It’s a given fact that laptops bring more mobility, and it’s also a hassle to run both laptop and desktop for data integration purposes. Mobility in businesses is increasing day by day, and the efficiency of our society as a whole is increasing along with it. Laptops are becoming cheaper and much more affordable and more businesses and individuals are transitioning over to the laptop and blackberry driven world. Here are some things that are needed in order for our workforce and society as a whole to improve our efficiency.
Backup …

As I mentioned, I had a hard drive failure which resulted in a lot of losses. It was absolutely brutal.
My last back up was October 21st, before my trip to Costa Rica. And then last Wednesday, so around the 14th of November is when my hard drive crashed. The hard drive is beyond repair – the only way to get the data out of there was by a very expensive data recovery service ($400~$500 or so for a physical extraction of the magnetic disk and so forth), and by the …

As I had no hope of reviving my laptop on my own, I took my laptop to Futureshop to see if they can use their equipment to extract the data out of the hard drive. Turns out the hard drive itself is damaged, and even getting the data out of the thing will take overnight. So I was forced to make a quick decision on another laptop as i desperately need one.
Here’s how the problem occurred most recently – Windows Vista is not quite the most stable thing you can …

My laptop is not booting up properly and after trying everything I could imagine – attempt to boot it under safe mode, attempt to use ERD Commander for recovery, etc., I gave up and it’s now in the London Drugs computer department to have its data extracted. Once the data is extracted I will be restoring the laptop to factory condition and start over again. But this is a major pain in the ass, honestly.
I am currently able to use only my Windows XP machine which sits at my desk …

The iPhone, upon release, has been a great hit in the United States, and experts expect it will hit Canada before Xmas. It will probably be #1 on people’s Xmas lists! However there is a way to get it before that, because internet marketing blogger Gary Lee is giving away a free iPhone (visit this link to see how you can win) as part of his blog promotion scheme. According to Gary, the prize include a Brand New 8GB Apple iPhone + Fancy iPhone Bag that it came in + …

I already wrote about how space-conscious my home office setup is, and here are some additions to it. After I went through troubles with my old laptop screen, I purchased a new HP laptop, and the old one never got fixed. The new one runs Windows Vista, so testing in IE6 is out of the option unless I run some sort of a virtual machine, which would be just another resource-drain.
Anyhow, the solution was to run both my laptops, connected to a big monitor while I’m at home. This had …

The last time I purchased a refilled toner for a laser printer (a nice big HP printer that cost a lot of money), it had color streaks all along the side, sort of like a rainbow spectrum going through it. I printed dozens of pages, and shook the toners again and again to rectify the printing quality but it did not do it.
A while ago I took a shot at those ink refill kits for inkjet cartridges.
Well, the ink was crap. The ink would dry on the surface of my …