http://realmofv.com Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:10:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This weekend I got myself some upgrades for my home network setup. No, I haven't gotten my tax refund yet (in fact I am hardly getting any). But I just needed some more speed, some more space and some more energy to put it all together. Let me just list ... http://realmofv.com/2008/04/29/upgrades/ A couple of posts ago, I posted about the new feature of Google Maps - My Location, which I think will be very useful to get directions while on the move. Microsoft's acquired Tellme just launched an application for Blackberry where you can just say the word to find it. ... http://realmofv.com/2008/04/24/tellme-application-say-it-get-it/ You see companies putting so much emphasis on Search technologies today. This is not just limited to Internet Search and corporate searches. Searching products are putting the same technology on your desktops, workstations, home networks. While this is very useful, but some have gone to the level of saying that ... http://realmofv.com/2008/04/24/sort-search/ Earlier when I had to get direction from my current location to a destination, I would have to fill the current location. And when I was trying to get the directions while on the move, forget about it. That will take me stopping and feed the nearest location that I ... http://realmofv.com/2008/04/20/google-maps-with-my-location/ I have owned only 2 Desktops so far that were bought from OEM manufacturers and not assembled by me. The first one was a used Dell Dimension desktop that I bought while I was in College and the other one was a new Compaq Presario That I bought with my ... http://realmofv.com/2008/04/18/oem-software-good-oem-hardware-bad/ I was looking for do a cleanup of my registry and I came across the free Beta version of OneCare Safety scanner. Let me talk about the OneCare client that I already own. Some of the reasons I purchased this products are - It comes with a 3 PC license (perfect ... http://realmofv.com/2008/04/16/onecare-safety-scanner/ Every once in a while you come across a product that seems really cool. But on the other side you cannot even imagine a situation when you would need it. Aleratec 1:11 USB copy tower is one of those products. It comes with a price tag of $1575. ... http://realmofv.com/2008/03/20/usb-copy-tower-11-copies-of-a-flash-drive/ So, the PSU of my Media Center PC died. Luckily, this power supply was made by Ultra products which are known to make products of good quality and that probably the reason why they back it up by good warranty (it should have been a life-time warranty in this case). ... http://realmofv.com/2008/03/14/death-of-a-power-supply-rant/ If you are recycling one of your old machine to be used as your Windows Home Server box. But also want to give it a hot-swap functionality (like HP MediaSmart Server), I would recommend getting one of those multi-bay hot swap HDD racks. There are quite a bunch available at ... http://realmofv.com/2008/03/07/windows-home-server-part-2/ Nine Inch Nails are offering their new album - Ghosts I-IV for only $5 as a download. It contains 36 tracks. You can download in one of the following formats - 320kbps LAM encoded MP3, lossless FLAC format, lossless Apple format. As a bonus you will get a 40 page ... http://realmofv.com/2008/03/04/nine-inch-nails-new-album-for-only-5/