Entries from May 2, 2010 - May 8, 2010

Saturday
May082010

SSD’s – The Reasons to Implement Solid State Drive Technology in your Power PC

Intel is one of the major players in Sold State Drive Technology. When is it the right time to use SSD Technology vs. yesterday’s moving parts, rotating platter technologies. Intel's Director of SSD Product Marketing, Troy Winslow, discusses four reasons to consider whether SSD is the right fit for you.

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Friday
May072010

Hard Drive Recovery is hit and miss at best

Here is an interview from Tekzilla that will give you a quick overview of drive recovery methods and what to do to try to attempt data recovery. Very interesting interview with Scott Moulton from Tekzilla’s - Which Hard Drives Fail The Least? Sleek Cell Phone Booster, Hard Drive Recovery Tools, Adobe Reader Alternatives, Space Pictures! – Tekzilla Episode.

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Thursday
May062010

Looking for a Reasonably Priced Small Notebook

I've been doing some research recently looking for some smaller notebooks that will give me a little better function than a standard Netbook does. But I was looking for, was something that had a slightly larger screen to give me a larger working area on the screen and something closer to a full size keyboard to accommodate my big hands. Here are two systems that are lightweight and fit my other two criteria.

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Thursday
May062010

Microsoft Open Volume Licensing – What are the benefits

Don't let the pricing of Open Licensing fool you, in the long run you could save quite a bit of money by purchasing this option. There are a lot of extra benefits to open licensing that are not available in the less expensive OEM option.

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Wednesday
May052010

Microsoft confirms, kills Courier in one fell swoop -- Engadget

It is only right to report the demise of the Courier as since earlier this year I talked about how exciting this product concept was for me and several of my coworkers.

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Monday
May032010

How to buy Office 2010

It is important to note my last post for Microsoft’s Technology Guarantee that is running right now because there are some special pricing that you can take advantage before September 2010 if you are so inclined to. The current product offering for the Technology Guarantee works this way:

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Monday
May032010

Microsoft Office 2010 Technology Guarantee

You don’t have to wait. Buy Office 2007 today, get Office 2010 free* Purchase, install, and activate a qualifying Office 2007 product between March 5, 2010, and September 30, 2010, and you’ll be eligible to download Office 2010 at no additional cost. Receive an e-mail reminder when Office 2010 is available for download.

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