If you ever wanted a heavy duty NIC for gaming and heavy duty networking. It will help speed up your gaming, and less freezing during the game. Because a lot of the cpu operations have been directly shifted to the NIC its self, thats why its called Killer NIC. The way they built this thing its as if you have a pc on your network card. If you ever build a gaming PC then this would be needed for online gaming! If Im going to build a PC any time soon, this would have to be included! hehehe!
Link: Killer NIC
Link: NIC Review
The other day I went to the Equipment Company (thats the name) behind BMW in Shuweikh. I had a few things I needed to take care of over there. So next to the heavy duty equipment, lifts, forks, and lamborgini tractor I see a Segway sitting in a corner. Then it turned out they are the ones selling the Segway in Kuwait.
Segway Price: 1350 KD
I was told by the sales guy that they sold a lot to advertising agencies and people taking them to the beach house. They seem to be very entertaining but to my luck this one was out of battery or else I would have tried it. And they are going to bring the new Segway models soon. I think there is an off-road model coming out!
Link: Segway
Is it just me or is MTC having some problems. Since a few days before Ramadan I was having problems. I thought they were going to disconnect me again for 1 or 2 KD! I thought they disconnect for anything and thats annoying! So I called them and they told me they are having problems with their 3G and switch my phone back to GSM. And to switch it back in a couple of days. I did that but still there are problems. Like my SMS messages arent going through. And thats in Mishref, Miseela, Bida’a, Rumaitheya, Sabah Al Salem, Bayan Area. Those are the area which I have been affected in.
Anyone else running into these problems.
I have a few requirements when picking an MP3 player, and they pretty simple requirements.
1) That the mp3 player appears as a hard drive and I can drag and drop files into it.
2) I dont need any software to communicate with the mp3 player.
So that pretty much knocks out all of Apple’s MP3 products! I really dont like being forced to use any type of software! It makes me feel annoyed with it! But no mp3 players operated as well as the Apple’s and had large memory, well except now.
This is an amazing looking mp3 player with a nice design that appears as an HD and has 8 GB of memory! With 20 hours of play back. And the price is pretty reasonable $250.00 for this much memory and a sleek player.
Ok how annoying is it when you charge something then walk away with it for a little while and then suddenly its already dead or at least half way there! After doing nothing. This involves a few things such as laptops, mp3 players, cell phones, and other pieces of electronics that are on lithium batteries. Technology has moved forward greatly over the past 5 years, but battery technology has not improved that much! That is what they have to work on!
You know when you charge your cell phone and use it for about three phone calls, and when you put it down its beeping like crazy and then it dies! That is probably the most annoying, but what annoys me the most is battery cell memory. Its what happens what you charge your batter too much and then it loses some power in it because you charged it before it was drained. The manufacturers tell you it cant happen but it does, that is why people replace there batteries! Nokia phones are a bit better then before since that they dont decay as fast any more! Some phones are pretty bad phones, but they have improved. My luck has been better with Mp3 players since none of the ones I have had have gone bad yet.
But my laptop is annoying now, since one battery is as useful as a paperweight. And the second one is going down the same road! I took it off the charger and 20 mins later it was beeping! I want to slap somebody who built the damn battery! What the hell were they thinking! Cant they improve this damn technology! And now whats even worse Dell and Sony laptops are blowing up left and right!
Tommorow is going to be the big day for apple! A big day for Steve Jobs! They will be anouncing their new products, whats going to happen, and spread some rumors. I hope they anounce the details of Leopard OS 10.5, and anything else they want to talk about. So for you apple people pay attention! Its taking place in the Moscone center in San Francisco. I would ride up to the city in my motorcycle to go and watch the key note speech!
Link: Engadget
Since a friend of mine wanted to check out some phones, I usually just go along and check out the new phones. And some of them look cool, and some people already know about. But I thought I would post the prices that I found. Maybe someone found them cheaper, maybe not. Some of them looked great! And some I knew would break the moment you walk out the door!
Sony Ericcson K800i
Price: 165 KD
Quick Summary: Light, lots of functions, best camera phone, and loud speaker
Sony Ericcson K610i
Price: 115 KD
Quick Summary: Very compact, fully featured, 2.0 MegaPixel, loud speaker
Nokia N80
Price: 165 KD
Quick Summary: Bulky, Good Camera, Lots of functionality, ok battery life
Nokia 6233
Price: 100KD
Quick Summary: Upgrade from the 6230i, better screen, 2.0 Megapixel camera, very nice design, best bang for your buck, Mirco SD not Mini SD
LG KG800 Chocolate
Price: 150 KD
Quick Summary: Looks cool, touch pad on the front (no buttons), nice screen, camera not that good, girls would love it because it looks fashionable, doesnt play MP3s, no expandable memory.
My Ranking:
- Sony Ericcson K800i
- Sony Ericsson K610i
- Nokia 6233
- Nokia N80
- LG KG800
I know a lot of people use KVMs and basically they all do the main job of transfering between multiple computers all on to one screen,keyboard, and mouse. But I needed something with higher quality build and for heavy duty use.
Pros:
- Quality of video is very high.
- Up to Four Computers
- DVI input and output
- USB connection not Keyboard and Mouse to the computer(I like this)
- You can switch sound from one computer and screen output from another. You can listen to sound from one computer and work on another computer.
- The Items connected by USB to the KVM will switch to the computer active on the screen.
- It comes with 4 KVM cables so you dont need to buy anything extra unlike other KVMs.
- I think it looks extremely smooth, and its very solid.
Cons:
- You have to be on the computer you want when you boot it up or it will go to the basic visual setting (800×600)
- It is known to have some problems currently with computers with nVidia motherboards.
Connected:
- Dell UltraSharp 2005FPW
- Alienware Small Case Computer
- Large Main Desktop
- Sometimes Laptop with DVI adaptor
- Logitech Speakers 2.1
- Logitech USB MX518 Mouse
- Logitech Wireless Keyboard
Overall: The audio connections are analog and not optical. Some people might see this as a negative but how many consumer KVMs come with optical audio? There is a connection for the audio out and the microphone! So you can switch between computers easily. I think this KVM does the job very well, and there are a lot of different keyboard-short cuts to switch different things between computers which makes it very flexible. Not just normally switching, so you have other options. I have bought other KVMs before, and none of them have included all the cabling with them before. I have given this product 4 out of 5 which is very good, but its because the problem with the mother board and its a little expensive, but other then that its a fantastic product. And it is also known to be apple friendly.
Price: MSRP $359.00 – Amazon $264.00
Link: IOGEAR
Rating:
This is rediculously cool! I want this! I dont know why! But it would be so cool to go underwater and bounce around! I dont care that it could be dangerous or anything like that! Because it isnt! I think that going underwater and then popping out somewhere would be cool. Its slow as hell, but probably damn fun to go around underwater! You can be underwater for 2.5 hours! Thats a damn long time! You can bring your mp3 player with you to keep the music going while you are looking at fish, and if you are attacked by fish know that they do not like that song and change it immediatly!
Link: Engadget
Link: UBoatWorx
This is the perfect gadget for those who travel a lot! It powers up any piece of electronic you have. They have really don an amazing job trying to get as many adapters as possible to work with their product. So you could charge your iPod, laptop, camera, phone, and even portable dvd player! Another gadget to add to my list! Even if you do have to buy the different types of adapters! There are so many!
Look at the list of adapters! List
Link: Engadget
Link: myPowerALL