All Blog Posts Tagged 'old' (39)

How Electronics Should Be Made

Hey All, Let's face it, eletronics are not made they way they used to be made. Be it audio gear, computers, peripherals, you name it. The build quality and durability of those old components and gear is second to none. Here is a good example. I just got a few weeks ago a Pioneer SX 780 Stereo reciever from 1979. I cannot get over how well this thing is made compared to things today. The faceplate, tuner and all the knobs are REAL machined brushed aluminium. The toggle switches (which I have rar… Continue

Added by DellMan94 on December 20, 2009 at 5:35pm — No Comments

Four Dudes On tech - Show#29 - My Binky Is All 'Beered' Up!

Four Dudes On Tech is a tech chat podcast started December of 08'. We hope you stop by our site and check out the show. You can subscribe to our feed @ http://feeds.feedburner.com/fourdudesontech/umkY Four Dudes On Tech Podcast Show#29 - My Binky Is All 'Beered' Up! December 16th, 2009 We can be reached: Http://www.fourdudesontech.com Fourdudesontech@gmail.com Complete show notes and l… Continue

Added by Cowhelmet on December 17, 2009 at 10:07am — No Comments

Follow Friday on The Way Out?

For a while now Follow Friday has been a good way for people to recommend great people to follow on twitter. As a geek I use twitter for sharing information, and interest. One of the people I follow made the statement to me that "more followers isn't better, better followers is more". What I mean by better followers is that none of this spam crap, not someone who spews out senseless nonsense. I’ve used Follow Friday since June I believe, but with the introduction of Twitter Lists Follow F… Continue

Added by Mike Copeland on November 5, 2009 at 2:00pm — 2 Comments

Feckless in Seattle: Old Media Meets Click Fraud

As some of you may know, I was recently in a contest sponsored by local Seattle-based radio station, 107.7 The End. The concept was to become the city's greatest "End"fluencer by competing in a series of challenges to prove influence. The prize: $5,000 awarded by station sponsor Miller Lite. The contest consisted of three Challenges:

Blog -- Update a station-run blog page and compete for pageviews.
Show Us Your Log

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Added by Kristin Marshall on October 29, 2009 at 10:48pm — No Comments

Ceaning Out Your Mac With Onyx

As you might know your mac will slow down over time. It does not matter what you do with your mac as long as it is on it will slow down over time. Now don't get scared because it is nothing drastic like windows when you would have to reinstall the OS and you won't have to reinstall OS X either. The thing that happens is overtime files left over from unused programs and caches that never got cleaned pile up on your hard drive. This not only takes up valuable space, but it slows down your overall… Continue

Added by Computerwhiz1 on October 11, 2009 at 7:09pm — No Comments

Is my profile pic to nerdy?

Well I'm curious is it to geeky/nerdy? Oh by the way, it's suppose to look goofy. Continue

Added by Daniel on September 6, 2009 at 4:32pm — 2 Comments

I'm ripping my parents old LP records!

I'm ripping my parents old LP records, there is some very good music and you would not believe the quality of these records, and the turn table is great! You may, or may not have ever seen any old LP records if not for info on then: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LP_album Continue

Added by Daniel on August 19, 2009 at 11:23am — 1 Comment

Old Computer - New Tricks

I have a old Computer in my loft that runs Windows 98 and im going to strip it down and completely mod it so its nice and shiny... and has more RAM and a better OS. Continue

Added by Shaun Pattison on August 1, 2009 at 12:27pm — 2 Comments

Do you like playing with old technology?

Nowadays, it seems like new technology comes out to replace the old stuff every week. You may buy a custom built computer, but by the time you finally get it, there's something new and better! Naturally, this leaves a lot of old technology. Most people toss away, or (hopefully) recycle old computers, cell phones, and other gadgets. Although I love to play with the newest technology, as every geek does, I also occasionally like to dust off an old computer tower, or even play around with an old ce… Continue

Added by Patrick Korkuch on June 30, 2009 at 9:51pm — 17 Comments

Use old internal hard drives for free storage

Use old internal hard drives for free storage Have an unused internal hard drive sitting around? Maybe you upgraded a laptop hard drive to a bigger capacity, or you pulled an internal drive from a desktop PC before selling it. You can put either kind back to work as extra, free storage. Inside a desktop PC: 2.5-inch laptop and 3.5-inch PC SATA drives use identical connections, which means that a recent laptop hard drive can work instantly. If you want to install a laptop drive in a PC, remembe… Continue

Added by dave on June 18, 2009 at 10:00am — 1 Comment

Retro Pocket Game Emulator

If the previously featured 4GB GAME-800 PMP with inbuilt NES/Famicom, Game Boy & Game Boy Color emulator portable gaming device doesn’t quite do it for you but you’re looking for a portable gaming device offering a little classic gaming action you may find this Retro Pocket Game Emulator - which offers NES, SNES, GBA, Sega Genesis & Neo Geo Rom compatibility - of interest. Like t… Continue

Added by Aaron Vail on June 5, 2009 at 11:51am — No Comments

I am now have linux!

