Barry on November 26th, 2008

I have acquired, at least temporarily, a BlackBerry Curve 8330 for play; This was a great disappointment to more technical minded members of the family who wanted me to get a Storm or a Bold, but Sprint has neither, and at the moment I’m sticking with that service. The 8330 is old stuff [...]

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Barry on November 7th, 2008

The best part of a laptop is that you can easily move it around to use wherever you like, without worrying about an electrical outlet power source. The worst part of a laptop is that the bloody batteries stop taking a charge after a year or less of constant charging / recharging.  Replacement batteries from [...]

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Barry on November 1st, 2008

Well…Vista isn’t exactly dead yet, but the first bits of  the next in the series — not Vista Plus or some such, but Windows 7 — has been released to the developers.  Slimmer, faster, presumably what Vista should have been.
 
I’ve never recommended an upgrade to Vista, and have suggested that folks buying a new PC, [...]

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