James Chamberlin

I’ve had a love-hate relationship with computer mice for as long as I remember. My favorite mice were of the trackball variety. I loved those. I liked not having to move the mouse all over the desk, just moving my fingers to control the mouse pointer. After a few of them died after just a […]

Despite Intel’s botched Sandy Bridge release, I’m still excited about them. I know the SATA problems are well documented at this point, but there’s no question that those new CPUs are great. Intel’s public reputation will be restored to a degree after those faulty motherboards are recalled in full and new ones are released. It […]

A few weeks ago, I mentioned the fact that Intel had me drooling over the new Sandy Bridge chipset. The CPUs are incredibly fast and are priced fairly well. Today, the Sandy Bridge came crashing down due to a huge design flaw. It’s related to the SATA controller, making anything connected to it vulnerable to […]

If you talk to a hundred computer users what they use for antivirus, you’ll get dozens of answers. I’ve tried my share of A/V programs over the many years and have been very happy with the free version of Avast for the last three years. It works. It doesn’t bog down my system. Did I […]

My two computers are showing their age. While they both run reliably, neither one of them is considered fast by today’s standards. Intel’s new Sandy Bridge technology frankly has me drooling, even more after seeing Anandtech’s video encoding tests. The Intel i7 2600k was able to outpace almost all other CPUs except for the i7 […]

I’ve been using TeamViewer to connect to a friend’s PC and all of a sudden it doesn’t work. We’ve both updated our versions to the latest and still I can’t connect to him. He can connect to me. It’s inconvenient that I have to wait for him to be online at the same time because […]

Thanks to my Tivo, I haven’t had to watch nearly as many commercials as I used to. The Super Bowl is another story however. While there were only a couple of decent ones, there’s one that I can’t get out of my head lately. It’s from Old Spice and I love it.

I haven’t used a piece of Apple hardware since I was a child and the local school had Apple IIe computers. I’ve yet to shell out cash for an iPod, iPhone, or any of their computers. I was holding out some hope that Apple’s tablet would be something that would make me run out to […]

In the last few weeks I’ve briefly read over several articles about a possible solar power station being built in space by the Japanese. The proposed 1-gigawatt power station will cost an estimated $21 billion, a huge expense for such little power. The station would only be able to power ~300,000 Japanese homes. The last […]

I’m not sure if I’m the only one, but I have found myself on Twitter much more than I expected to be over the last few months. I haven’t abandoned my blog, but it does feel like something I could do without. The biggest issue with Twitter is that you’re limited to under 200 characters. […]