So how much does my Nook weigh?

I knew it! Every time I put content on my Nook Color it becomes heavier and heavier. I already have 4GB of data on it and the extra .000000000000000001 grams is killing me. (It weighs 15.8 ounces, before adding all that heavy content.) And this is precisely why I have an eReader. The Nook Color allows me to [...]

Pandigital Novel

I must say I didn’t have the highest hopes for the Pandigital Novel eReader at $149, but I at least expected it to function for reading. The out of the box experience was fine. Everything worked and the device’s battery was charged to 97%. It detected my wireless and authenticated effortlessly, no issues with connecting with [...]

Eee PC 2.00 GB (767 MB usable)

Today there was a curious case where someone’s Windows 7 Eee PC had 2 GB of RAM, which the operating system was aware of, but only listed as 767 MB available for use. It turns out that if the Boot Booster is enabled in the BIOS, it limits the amount of usable RAM. To fix this, [...]

What’s in my backpack?

Every time I’m heading out the door, I throw a heavy backpack over my shoulder and drop it into my car with a thud. What’s in this bag I lug around to each client? Of course there’s my HP tc4400 Tablet PC and battery charger, but there’s a whole lot more, in no particular order: [...]

HP tc4400 and Windows 7 Boot Failure

I’ve been using an HP tc4400 Tablet PC with Windows Vista for quite some time now and thought it was about time I started using Windows 7 for work and not just home. Don’t get me wrong, I do like Vista (I think I may be only one of eight people), but as an IT [...]

Network Printer Offline

Yesterday I was at a client site where everyone prints directly to the printers, rather than sharing via a print server. One of the PCs kept showing a printer as offline, even though everyone else was printing to it. From the PC you could ping the printer and even browse to the builtin web server [...]

Omnibook BIOS Reset

A good friend gave me an old HP Omnibook of his, which was used by a former employee and he hadn’t used it in well over a year. It turned out to have a BIOS password, which he didn’t know. I thought I was in for some laptop disassembly to remove the CMOS battery or change a jumper; perhaps even worse, [...]

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