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Acer Aspire One ZG5 has 8GB SSD. This SSD has poor performance as indicated on Wiki. Intel Z-P230, model SSDPAMM0008G1. This SSD has been criticized for its slow read and write speed. Intel lists the drive’s maximum speeds as 38...
I have DNS-323 in 2009. It is good NAS, which is running on 24/7 basis. DNS-323 has it official BT client, or addon. But I would like to have a more powerful BT client. First of all, FFP is requried....
The old firmware on this Kobo Mini is 2.1.5. Today I did an update, it is 2.4.0 now. Here is the guide to make update. 1) Make sure you’re within range of an available Wi Fi network, and that your...
Amazon released the new firmware of Kindle Touch. Firmware 5.3.2. Update procedures are clearly described at official site here. Three steps: Download the firmware 5.3.2. It is 50MB. File name is Update_kindle_5.3.2.bin Copy the file to Kindle root. Press Menu...
I have an old usb cable for my iPod shuffle. It is broken and I fixed it. At the same time, I ordered one New USB Data Cable Sync charger 60cm for IPod Shuffle 2nd Gen USA, at eBay. It...
To make Raspberry Pi work, I need some accessories. When I ordered Raspberry Pi from the official site, it is a PCB only. I need the following items. USB keyboard and mouse. Prepared SD card. At least class4, 4GB. HDMI...
I just start to use Telus TV service since 2012. I have a HD Box without PVR function. The remote control looks like the one below. For reference only, I put the User Guide here. If, you have same module,...
I ordered one case for my Raspberry Pi board. It is only about $8. It is a set of pre-cut acrylic board. I assembled it with easy click-on. No glue needed. Here is the front pic.
I bought one Fitbit Ultra to my wife. She is using it all day and night. I feel it is great tool. So I ordered one more Fitbit gardget for myself. It is called Fitbit Zip. It is a wireless...
My 2012 Christmas gift is a weather station, Acurite Wireless Weather Forecaster. Weather the day with confidence with your own weather and weather prediction information – pinpoint accuracy right from your own backyard. The AcuRite Digital Weather Center uses patent-pending...
In this new year season, I bought a set of desktop hardware and built a new PC. Here is the hard drive. Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB, SATA 3 (6GB/s), 7200RPM, 64MB Cache, 3.5in. It is designed for desktop, called...
I have an ipod shuffle. Most of time, I play Xiangsheng on it. It uses an usb cable to charge the battery and also connect with itunes to tranfer data. The cable I have is not that sable. I have...
It is most popular memory card for digital cameras. SD card Based on the capacity, there is different type of SD card. Capacity SDSC (SD): 1 MB to 2 GB, some 4 GB available. SDHC: 4 GB to 32 GB SDXC: ≥32 GB to 2 TB I...
Say, there is a ASUS Laptop, which is shipped with Windows Vista. Now the user want to change it to Windows 7. Here is the tips to upgrade it. 1) Backup up the user files to a safe place. Maybe...
Sometimes I need to flash the mother-board BIOS from DOS. Actually now I have not tools can boot the PC to DOS. There is no floppy disk driver on it. I can only make a DOS bootable USB disk to...