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Thanks DD & Howell. Wish we had something like the stuff Dave's talking about. I'm told by friends that the newer Samsung Galaxy type phones (mid to high-end) have tethering capabilities and act like wi-fi hotspots. I have a clunky Nokia E71 with a querty keyboard that doesn't do this kind of...

Not sure I understand the question. I'm talking about one of these to use with a laptop (click on Devices on the Magenta bar in the middle of the screen). We're still considerably behind in overall connectivity though we have probably 2.5x the number of mobile users as the US population.

Thanks all, onward & upward! This will really help 'cause I'm moving around May 23 and will be without 'net and my workhorse desktop pc. I will be buying a 3G USB internet dongle for the laptop to keep connected. Not to reach SF (there'll be no time for that!) but to pay bills and such. Not...

So should I not worry and just use it? I haven't tried Samsung's Magician sw yet, but should I do what Lunar said - periodically run trim manually?

I don't know, Lunar, this is my first SSD. If you guys tell me it's not problem, I'm good.

Thanks Chewy; didn't realize BIOS updates were available for such an old machine! But sorry, no cigar. Even after the BIOS update, there is no mention/option in the BIOS for disk controllers: i.e. "Integrated Peripherals" and OnChip PATA/SATA Devices. I tried enabling AHCI by doing this...

Now the fun begins. Proc is an AMD Turion 64 X2; chipset is AMD M690T with Radeon X1270 Graphics. Is TRIM enabled or not? Returns 0. But there's stuff on the 'net that says this query lies, returns 0 even without an SSD. I had to manually disable scheduled defrag (in configre disks to...

Nutjobs was a reference to Crucial because they didn't wasn't my business. The Samsung 840 250GB arrived this evening, and Win 7 is being installed on it as we speak... Thanks all.

All, to the august members of this forum, this may be elementary. But John Doe on the street does not realize the potential exposure. This was more intended to help inform family and friends in a way they can relate to.

Thanks all. RAM has already been ordered from Crucial. Nutjobs won't take a credit card from my location, despite all that Verified by Visa crap (Monoprice won't either). Had my bro in the US order it for me. He'll be here early June and I'll lay my paws on them then. Will order the Sammy 840...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2vARzvWxwY Summary: If in the phone camera settings you have GPS tagged to camera, I believe pics you take with the phone and post online will reveal the GPS coordinates where that pic was taken. De-risk by untagging camera from GPS.

Sample local prices from the Amazon copycat here (in alpha/price order): Corsair Force Series GS 180 GB (CSSD-F180GBGS-BK); $241 Corsair Force Series GS 240 GB (CSSD-F240GBGS-BK); $270 Corsair Neutron GTX Series 240 GB (CSSD-N240GBGTXB-BK); $311 Intel 520 240 GB (SSDSC2CW240A3K5); $436 19%...

Awesome find; thanks DD! The title says Latitude, but the guy in the video says it's an Inspiron. The Latitude service manual says hinge covers have to be removed; so do some other sources. I'll get the RAM from Crucial. Anybody got suggestions on the SSD ~ 250GB? Seeing comments out there...

Thanks all. It's harder than it looks. There are two dimm slots; one under the keyboard, one under the bottom. The bottom one takes seconds to access. For the first one, one has to remove the hinge cover (seems a delicate process) and then remove the keyboard to access. I've never done this...

Thanks; I'll probably go ahead with this.

Thanks guys. There goes another brilliant (!) idea of mine.

Lucky me. My company (actually ex; I've been out of there since March 2012 in realistic terms) has decided to let me keep the laptop since it's fully depreciated. It's a Dell Latitude D531 with a shipping date of 7/30/2007. Has 2GB installed, can be upped to 4. 120GB HDD. Some AMD cpu...

Is there any tablet out there that'll take a USB internet dongle? Wi-Fi ain't that widespread here, and it'll be useful when traveling to have internet access via a tablet. The real answer to the question I guess is if the dongle has sw to run on Android.

Huge learning curve, no time. Can't install anything on borrowed m/c. Just got done downloading Ubuntu and the necessary tools. Now to see if this will work. It would also be immensely useful to open, edit, save Excel & Word files. Hoping this will do the trick. Icing on the cake will be if I...

Thanks DD & Coug, I'll check them out.

Mouse? You're a bloody genius!

Hi folks, I don't have a laptop (my own anyway, and since I'm no longer with my previous employer, have to return that unless they allow me to keep it for a couple of months or buy it at the depreciated price from them {it's 5.5 year old}). I will be travelling and need access to a secure...

