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Why Are so Many Geeks into Photography?

Swan I never understood the reason behind so many geeks being obsessed with cameras before I actually started taking pictures. That was because I never really understood how to take a good picture. It is very technical.

First, you have to understand the various settings on the camera. You can go out and use auto mode, but you might as well just have a point in shoot camera. To get the most out of a camera you should really learn it inside and out. This is like any other technical project. Understand the hardware so its just second nature. Continue Reading »

Gaming Laptop Options

When looking for a gaming on a laptop the price is going to start around $1500 and go up from there. You can game on any system, but depending on the games you will need an extremely power machine. If you want to play Crysis wonderfully you will need to spend about $4000. Continue Reading »

My Hardware

The following is a list of my current hardware. I will try to keep this up-to-date when things change from time to time. Continue Reading »

Why Does Technology Break When the Warranty is up?

Something that is always humorous with technology is warranties. It seems that technology loves to break down within a month after a warranty is up. If you buy an extended warranty the product will inevitably last until that is over and then break. Is this a real fact or something that just always seems like a coincidence? Continue Reading »

Choosing Dell is a Mistake

For the past five years I have recommended Dell products to everyone I know as it was the one brand I could always believe in. Today I can no longer do this; the products have gone downhill so much that I will not stake my name on the Dell name. The final straw came today while working on one of my coworkers laptops where the battery has died for a second time in a year and a half. Continue Reading »

The Reason Tech Support is Outsourced

Same routine, but live

Both of these videos are quite old, but are just as accurate today. The software might be different today, but we’ve all had those twelve o’clock flashers in the past.

You can find more videos by this guy at his site Dead Trolls. The site looks like its stuck in ‘98, the content is worth dealing with frames.

Right Price for Tech Support

I’ve been thinking about implementing a dynamic price for tech support depending on many factors. This is what I am thinking of charging per hour: Continue Reading »

Four Stages of Computer Literacy

There are four stages to technology literacy; ignorant, tolerant, instructor, and researcher. When you look at each of these categories it can mean a wide verity of concepts. Let’s take a look at each of them to see where you might fit in.

The first stage I call the ignorance stage, the person will often say things like “I don’t care how it works; I just want it to work.” This group is often scared of technology as they have no idea how it functions. The people do not want to do anything on a computer because they are afraid they will break it. Continue Reading »

Teaching Binary with Wood

Learning binary can be painful if not taught by a good teacher. One of the most complex aspects of binary is adding binary numbers together which is known as ANDing. That is where the device below comes into play, it visually shows exactly how ANDing works. Continue Reading »

Microsoft Wireless Laser Mouse 5000 Review

After making a error in judgment and leaving my old mouse on the floor to have my dog chew through the cable it was time to get a new external mouse. Seeing that the odds are fairly high that I would make the same mistake again I decided to go with a wireless mouse to avoid the pain of walking in the door to find my mouse cable in a four pieces. After reading through quite a few reviews I decided to go with the Microsoft Wireless Laser Mouse 5000. Continue Reading »