Electric Farm Technology For Rural LivingAbout Maasens White - My Favorite House Plant 2011.11.10 - .30 - Recently Completed a batch of chess boards.  Update: 2011.11.27 - Remote Control - HDTV Update: 2011.12.03 - Portable Computing If your only going to have one computer this is it. Use it on the road or when you get home plug in the HDMI cable and your HDTV becomes the monitor! Plug in a mouse and keyboard and you'l never know your on a laptop. Computer chatter has it that these machines will drop in price 20% this year and again in 2013 because of the competative market they feel the $500 mark (now $800) is the sweet spot for marketing.  Ultra Books are the newest portable technology - better than a netbook - absolutely! More powerfull CPU's - multi core processors 13" 1366 x 768 Display - This is 720p - A standard for HDTV display Larger hard drives 640gb + Usually 4gb Ram HDMI, USB, USB3, I/O's 64bit OS Asus - Bad Trackpad Toshiba Mirroring a laptop: If you are the sort of person who keeps all your eggs in one basket C:\Windows on a laptop. I have a suggestion that I use frequently. Get a USB storage device larger than the hard drive in the lap top. Purchase "Casper" one machine license 39.95. Startup windows and plug in the USB drive and run "Casper" / Copy Drive. Do this each time a significant amount of work has been done on the machine. This creates a backup of everything on your laptop OS, .dll's, drivers, codecs, settings, pictures, music, data, in otherwords a mirror of everything. In fact you can change the boot order in your bios and boot off the USB as it will see the copy just like the original. If switching out a HD in the laptop you can use "Casper" to copy the USB back to the new drive. (at which time you can adjust partition sizes..)  I am constantly reminding people that data on the C: drive is very vulnerable and I NEVER store data there, only OS and Programs. Even though I could rebuild the contents of my C: drive from disk if necessary installing windows and the programs but this takes several days work. For this reason I backup my C: drive frequently. In case of a problem I change my boot order to a OS backup drive and boot off the backup while resolving the problem with the other drive and then copy the backup to what will be C: Win7 x64 compatible source code by George Steeves New multimedia program package for Win7X64: Win7X64 Development Lupines In Bloom 2010.06.05 Youtube HD resolution video posted a how to for Lupines below: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zHwIzqH7no&feature=player_embedded Video Editing Tool 2011.04.12 Still using this video editing tool that I am very happy with. "Vegas" video editor |