I just realized tonight why my internet usage billing on the iPhone seems excessive compared to, say, when I was using my Nokia XpressMusic 5800. I’ve seen a lot of complaints on the internet about such incidents and contrary to what many are suspecting it is most probably NOT the telecom carrier’s sneakiness/dishonesty, nor is [...]
One of the greatest frustrations I have had with using the Apple Wireless Bluetooth Keyboard with my Modbook is that it sometimes gives out inexplicable error messages when trying to pair with Windows 7 and refuses to go forward with the process. I was able to find an article on the net (forgot the link, [...]
The iPhone is a very nice device, but one of its many flaws are that it sucks up battery juice like there’s no tomorrow (which there literally won’t be if you don’t charge it every chance you get). For someone who has lots of music videos and who may just want to listen to the [...]
FPGAs or Field Programmable Gate Arrays are essentially programmable/reconfigurable hardware. A particular CPU architecture can be thought of as hardcoded whereas in contrast, FPGAs let you change the processor “architecture” any time you like. The trade-off is performance versus flexibility. While their gate configurations are reprogrammable, the different process utilized to make FPGAs mean that [...]