Okay. My dad gave me his 10 year old thinkpad. It was running Windows 98 and I have always wanted to try linux. I put vector linux lite on it and honestly, I do not like it. I would have liked Xubuntu but I had trouble installing it. Here it is.

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Added by Pj221 on April 18, 2009 at 5:00pm — 4 Comments

Is this a good computer for first build?

ok so i am going to build a computer soon and i was wondering if this would be any good for a little gaming. Intel DP43TF - http://www.ebuyer.com/product/150952 X-Galaxy Bubble Light Gaming Case - http://www.xcase.co.uk/p/290659/x-galaxy-bubble-light-gaming-case-with-400-watt-psu---4-in-1-.html Intel E8500 Core 2 Duo Proccessor - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Intel-E8500-Core-Duo-Proccessor/dp/B00116SLZS/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1236120396&sr=1-5 Kingston Technology 2GB *2… Continue

Added by James Ricketts on April 13, 2009 at 3:30am — 3 Comments

What can I do with an old Mac?

I have an old iMac G3, one of the dark green models, and I was wondering what I could do with it. It is running 10.3.9, has a 20GB hard drive, and 512MB of Ram. As far as I know, the Ram cannot be upgraded any further, but I am willing to update the Hard Drive if necessary. It does not have an airport card because Apple doesn't make it anymore, and tekserve didn't have any either. If you know where I can get an Airport card, please let me know, but my main concern is what I can do with this comp… Continue

Added by Tim on April 12, 2009 at 6:00pm — 6 Comments

The Good Old Days - Interesting Medications from the past

Treatments from our great granny's time, very effective medication! Bayer 's Heroin

A bottle of Bayer's heroin. Between 1890 and 1910 heroin was sold as a non-addictive substitute… Continue

Added by bob3160 on April 12, 2009 at 6:53am — No Comments

Booting the Apple Lisa 25 years later...

this thing is older than me!

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Added by Pj221 on April 5, 2009 at 8:41am — 3 Comments

windows 3.1 in dosbox

this is my first post so bear with me. So anyhow I was able to get windows 3.1 in dosbox but it isn't easy. I was useing fedora 4 with wine windows emulator and dosbox. first I downloaded dosbox duh! and then i googled download windows 3.1 and came up with vetusware.com witch i had to sighn up for and after sending me the worlds hardest to remember password i downloaded windows 3.1 then I had 7 folders labeld disk 1-7 so I created a directory and mounted it as a: then I coped the CONTENTS of the… Continue

Added by ian ferry on March 29, 2009 at 5:27pm — No Comments

Living with depression.

Many people have depression, including myself. I've never really told anyone about it because I always felt like if I admitted it, people would think I'm weak. But talking about problems and depression with people actually helps a lot. I was born with depression and I also have a high chance of type 2 diabetes because it runs in my family. Being only 14, this is a lot to deal with along with school. This probably isn't a place for posts like this, but what the heck. The worst part of depression… Continue

Added by Zach Kowalchuk on March 27, 2009 at 11:28pm — 5 Comments

The 130 year old woman.

A woman in Kazakhstan claims to be 130 years of age. Which I find hard to believe because I am pretty sure she has not lived that long. According to the woman she has no record of really being 130 because all she has is a "social security" card that says that she was born in 1897 (if memory serves right) you can go to Yahoo.com to watch the video yourself. But completely think that it is ludicrous to live that long. People are bound to pass sooner or later. But maybe the lady had lost it and dec… Continue

Added by Hsushoe on March 27, 2009 at 10:08pm — 1 Comment

Transfering PROGRAMS From One PC to Another?

Hey guys, I just bought a new HP desktop PC and am currently using an HP laptop PC. I know how easy it is to copy my files from this computer to the new one, however, is there a way to copy all of the PROGRAMS, not files, to the new one while still having them on the old laptop? I really don't want to have to go back to all of the websites and pull out all of the installation CDs again while still having to reconfigure all of the settings back to the way I like it for the programs. By the way, I… Continue

Added by David on March 8, 2009 at 10:39pm — 1 Comment