Every year Google releases a list of their most searched terms. Below is the 2013 list for Canada: 1. Outlook 2. iPhone 5S 3. BlackBerry 10 4. GTA 5 5. Nexus 5 6. PS4 7. Songza 8. Xbox One 9. Samsung Galaxy S4 10. Vine
Below is are simplified explanations of NSA ‘products’ used to spy: TYPHON HX: Fake cell towers – You think your cell has connected to a typical provider (Bell, AT&T, Orange…) but for just $175,000 each the NSA has developed fake mobile cell towers. …this type of hacking was spotted in action […]
Dell, HP, Toshiba, Samsung (‘da big boys) are no longer shipping PC’s and laptops with Microsoft Windows 8 stickers. Smaller companies are still using Win8 Certificate of Authenticity (COA) stickers which contain the CD Key you need for resinstalls. Sooooo the question is, how are Dell, HP, Samsung… doing this, […]
This is our brief hands on review of the Blackberry Q10. The end point is that, in my opinion, the Blackberry Q10 is a very well manufactured device with a modern interface but it just does not keep up with the Samsung competition. The big exception would be if you want a physical […]
If your AD account becomes locked over and over again (especially after a recent password change), it is likely something on your PC/Server has cached the old password and is causing the account to lock. There are several ready places to look for this… and I will get to those […]
Since December 1998, when on impulse I bought the original iMac from CompUSA, I’ve used Apple gear. No longer. Late yesterday, I replaced the last fruit-logo with another, fulfilling my pledge nearly a month ago to boycott Apple… … Rotten to the Core Sadly, in 2012, Apple is the company […]
There was always talk about the fact that hard disk drives are so cheap, that the profitability of the manufacturers is getting low enough to limit the R&D investments they would otherwise make… The Thailand flood came and went and we were left with the hard drive “crisis”. While the […]
Companies are notorious for providing questionable MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure). Disks are no exception to this rule. We found that www.behardware.com had acquired actual return rates and so we took their number and compiled the following list. The numbers are …taken from a large French etailer, whose database we have […]
You likely know, unless you believe Apple advertising, that Samsung alone has ball crushing sales numbers. Samsung’s Android business is larger than Apples iPhone… and that is just Samsung; there are dozens of notable Android manufacturers so it should come as no surprise how much Android dominates. The iPhone 4 […]
Here is my ‘Desktop Color Printer Evaluation’ in Excel format. You can use it as a template for evaluating other printer products. It covers obvious items like printer cost and pages per minutes as well as less obvious but very important criteria like second paper tray cost and memory. In the […]
Do you need the default username or password for a router, firewall, switch… Below is a list of default passwords I found and cleaned up. If you know of any other default passwords, please add a comment containing that information at the end of this post. Vendor Model Version Access […]
Note that these numbers are the share of operating systems in use… not selling today. In other words, Apple looks like the big winner here when in fact Samsun and HTC are outselling Apple most months, thereby eating into Apples iOS overall market share. Android 42% (HTC, Samsung, Motorola) Apple […]
OK. OK… Sooo, here is my logic for even trying a Windows Mobile 7 phone: Windows CE 6.5 was great in 2004 but it just didn’t keep pace and by 2006 I had given up and moved my clients to Blackberry. That was a good decision. Apple is incapable of producing […]
“…On October 6, I made a dramatic, personal computing switch. After more than two months using the Samsung Series 5 Chromebook running Google’s Chrome OS, I didn’t go back to the Mac but to Windows 7. Mac OS X 10.7 — aka “Lion” — is major, but not only, reason. […]
“…According to ComScore, for the three months ending June 30, Android smartphone OS market share rose more than 5 percent — to 40.1 percent from 34.7 percent. By comparison, Apple share rose 1.1 percent to 26.6 percent. Research in Motion and Microsoft platforms lost share — 3.7 percent and 1.7 […]
NORTELS DEAD: What are you going to do now? It used to be so easy to choose a quality phone system that would last 15+ years with almost no maintenace, but then Nortel went Bankrupt. In 2006 Nortel (Bell Canada) had 82% of the North American corporate phone market, was huge […]