Feb 25
Computers – Replacing My Desktop with a Rebuild In January 2010, I purchased an HP Compaq Presario FQ 5218 desktop computer –a mini-tower – to replace an older PC which literally gave up the ghost after a Windows 7 update. One night, I completed a lot of work on the computer, then downloaded and installed …
Jan 02
Windows Video Editor | Roxio Creator NXT First, let me re-state what I mean when I say “windows video editor”. A windows video editor is a piece of video editing software that is designed to operate on a Microsoft Windows-based operating system. Having said that, I have used several different windows video editor software …
Dec 27
Blu-ray player|The Saga Continues In my previous blogpost, entitled Blu-ray Player|My First Blu-Ray Experience, I described my very first experiences with blu-ray players, both in terms of hardware and software. As I was just getting to understand the technology, I had to use the KISS principle, which means to “keep it short and simple.” This …
Dec 23
Blu-ray Player|My First Blu-Ray Experience I admit from the get-go that when it comes to Blu-Ray technology, I have been a bit of a Luddite. I don’t relish the idea of mu DVD collection, painstakingly built up over the years, being relegated to obsolescence. However, with the launching of Drewsim.com a couple of years ago, …
Aug 14
Satellite C55 Series Laptop|Toshiba For almost four years, much of my computer work has been done on what I called my first proper laptop, which was an HP G62-DX255 model. It had a bronze finish and was powered by an AMD Athlon II 2.0 GHz processor, and it originally came with 3 GB of …
Mar 26
Toshiba Toshiba has been around for a long time, since 1939 as a matter of fact. A product of the merging of two companies – Shibaura Seiskusho and Tokyo Denki – the mewly merged company was known for some time as Tokyo Shibaura Denki. The company soon received its nickname – Toshiba – but …
Mar 23
Lenovo Founded in 1984, Lenovo has developed into the world’s second largest manufacturer of laptop and desktop computers. This was helped by the fact that in 2005, it acquired the personal computer division of IBM along with its ThinkPad and ThinkCentre lines of computers. Lenovo has not only maintained the high standards set by …
Mar 15
Dell (previously known as Dell Computer, and now known as Dell Inc.) is one of the leading computer manufacturing companies, and has been for many years. Founded by current Chairman and CEO Michael Dell in 1984, it has grown from a very small company (with headquarters in college-dormitory) called PCs Limited into the corporate giant …
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