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Putting Bheestie Bag to the test--photos

The Bheestie bag is used to remove day-to-day moisture from electronic devices, but has the potential to dry and revive soaked electronics. We tried it out. by CNET News.com

Tags: Moisture, Photograph, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2009-11-09

Workout with your iPhone? Keep that headphone jack dry

Just about every mobile phone I have used has a moisture indicator somewhere in the battery compartment so a rain drop here and there is not going to void your warranty. I have never dropped a device in water and have never seen this indicator activated on a device before....

Tags: Apple iPhone, Headphone, Battery, Moisture, Engineering, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2009-04-14

Are you sure you didn't spill anything in your MacBook?

Apple has taken their fraud protection up a notch in the new MacBooks by adding tiny Liquid Submersion Indicators LSIs throughout the notebook's chassis according to AppleInsider. Introduced in the iPhone and iPod touch then later in the MacBook, the tiny LSI's change from white to red...

Tags: Apple MacBook, Moisture, Apple Inc., Dot, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2008-10-16

Former software chief admits stealing trade secrets

Former software chief admits stealing trade secretsMessage has been deleted.How is it?How easy can it be to wash clean an organization that was infested at the very top - CEO - with criminal intent? You can hardly call this a rogue employee acting on their own. With that...

Tags: software, protein, irrevocable letter, Moisture, Cash stock T/T, Payment Details, Min Order, Country-of-Origin, payment

Discussion threads 2005-12-09

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Dell unveils 12.1" rugged multitouch tablet PC, Latitude XT2 XFR; withstands drops, spills, sand, children

Dell on Tuesday unveiled a 12.1-inch rugged convertible tablet PC, the Latitude XT2 XFR, the first multitouch tablet PC that can withstand ballistic shock, extreme temperatures, dust, sand and moisture. by Andrew Nusca

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., PC, Tablet PC, Dell Latitude, Tablets, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-10-26

My 7 favorite Windows 7 features

I must say ...... your impressive list, just isn't that impressive to me.#1 - Performance boost -- subjective#2 - More restrained UAC -- more duck tape#3 - 64-bit becomes the new default -- had 64 bit for years now#4 - Improved troubleshooting tools -- no comment, biting my tongue#5 -...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, UAC, Microsoft Windows Vista, favorite Windows 7, 64-bit, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-10-22

What's a brick?

CinderblockMany years ago a product called cinderblock was made from coal fire residue. It was similar to standard concrete block. In many cases, over time, it proved far less satisfactory. One big problem was degradation in a wet environment. It would get sort of mushy and...

Tags: ash, fly ash

Discussion threads 2009-10-20

HP's kinder, gentler stance toward printer paper

A question and a comment[i]"I am now shoving the paper that I just used to print a press release about the HP program back into my printer so that at least both sides are used."[/i]Question: For 20 years at other employers and home I did that and it worked fine....

Tags: Printers, printer, humidity, Hewlett-Packard Co., laser printer

Discussion threads 2009-10-20

JayBird Tiger Eyes Sound Isolating Earphones

JayBird first made a name for itself as a Bluetooth company, pushing out a line of stereo headphones with discreet-yet-secure designs that were made with the iPod in mind. So it was both surprising and not when the company elected to move into the wired market with two in-ear models...

Tags: Tiger Eyes, Jaybird

Product reviews 2009-10-06

SanDisk releases Extreme Pro CompactFlash cards

SanDisk has released a new line memory cards: the ExtremePro CompactFlash cards, which feature the company's Power Core Controller capability, an advanced memory controller that enables read and write speeds of up to 90MB/s1, doubling the performance from previous high-end SanDisk cards. Ranging from 16...

Tags: Card, CompactFlash, SanDisk Corp., Flash Memory, Rachel King

Blog posts 2009-09-14

Wildland Toolkit 1.1 (Mobile)

Wildland Toolkit is a calculator for Wildland firefighters. With it, you can predict fire behavior much like a weather prediction. Just enter the fuel, weather, and topography information and Wildland Toolkit will generate RH and dew point, fine dead fuel moisture, probability of ignition, flame length, rate of spread, scorch...

