Archive for the 'Hardware' Category



I know that I’m a nutcase, you don’t need to tell me. Didn’t I once say that the main reason why I bought the Xbox 360 was not to have to upgrade my PC/Mac again only to play computer games? Well, here I am, the living contradiction: My new nVidia 8800 GT graphics card arrived [...]

Maybe I was having a little bit too much on my hands in the last days, but I’ve re-installed Vista Ultimate Edition 32 Bit SP1 on a 160 GB disk on my Mac Pro (which is what people nowadays call ‘running Windows in BootCamp’).
My Mac Pro has 8 GB RAM, and that’s too much for [...]

I’m writing this because I once again stumbled over some blogs of technophile folks who pride themselves with having successfully jailbroken Apple’s iPhone.
People buy iPhones because they somehow fell in love with that little device that could be out of a Star Trek movie. Then they quickly discover that the iPhone is just a pretty [...]