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A first look at Soluto: Elegant anti-frustration software.

Soluto bills itself as “anti-frustration software.” At the moment it is simply a rather elegant Windows start-up program manager, but what sets it apart is that simple elegance and the wealth of...

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A second look at Soluto: Add-ons and Crashes.

Remember our first review of Soluto where we took you through the installation procedure, improving your boot time and what PC Genome might be? Soluto has released two new features this week, we are...

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Best of both Worlds Part II: Installing the Optical Bay HDD Caddy

It’s been a while since I wrote about my optical bay HDD caddy experiment, but the results are finally in. I’ve been running my laptop for over a month now with a Kingston V100 SSDnow in the primary...

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Router Flashing for mere Humans

I’ve read it countless times: flashing your router to DD-WRT to get more control over it and unlock more power. Sounds great, but how often do regular users actually end up doing this? Probably not...

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Computers and College Part I: How do I choose?

It’s that time of year: school starts soon for many college students in the US and elsewhere, and many are looking for the perfect laptop to take with them. From typing papers to entertainment, a...

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Computers and College Part II: Saving Money

Now that you’ve decided what computer you want to take with you to college, how can you save some money? Here are some tricks for getting the best hardware and software for your money. Saving on...

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It’s Saturday night: Do you know where your Laptop is?

Say you take your laptop to the coffee shop with you.  You walk away to get your drink, and when you turn around it’s gone. This happens all the time, opportunistic thieves see an untethered laptop and...

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The Ideapad Y570

Lenovo Y570 – The Review I had wanted for a long time to save up for my own computer – sharing with the family just wasn’t optimal anymore. So a few months later, I browsed through laptops, and settled...

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Windows 8 & Metro with Mouse and Keyboard

If you haven’t been living under a rock for the last few months, you probably know all of the following: Windows 8 is the name of Microsoft’s new version of the operating system. Windows 8 sports...

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Keyboard Capers–A Field Guide to Keyboards

  Most of us don’t give our keyboards (or mice, I suppose) a second thought. Most of my keyboards tended to be budget logitechs, which while decent lack a certain something. I preferred the ThinkPad...

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What laptop should I buy for college? (2013 edition)

‘Tis the season: as family and friends head off to college, the requests for laptop recommendations start rolling in. It’s a semi-annual tradition for me to blog about my recommendations, so let’s get...

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Best of both worlds round 3: mSATA SSDs

As SSDs become increasingly affordable, making the switch is increasingly tempting. However, there are very few drives with over 512GB of capacity, and those that exist are still far from affordable....

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