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Best and Fastest External Hard Drive Review!

Posted on August 30, 2010 by max

For those of you searching better ways to manage your photos, videos, and other data.  Whatever they maybe, probably the best way to back them up is via an external hard drive.

An external hard drive comes in handy because it’s portable and you can always carry one along with your laptop.

I’ve been in the search of best and fastest external hard drives out there for few weeks now so let me show you some of the “best” and “fastest” options out there.

Also, let me note before we begin our review that the “best” external har

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Apple Hack – How to Remove and Rehouse Apple Time Capsule Hard Drive!

Posted on February 15, 2010 by max

One of the drawbacks of buying Apple products is probably its over-priced repair costs.   For those of you who’s Apple Time Capsule has gone bad and your warranty expired, you might want to try fixing it yourself.

Get your case put together, plug everything in, hook the drive to your computer before you turn on the power to your drive.  After being dead for more than a week, my time capsule(which I named The Delorean) came right back u

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DealMax – Gadget Deals for TODAY ONLY!

Posted on September 28, 2009 by max

I swear to God, Buy.com always has some great deals on gadgets, here’s a couple you might be interested in.  Remember this is good only for today and these deals never come back so take advantage.

First up is this Toshiba  1080P Up-converting DVD player for $39.99.  (REFURBISHED)  It’s refurbished but still, I would get this as I paid like $50 for a 1080P DVD player at Target couple months back and it SUCKS.

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Mac Hack – How to Clean CPU Fan and Replace Hard Disk on a PowerBook G4!

Posted on September 20, 2009 by max

Recently, one of my friends who is a plumber in San Francisco, gave me an old PowerBook G4.  Well, since I am not an Apple fan boy (sorry Apple fan boys), I’ve figured I can install Windows XP.

I ran into the big problem that Windows XP is not supported on a PowerPC CPU, which is what the PowerBook G4 has.  Since I do also run a bunch of linux machines at my home, I figured I could run some linux on the PowerBook.  It turns out the

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DIY “POV” Hard Drive Clock!

Posted on September 11, 2009 by max

This has to be the most “awesome” POV hard drive clock I have seen so far.  Not only it tell time, it does it in the most stylish fashion imaginable using RGB LEDs and rotating discs.

I’ve seen a handful of hard drive clocks, b

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Linux Boot Hack – How to Password Protect GRUB!

Posted on February 23, 2009 by max

If you are a linux user like me, you know the value of being able to password-protect your GRUB entries so even if your whole PC gets stolen, no one should be able to access your valuable, classified data. (or porn?)

When talking of security in computer systems one often needs to analyse the situation one is in and choose the appropriate options. If you have hackers getting physical access to your computer system the GRUB security measures won’t last a second (pretty much nothing would do). Your best bet in such a situation is to keep the hard dr

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How To Download YouTube Videos

Posted on February 18, 2009 by max

Download ANY Youtube Video – video powered by Metacafe So you found a funny video, and you are sure that YouTube is going to take it down, your only option is to download it. Do it for posterity. Here is a new video from how to download your favorite youtube clips

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DIY HardDisk Christmas Tree!

Posted on December 17, 2008 by max

Check out this really cool DIY Harddisk Christmas tree.  Of course, don’t forget about my Soju Christmas tree and the LED Christmas tree either.

At our work we were decomissioning six old HP/Compaq servers to clear up space for new servers and, naturally, each server had a fairly large raid array. Instead of formatting ev

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DIY – How to Make a Wall Clock from Recycled Harddrives!

Posted on November 3, 2008 by max

Remember the DIY Harddisk Clock?  Well, here’s another cool wall clock made from recycled harddrives.(or harddisks)

step 1 Materials and Tools Needed Tools that you will need for this project are: 1. Drill – I would suggest small DREMEL type drill with bench press. 2. Some Drill bits 3. Kit of Screwdrivers, type and ga…

step 2 Disassembling Hard Drives First of all you have to undo screws as shown in picture below, after that you’ll b

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Amazon Netbook Review Roundup!

Posted on October 10, 2008 by max

Here’s a round of of best netbooks you can get from Amazon today from our Laptop Blog:

Eee PC 1000H is probably the top-of-the-line netbook to get right now as it offers a 10″ screen,160GB hard drive, Windows XP, and Atom 1.6Ghz processor.  I like the fact that Eee PCs have been leading the netbook industry and you won’t be disappointed carrying this 3.1 pound beast in your bag. The battery life is estimated at 7 hours but I think as long as you get about 4-5 hours on this, that’s good enough.

There’s other models of Eee PCs,

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