Have you ever done something outside of your comfort zone? Physically challenged yourself beyond what you believed your threshold to be? Well, there is a world wide challenge called the Warrior Dash. I know most of you challenge yourself, mentally, but physically?  This is a great challenge even for those who do not consider themselves physically fit.  So today’s highlight …

It’s time for summer to start. Not sure where you might be located, but the weather here in Ontario is beginning to get a little annoying; cold and rainy today.  I am thankful we didn’t receive the snow that some parts north of us did. It was the perfect day to take in a movie, 21 Jump Street. Some great laughs …

I wonder how many people out there have never heard of Dick Clark? If I were a betting person, I would bet that even those people who claim not to be into music or never watched American Bandstand still heard of him. Who could never seen at least one New York City new year’s ball drop? What a great legacy… if we …

Do you like to share? The wonder of the internet has made that a whole lot easier. It’s interesting because while most ‘Techies”, I know, prefer to work alone they thrive on sharing their information with others. So allow me to share some “tech” reviews I collected recently and check out the highlight item, love it! HIGHLIGHT REVIEW Upgrade Your House (Custom …

Our report today will examine the Memoright MS-701 mSATA SSD. The MS-701 is the first of it’s kind as it is the only SATA 3 SandForce Driven mSATA SSD in existence at the 240GB capacity point. Even better news is the fact that Memoright, a company that has remained loyal to enterprise and business sales traditionally, has set up shop …

The Renice X3 240GB mSATA SSD will be our second review of a high capacity mSATA SSD and follows of our recent review of the Samsung PM830 256GB  mSATA SSD. While the Renice is SATA 2, with the Samsung PM830 being SATA 3, it’s value cannot be understated as it is only the second mSATA SSD that has reached this …

Top baby names for the first quarter of 2012 have been released.   Nice to see some ‘traditional names’. How does one come up with a baby name  these days?  How you do you look at your baby and decide you should be named ‘square’, (you get my drift).  There are people named fruits, articles, historical events, didn’t we used to call those ‘nicknames’. …

Our SSD report today examines the Kingston HyperX 3K 240GB SATA 3 SSD, ‘3k’ signifying Kingston’s move to the more economical 3k PE (program/erase cycles) rated NAND for increased consumer value. For the typical consumer, this will mean little as their new HyperX 3k will still last years, however, interestingly enough, Kingston claims no performance loss for the better value …

It wasn’t so long ago that we had a sit down with Crucial/Micron at Storage Visions 2012 and they spoke of their SSD plans for the year, the Adrenaline Caching SSD and production of a mSATA SSD being high priorities on the list. Shortly after that venture, we reviewed the Adrenaline and here we are back once again with announcement, …

Our SSD Review today is going to examine the Comay Venus 3 SATA 3 240GB SSD. Comay is a brand of SSDs manufactured by CoreRise Electronics Ltd, one of three SSD companies located in China with the others being Renice and Runcore. The Comay line is a typical ‘SandForce Driven’ family with limited availability as the company is relatively new, …