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Recommendation for Dwight Silverman's $300 PC upgrade

Dwight Silverman's in the mood to upgrade his Windows desktop PC. He's looking to refresh the CPU, motherboard and RAM, and doesn't want to spend more than $300 ... let's see what's out there! by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: PC, Overclocking, Motherboard, CPU, Dwight Silverman, Dwight, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2009-03-03

Clearing up the 32/64-bit memory limit confusion

Today Dwight Silverman ran a great piece on TechBlog which examines whether folks buying a new PC are best sticking with 32-bit Vista or making the leap to 64-bit Vista. It's a good piece but there's one bit that I feel deserves some clarification. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: 32-bit, Video Card, 64-bit, RAM, Dwight, Memory, Flash Memory, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-12-04

Additional Resources

HealthVault clobbering Google in PHR race

Google may be LeBron James but Microsoft is Dwight Howard, and you don't pull on Superman's cape. The key to success in building a Personal Health Record PHR business, it turns out, is accessing the Electronic Health Record EHR data that hospitals, pharmacies, insurers and others have in their online...

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., E-health, Healthcare, Insurance, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-07-06

Famous Speeches 1.4.1 (Mobile)

Enjoy the most influential speeches known to man with this application. Contains speeches made by Susan B. Anthony, Mark Antony, St. Francis of Assisi, Napoleon Bonaparte, Winston Churchill, Marie Curie, King Edward VIII, Dwight Eisenhower, Queen Elizabeth I, Mahatma Gandhi, Lou Gehrig, Patrick Henry, Adolph Hitler, Victor Hugo, Harold Ickes,...

Tags: Mobile, Speech, SwampBits, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-06-23

CIO Jury: No cloud in our future

CIO Jury: No cloud in our futureIt will happenWhile the largest companies (Fortune 500) may run internal clouds, I am confident others will eventually run almost everything in the cloud.Security is an impediment. Surely from Amazon and others we will see some advanced VPN/virtual firewall offerings for their services...

Tags: SMART Money

Discussion threads 2009-03-27

News to know: Palm; Google; Apple; Yahoo's Bartz; Hacking Safari

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Palm: Demand tanks ahead of Pre launch; Pre needs to save the day Andrew Nusca: Google CEO Schmidt: China 'obvious prize,' Twitter 'poor...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Apple Macintosh, Hacking, Apple Intel Mac Mini, Yahoo! Inc., Palm Inc., Apple Inc., Desktops, Hardware

Blog posts 2009-03-04

Recommendation for Dwight Silverman's $300 PC upgrade

Recommendation for Dwight Silverman's $300 PC upgradeWould his OS allow this?I thought XP and up would have a fit if you made too many hardware changes, and if you replaced a motherboard...well, just add another $200 or so for Vista, just to slow everything down again! Of course, if he...

Tags: Operating systems, Processors, Dwight Silverman, PC Upgrade, operating system, PC

Discussion threads 2009-03-03

iPhone 2.0 - Time for some wild speculation!

So, the iPhone 2.0 announcement is mere hours away, it's time for the rampant guessing and speculation to hit high-gear! Dwight Silverman has done a good job of covering the possible features: Almost certainly, it will connect to AT&T's 3G network. Apple and AT&T...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Microsoft Exchange Server, AT&T Corp., 3G, E-mail Servers, Groupware, GPS, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Enterprise Software, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-06-06

Handicapping Windows 7's effect on Vista upgrades

There is an off chance that the recent disclosures about Windows 7 could give folks a little more comfort in their decision to upgrade to Vista once you wade through the various crosscurrents coming from Microsoft. Based on various nuggets emanating from the D6 conference, various leaks...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Kernel, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-28

Puncturing the myth of the invulnerable OS

I keep trying to come up with explanations for why rational technical publications continue to amplify the nonsensical research coming out of Australian security vendor PC Tools in the past few weeks. Jedi mind tricks? Post-hypnotic suggestions embedded in web pages served from the Southern Hemisphere? Sunspots? There's certainly...

