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Important new Article - Securing your browser!

An exhaustive explanation of what your browser risks are and how to prevent them is now up and posted.  Required reading for all.  Check article on left under What's New.

Gigapixel Pictures are so darn cool

About a year ago, I put a link on here about an 80 Gigapixel of London that I thought was so cool.  Seems there are more pictures like that out there.  For the uninitiated, A gigapxel image is a digital image bitmap composed of one billion (10⁹) pixels (picture elements), 1000 times the information captured by a 1 megapixel digital camera. Current technology for creating such very high-resolution images usually involves either making mosaics of a large number of high-resolution digital photographs or using a film negative as large as 12" × 9" (30 cm × 23 cm) up to 18" × 9" (46 cm × 23 cm), which is then scanned with a high-end large-format film scanner with at least 3000 dpi resolution.

Now that the clinical explanation has been reviewed, check out Gigapan and PCMag for some eye-dropping pictures.

My first All-In-One Computer Repair

This day has been coming, a call from somebody with a new All-In-One Windows Computer.  I've been waiting and dreading this day.  Only because I knew whatever Windows based computer would not be as elegant as an iMac, probably just as complicated  to fix and just a general pain.  I must admit though after dealing with an HP model, I am impressed with the built-in diagnostics tools that it has.  It almost fixes itself.  This is good as the hardware design makes it almost impossible to open.  Who's next?

New Security Tips and Information Section!!

A bit clinical, but the new Security Tips & Information section is up, with new content being added.  In short, get the barebones explanation and tips to secure your computer and/or avoid the common pitfalls that many encounter.

In case you wanted to run multiple monitors from your laptop, you can!

Desktop machines typically come with two or more display outputs right out of the box, but as the world becomes increasingly mobile, finding a way to plug in your extra display’s when using a notebook has always been a challenge. Sometime even if you’re fortunate enough to have a laptop with more than one output, they don’t all work at once. Thankfully Diamond has been hard at work on the problem, and late last week they let us know that their new lineup of USB powered display adapters are ready to ship.

Diamond claims the BVU165 and BVU165LT consume 80% less power than internal graphics, support both Mac and PC’s, and allow you to drive up to six external displays at resolutions of up to 2048x1152. These dongles are fairly compact, powered by any USB 2.0 port, and come ready to connect to any DVI, HDMI, or VGA capable display. We haven’t had a chance to bring these in for testing just yet, but if you’re on the hunt for a notebook multi-monitor solution the price seems pretty reasonable.

BVU165 – DVI, HDMI, VGA: $49.99 Each

BVU165LT – DVI Only: $39.99