TECHdodo

While going through the price matching model number mismatch at Best Buy today, I was also planning to buy a DVD player. It was $69.99 at Best Buy. I went to Walmart after and found it was only $64 at Walmart. I didn’t buy it and checked on line and found it was only $62 [...]

Price Matching I was in Best Buy this weekend and they had a small USB flash drive that I thought would be perfect for putting my Puppy Linux installation on. 4gb and about one third the physical size of the 1gb I currently use. I figure it is small enough that I can really keep [...]

DRM, Digital Rights Management. Big companies always tout DRM. You can sell your movies on our format, because it will be protected. You can sell your music in our format, because it will be protected. You can sell your books in our format, because they will be protected. Then, inevitably, the DRM is cracked. It [...]

A couple weeks ago, I picked up an HP C4680 printer. I like the printer. It prints well, and I haven’t had any problems with the ink like I did with my old Epson. Today, however, I tried to print to it and it wouldn’t print. It kept telling me to print a diagnostics page [...]

Windows can be such a pain. Really it can. A month or so ago I had my hard drive fail on an old desktop PC. I restored the original OEM disks onto a new hard drive. It was old enough that it actually came with discs, imagine that. Well, I don’t use that system too [...]