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Interesting for the aware consumer

Portégé Z830 review. Fan noise fix

Posted on 09/04/2012 by freelander

Note that I’m not a professional reviewer. This article merely describes my experience with the Z830; it’s a real user’s point of view. I just happen own this laptop for several months, and I’m offering the information I would’ve liked … Continue reading →

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Asus Zenbook (UX series) keyboard and other issues.

Posted on 08/03/2012 by freelander

[:en]. It is an awfully bad keyboard. This is the bare, unobjectionable truth; and you can really stop reading here, because what follows is only a digression about it. As a professional, I’ve used many computers in my life, last … Continue reading →

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gstatic.com makes websites slow

Posted on 11/01/2012 by freelander

. For the past week or so, I’m experiencing a sensible slowness in my browsing experience: recently I often don’t manage to open Google maps, and at the same time some other websites, having -theoretically- nothing whatsoever to do with … Continue reading →

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Fix for Macbook white screen of death. Shame on Apple!

Posted on 18/12/2011 by freelander

If one day, on booting your Macbook (likely, after doing some serious modification to your hdd or filesystems), you hear the startup chime but you get an empty white screen showing no activity at all, which stays there forever, then … Continue reading →

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Gingerbread: Google Getting Greedier

Posted on 07/11/2011 by freelander

(Or why Google starts sucking.) At the beginning of times, when Earth was created, Google was Good. They had the “do no harm” philosophy; you were totally free to use their services or not, and when using them, you weren’t … Continue reading →

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Programmed obsolescency

Posted on 27/01/2011 by freelander

. La obsolescencia programada es una de las más flagrantes manifestaciones de la hipocresía de las naciones capitalistas. El hecho de que la industria fabrique productos diseñados para fallar, estropearse u obsolescer en uno u otro sentido al cabo de … Continue reading →

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Being too smart…

Posted on 11/01/2011 by freelander

… is the fastest way to stupidity And that’s what happens with the Blogspot crew. They think they’re so smart! Let’s say you’re spending some months in Ukraine, and let’s say you fancy creating a blog in blogspot.com. What do … Continue reading →

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Facebook and government

Posted on 16/07/2010 by freelander

Finally I’ve decided on writing a brief note about this interesting topic, as a continuation of my recent wall post. Sure, the “controlled Facebook” idea hadn’t crossed my mind before my friend -too fond of conspiracy theories- suggested it (well, … Continue reading →

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