Tags: Mobile, Peakview Software, Wildland Toolkit, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-09-07

Review: JayBird Endorphin and Tiger Eyes headphones

As we continue to enjoy decent weather in the summer months and look to get and/or stay in shape there are a ton of headphone options out there that allow you to take your music on the go. In particular I have been looking for a pair of Bluetooth headphones...

Tags: Headphone, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2009-08-11

Your iPhone could soon be watching you!

Have you completely lost your mind?"OK, this seems like a great feature for product vendors because it allows them to duck warranty obligations"What obligations are there exactly if you drop your iPod into a bathtub, or spill coffee on it while driving? If anything, these nuissance claims get built into...

Tags: Smart phones, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2009-08-07

Optimum Ultra: So how fast is it?

Optimum Online's $99 per month Ultra DOCSIS 3.0 service is one of fastest residential broadband offerings available today. But is it really "Up to" 101Mbps as advertised? As I mentioned in a post last week about broadband service outages, Last Friday, I was...

Tags: Cablevision Systems Corp., Router, Network, Adobe PDF, Broadband, Server, NetGear, Ultra DOCSIS 3.0, CISCO DPC3000, Speed Test, OOKLA, SRXN3205, Network Technology, Routers & Switches, Modems, Home Networking, Cable, Firewalls, Broadband Internet, Networking, Telecommunications, Hardware, Components, Personal Technology, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-07-07

Motorola Rokr S9 HD - black

When Motorola came out with the Motorola Rokr S9 headset two years ago, stereo Bluetooth headsets were still fairly new, and the S9 gained popularity because of its sports-centric design. Now that more phones have stereo Bluetooth capability (including the iPhone 3G thanks to its latest firmware update), Motorola is...

Tags: music player control, Motorola ROKR, Motorola Rokr S9, Motorola Inc., Motorola Rokr S9 HD, headset, Rokr S9 HD

Product reviews 2009-07-01

Political gaming around the Waxman-Markey bill

Political gaming around the Waxman-Markey billEvidence for your assertions, pleaseWhile there is at least weak scientific evidence that man contributes to global warming (I do not trust it, but at least some studies try to make the point), there is none for climate change causing weather events like hurricanes. ...

Tags: Messiah, hurricane, global warming, Waxman-Markey, life saving, sea level, game, Katrina

Discussion threads 2009-06-30

Global warming: predicting unpredictability

Global warming: predicting unpredictabilityWell...To say that soil moisture doesn't affect convection would be a lie... but it is a very small effect compared to the large-scale circulation. The primary driver of the rainy-season weather is the formation of semi-permanent pressure cells, such as the subtropical ridge across the Southeast...

Tags: Global Climate Change, global warming

Discussion threads 2009-06-24

Global warming: predicting unpredictability

A black swan is being brought to the weather patterns for tornado prone areas of the U.S. Extremes. But in some cases bad news drought could be followed by good weak tornado season. Fall drought should mean fewer tornadoes in the same area the following spring. And...

Tags: Tornado, Global Warming, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-06-24

Camping with your Mac

Camping with your Macwhat about speakers...what about portable speakers, or a media player, but than you have iphones although its speaker is not the besti mean you can also go with a hackintosh, better battery and compact (unless you have one of the new pros with the 7 hr battery)if...

Tags: Engineering, Apple Macintosh, battery, inverter, car

Discussion threads 2009-06-16

Camping with your Mac

After having just returned from the Bonnaroo Music Festival in Manchester, Tennessee I wanted to share a few tips about what to bring if you plan to bring your Mac and iPhone for that matter on a camping trip. Moisture is the enemy of all electronics. When...

Tags: Car, Apple Macintosh, Apple MacBook, Battery, Apple MacBook Pro, FastMac, Engineering, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-06-16