One of the best interior decorations I have ever seen is the 5.25″ hard drive hanging on the wall in the room of a friend of mine. One of the rooms, in fact, but the most interesting ones, primarily used as office and, sometimes, bedroom. Each time I go pay a visit and we spend [...]

In the last few years, I started to think more and more about protecting the environment, especially because I see most people around me completely ignoring this. For example, I upgraded my video card not because I really needed more video juice, but because the new one draws less power, and now I am really [...]

Do you really need a new computer? Do you really need a laptop or another hardware upgrade to your desktop? These are questions I’ve been asking myself lately, and a bit later today I’ll also ask them when talking to one of my friends (he says he wants a laptop, I think he doesn’t really [...]

In Windows, almost every problem has two solutions – the fast one, and the one even your grandmother could easily understand. Usually, I go for the fast one, especially because I like to keep my clicking to a minimum, as long as I can type in some commands to get the job done (I know, [...]

I know this is a pretty hot topic these days, but I just can’t stay aside and watch, so today we’ll talk about the laptop vs desktop fight. While most things are well known about this whole deal, I will share with you some of my own thoughts and true stories, so maybe this will [...]

Every time I hear about Maxtor hard drive recovery, I say somebody is asking the wrong question. For a long time, most dead hard drives I saw were coming from Maxtor, so this makes me wonder – why still buy such a thing? Obviously, there are a lot of answers to this question, and the [...]