectively 250GB, spins at 5400rpm and will have 8MB buffer. “Momentus Thin promises to help computer [...]

Adobe – came from name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of founder John Warnock. Apache – It got its name because its founders got started by applying patches to code written for NCSA’s httpd daemon. The result was ‘A PAtCHy’ server – thus, the name Apache Apple Computers – favorite [...]

A few years back I was reading about the Roadrunner supercomputer but now it seems that we can buy our own supercomputer from nVidia. Pretty weird though because I always thought that IBM or Intel will be the first to make a supercomputer for the masses. Well, nVidia did it first. Let’s see it’s specs [...]

I see a lot of websites daily. I see lot’s of gadgets, concepts, reviews, tutorials, you name it. Every once in a while I see something that I would like to own. This little laptop is just beautiful. Not too practical and fast to use (because of the folded keyboard) but very interesting. The iWeb [...]

I’m a huge fan of the progressive metal band Dream Theater and I love to play their tunes on the guitar. Having said that, I know that sheet music is a little hard to understand for some people when they see the song notes for the first time. To come in the aid of those [...]

We all hang our USB flash drives to our key chains because we don’t want to forget to take them (I mean… you don’t normally forget to take your keys with you, right?!). So, to have a more natural look of the key chain that should have keys hanging on it (you know.. it’s a [...]