Last weekend, I bought an Asus Pro36s notebook, also known as a U36JC. It features a quad core 64 bit Intel Core i5-2410M CPU at 2.3 Ghz, 4 GB DDR3 RAM, a 500 GB hard drive and an Nvidia GeForce GT 520M video adaptor. It weighs less than 1.5 kilos (that’s including batteries) and is [...]
I got a new phone. It’s my first real smart phone, it has Android and two CPU cores. I like it. It’s an LG Optimus 2x and it looks like this: I like it for having a Linux kernel, a big screen, a 3.5 mm earphone jack, convenient volume buttons, a slick design and because [...]
I was offended by the inaptness of an employee of the Dutch Tomtom support desk today. Not only couldn’t he help me, he didn’t even try, nor did he seem to know what questions to ask me. There is only one reason I have an installation of Windows XP. I own a Tomtom One Europe, [...]
I know it’s customary to announce server outages beforehand, but the last few days’ unreliability of this site were quite unexpected for me. I have replaced the offending hardware. Things should be better from now onwards.
UPDATE (june 19th, 2009) It appears I’ve been overlooking a setting in the phone’s camera application. The Settings menu has an option that lets me specify where to save pictures. When I set it to internal memory, the message mentioned in [2] doesn’t appear any longer. Since a few months now I am the owner [...]
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