Keep 'em coming! Pulease!

Awesome! Thanks Handy!

Thanks Merc. How about some pics of your kitties? Handy is yet to post the pics he promised me as well.

Oh, and watch out for allergies. Our little one was supplemented with formula, and wasn't gaining weight. The stupid pediatrician accused us of neglecting and starving her and threatened to turn us in for abuse. We got a second opinion, and the diagnosis was milk allergy, use soy formula...

DD, congrats to you and the missus, and blessings & best wishes to the little one! In the older days, extended family (grandma, aunts) pitched in to help care for the newborn and the tired new mom. Seems that happens rarely nowadays. When our girl was born, my m-i-l was on hand to help. Though...

No worries, mate, I still don't have one! :)

This has to be the most awesome kitty ever. My daughter has it as her desktop wallpaper, and I can't take my eyes off it! Need to see it big size.

I've bought things (HDD) from eWiz ~ 2005 without problems. But why they would need multiple business names is suspicious. Reseller Ratings will club business names as soon as they find out.

Coug, the # of reviews is also very important. 9.6/10 from, say, 1200 reviews is fabulous, but out of 5 reviews sounds bogus.

Pasting it into Irfanview. Also tried pasting into Word, slightly better. Maybe I should install FastStone and see what happens.

I used to use MWSnap on Win XP. It was really good; the screenshots were of very high quality. Unfortunately it hasn't been updated since 2002. Tried the PrintScrn from the keyboard; output sucked (very grainy). Tried the Snipping Tool inside Windows - sucked again. Don't know if it's the...

I aks because a long time ago (8-10 years) Faststone had a bad name; spyware or some such thing. I don't remember the details now.

Do you get BSODs if the pagefile is on a magnetic HDD?

Thanks time.

I don't think a used device will go down well. And the learning curve for her and me (to support) on a generic device for music (android phone) may be too burdensome at this point. The Android phones that have really good music circuitry are in the Ipod range or higher price-wise anyway. The...

Is this better than Irfanview, time?

Availability of dedicated players here is limited. Not sure an older Android phone will do the job. Not a single phone is available here discounted by the carrier in exchange for a contract. You always buy the phones in stores at full price. So limited options there. Thanks for all the tips.

Radon is bad stuff. Don't tarry.

Amz has only one model of the iriver, so I guess they're not doing well. In my searches, only there seems only one worthy competitor to the Ipod, and that's the Cowon Z2. But over here, it's about 88% the cost of a current gen Ipod. Don;t know if it's worth the hassle of switching platforms...

Thanks for the tips guys - I'll check them out. I'm also planning to check out Cowan. And we didn't buy the Ipod - it was a gift made to us in 2006. No shame, no worries. And if you use one long enough, it will kill itself, no need for a hammer!

I checked; apparently her phone sucks on audio (it was a cheapie Samsung the kids were all crazy about some time ago; it's not Android). She doesn't use her phone much, for a teenager, and prefers a dedicated player. It's either a new phone with good audio or the Ipod at this point, both...

Thanks Handruin. She already has a 3 year old (purchased new) touch Samsung phone, but I guess its storage & audio capabilities are not good. Getting her a phone that also has good audio is a possibility; I had never thought of that! SD, using iTunes is not mandatory! I only mentioned iTunes...

I will do that in any case, but the wife wants the old one. Kid is fixated on a new one. Prices here are 50% higher than the US, but my understanding is that there is no warranty here if I have someone bring it from the US. I'm looking for alternatives to the Ipod, if any. If there isn't, will...

I'm more interested in a pic of Merc with blue hair!

Need help from the experts here. Daughter has an Apple iPod 5G 2005 Classic (with Video) 60 GB (MA002LL/A*) hdd based player. Its battery is dying and there are some other reliability issues. She wants a newer flash-based Ipod. Checked out the current 5th Gen 4" Retina, and it seems to have...

What is appalling is: a) SCE sold those homes to the unsuspecting public. SCE acquired them originally precisely to avoid the problem described in the article. The CEO / bean counters probably did this to meet their earning targets. b) Being a power utility, they don;t seem to know how to fix...

Scary stuff: How stray voltage almost ruined a family

Yup. My Epson Perfection 2480 Photo does not have W7 drivers/sw. It works beautifully for my needs, and I didn't want to buy a new one or try Vuescan. I created an XP VM, installed the driver & sw in it and use the scanner inside the VM. Works like a charm. It's USB, but I'm sure the SCSI will...