Tags: Operating System, PC Tools, Microsoft Windows Vista, Malware, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Viruses And Worms, Security, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2008-05-20

Does running Vista make you feel safe from malware?

[UPDATE - This is a reposting of a TalkBack comment I made on Ed Bott's post "Puncturing the myth of the invulnerable OS": Are we disagreeing? ??? I start the post by referring to the PC Tools report (at the...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Malware, UAC, UAC Prompt, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Security, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-05-20

Friday Rant - Sony and Apple/iTunes, you're on the wedgie list!

It's Friday and that means time for another Friday Rant! Sony and iTunes, I just thought it polite to let you know that as of today you've made it onto the wedgie list.  What's the wedgie list?  Well, it's pretty straightforward really.  It's a list containing the names...

Tags: Sony Corp., Apple Safari, Sony Vaio, Desktops, Hardware, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-03-21

Big storage is watching you

Kudos to Larry Dignan for an informative post on the system that caught NY governor Eliot Spitzer canoodling with a prostitute. Modern information technology enables 24 hour surveillance of every citizen. Should we care? Of course not. Every citizen is a potential terrorist. You want to...

Tags: Database, President, Surveillance, Information Technology, Storage, Personal Responsibility, GPS, Government, Handhelds, Telecom & Utilities, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-03-12

Vista sucks - reality or perception?

Dwight Silverman asks an interesting question - Does Vista suck, or is this just a perception? Depending on who you talk to, Microsoft's Vista problem has its root in one of two versions of reality: 1. The operating system really does suck. 2....

Tags: Operating System, Microsoft Windows Vista, Perception, Dwight Silverman, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-01-10

Twitter's true magic

Looking at the Twitter homepage, one might assume it's little more than a self-indulgent dumping ground for trivial details about the activities of complete strangers. Journalists, including the Houston Chronicle's Loren Steffy, and industry analysts, such as top-flight enterprise software commentator, Judith Hurwitz, sometimes draw this conclusion....

Tags: Twitter, Action, Enterprise Software, Software, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-01-05

Just what's so special about Apple RAM to justify the crazy price?

Sheesh!  What is it about Apple RAM that makes it so ridiculously expensive.  $700 to upgrade a 2GB iMac to 4GB.  What is this, RAM for millionaires?  Is it coated with precious metals and stones and come in a box lined with albino tiger cub fur or something? ...

Tags: Apple Inc., RAM, Memory, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2007-12-31

Five secrets to faster Vista starts

Five secrets to faster Vista startsOh, great. Here we go again.crapMessage has been deleted.Same ExperienceMy biggest startup killer is poor anti-malware both on XP and Vista. On other systems I notice craplets, combined with trial anti-virus slow things down quite a bit.Let's sum up"If your system bogs down after...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Notebooks, Microsoft Windows Vista, faster Vista start, Vista Starts, Microsoft Windows XP

Discussion threads 2007-11-26

Five secrets to faster Vista starts

Oh, great. Here we go again. The wise old men of mainstream tech journalism are once again repeating the conventional wisdom that Vista is slow to start up and slow to shut down. They're wrong. I proved this to my satisfaction last spring (see also the first...

Tags: Sony Corp., Network, Minute, Start-up, Problem, Microsoft Windows Vista, Leopard, Startup Time, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Notebooks, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2007-11-26

The governmental-communications complex: net neutrality now!

This isn't about technology George Ou ought to be in marketing: his impassioned apology for Comcast's intrusive "network management" see A rational debate on Comcast traffic management almost makes sense. By dragging the discussion down into the details of cable's technical inadequacies he glosses over the...

Tags: Telecommunications Company, Liberty, Net Neutrality, Government, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2007-11-07

Is Grandma's Linux called Mac OS X?

This morning I came across an interesting post by Dwight Silverman TechBlog.  Here Dwight is thoughts related to the trouble he encountered trying to get VMware Tools to run on Ubuntu loaded into a Fusion virtual machine on a Mac.  Here's the background: In Windows, this process...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Operating System, Apple Mac OS X, Linux, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, UNIX, Open Source, Apple Mac OS, Desktops, Software, Hardware, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2007-10-22