During this week beginning August 13, 2012 I’ve seen four Seagate 2.5″ hard drives fail. All of the drives except one are the 500gb size. The other one was a Seagate ST9640320AS 640gb 2.5″ . This is the first time I’ve ever come across a certain brand and size range fail in multiples all in a week. I will try to get the model numbers for you, but I believe they were all the Momentus model. Maybe it was a coincidence...

Well the Ipad is for real. I bought a Gen 1 off Ebay and it is pretty sweet. I shunned the Ipad for quite a while before giving in and owning one. It is very user friendly and a polished product, not that Apple would let an Ipad be on the shelf if it wasn’t perfected. The app selection is never ending for the Ipad. I think there are 50,000 and growing at this time. I will write a post talking about the free apps someday, but today I...

A free program that I have used for many years is Irfanview. It is a powerful photo editor written by a guy named Irfan living in Vienna, Austria. It has been around since 1996 with many upgrades over the years. Once you learn how to use Irfanview you will really come to appreciate it. It is very small in download size weighing in at 1.5mb. It shouldn’t be compared to Photoshop but is still very useful for the average photo manipulation...