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Great site for looking at tech product reviews

Posted on 27. Nov, 2009 by .

The holy grail in Technology is finding the right product, at the right price, at the right time in a product’s life-cycle.  Retrevo tries to coordinate these different factors, and give customers a decent smattering of review site related to that product. There are a few very cool parts of the site.  I really appreciate [...]

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Blackberry Storm 2 trying to get noticed

Posted on 29. Oct, 2009 by .

Hey, over here! The release of the Blackberry Storm 2 on the Verizon’s network, yesterday, seemed to be the least publicized event in quite some time.  This product that has the ability to hold or expand RIM’s market share (currently at approx. 40%),  but with the marketing and pizazz of a Kleenex commercial, fails to [...]

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Juniper EX 8208 unbox and install

Juniper EX 8208 unbox and install

Posted on 20. Oct, 2009 by .

It’s here!  Like Christmas morning, all over again… but for really expensive toys that I don’t own but just work on.  Oh, it’s the same thing. Heavy out of the box b/c it has the power units installed out of the box.  Really slick looking design.  Quite a design difference and departure from the Nortel [...]

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The online storage fun continues

Posted on 03. Sep, 2009 by .

There are a lot of online storage companies out there, and I have tried about 4 of them (iDrive, Mozy, JungleDisk (S3), and Carbonite on Windows).  I have a large need for storage; my iTunes (600GB) and iPhoto (250GB) libraries are getting unruly.  Unfortunately, I haven’t broken down to get a Drobo yet… damn, do [...]

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Blackberry Storm 2 9550… disappointing

Posted on 17. Aug, 2009 by .

A BB Storm 2 review has been posted on YouTube.  I am not trying to hate on BlackBerry, but they make it so damn easy.  I don’t get what the Software OS group at RIM have been up to the last 4 years.  Seriously, just look at the Palm Pre and realize, your UI looks [...]

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Update: 2 weeks with my 13″ MBP

Posted on 11. Aug, 2009 by .

So, today is the 2 week anniversary of my latest Apple lust, the 13″ MBP. Specs: 2.26GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 3MB on-chip shared L2 cache 1066MHz frontside bus 4GB (two 2GB SO-DIMMs) of 1066MHz DDR3 memory 500GB 5400-rpm hard drive Here are my initial impressions of the device.  Great!  Duh. Upgrading: Well, [...]

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