Hard Drive Prices

On November 14th, 2011, posted in: Industry News by

If you follow prices of computer parts at all, you’ve probably noticed the sharp increase in prices of hard drives recently. This is due to flooding in Thailand where several parts of hard drives for all of the major manufacturers are produced. This has caused a shortage of parts to make hard drives, causing the [...]

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Windows 8 release date leaked!

On October 25th, 2010, posted in: Industry News by

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It looks like the Windows 8 release date has been accidentally leaked from Microsoft Netherlands.  It looks like October 2012 is the current release date.  If this is the case, and not just a rumor, then we should be able to expect Windows 8 beta editions early in 2012. After the success of Windows 7, [...]

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Best of Lawrence!

On October 21st, 2010, posted in: Industry News, UNI by

The US Commerce Association just awarded us “Best of Lawrence 2010″ in “Personal Computers”!  We are greatly honored and humbled to receive this award.  I always see these “Best of Lawrence” at great establishments around town, and am very proud to be counted among them!

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Malware infection chart by browser type

On October 10th, 2010, posted in: Industry News by

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Here’s an interesting site I ran across today.  It shows the browser infection rate of the most popular web browsers currently out.  Check it out.

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Ubuntu 10.10 is available!

On October 10th, 2010, posted in: Industry News by

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For all of you linux users, Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat), is now available.  Head over to Ubuntu’s site and pick it up!  We are going to stick with ubuntu 10.04 LTS for now on our inhouse fileservers, but will be staying tuned to how 10.10 progresses.

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Solar Charging for your iPhone

On July 20th, 2010, posted in: Industry News by

Are you like me?  Are you constantly running out of juice on your cell phone?  Did you forget to plug it in last night?  If so, never fear, solar charging is here to save the day!  Novothink has released an Apple-certified solar charging case for iPhones.  They claim two hours of direct sunlight will give [...]

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Yes, you can put in the batteries ANY way you want!

On July 2nd, 2010, posted in: Industry News by

I read yesterday that Microsoft, yes the infamous Microsoft has developed a new technology for batteries.  It basically means that you can install batteries (like AAs or AAAs) into a device in any direction, and it will still work! I know that sometimes the little icons imprinted in the battery bays trips me up, and this [...]

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