It’s common for PC gamers to pull a tongue-in-cheek joke about how console gamers should convert to the dark side and join the PC Gaming Master Race, but the underlying reality is that most PC gamers themselves started on a console. I sure did, all the way back on the Nintendo N64 as I am sure most of you did too. After that, I made the jump to the original Xbox and upgraded later to the Xbox 360. Hours upon hours of games were played on the Xbox, with one of my favorite games being Battlefield Bad Company 2. When…
Author: Justin Vendette
If you work in IT, you will be familiar with what a standard business server room sounds like. For those that aren’t so familiar, let me give you some insight. A server room is often a medium-sized room that contains rack-mounted computer equipment. This equipment is expensive and works around the clock 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. You’ll find networking switches, cores, and firewalls as well as storage racks and virtual machine hosts. As this equipment is meant to run non-stop, it gets hot. To keep the equipment cooled and functioning, the racked mounted equipment holds high…
Despite being involved in the technology world and having all of these products on Qwerty Articles to review, I often stay away from the latest and greatest technology. By the time I had finally gotten a smartphone, friends of mine were already on their third or fourth. I started off getting the most popular smartphone way back then, the Samsung Galaxy S3. It was slightly cheaper than an iPhone at the time, and it offered more bang for your buck. I loved my Galaxy S3; it had Samsung’s big new user interface push behind it with new technology that no…
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During the snowy months in Wisconsin, people appear to lose the ability to drive like normal, well-behaved human beings. The white, slippery powder that falls from the sky and lies on our roads has little effect on drivers as they drive as if it were a summer’s day. There will always be drivers who believe they are unstoppable in the snow. They will slide about with their bald tires, wait to stop the car until the last possible minute, and drive around as if they own the road. Driving is dangerous enough and when you introduce snow into the equation…
I have a confession to make. Before this review, I was somebody who was reusing passwords and stored them inside my head, occasionally resetting the passwords when I forgot them. Everywhere you go on the internet needs an account to access specific website features. An account that can use a username or email as identification followed by a password to gain access to that account. As we expand our website browsing habits, we need to begin to remember more logins and with that more passwords. Almost all of us will have a username that we like to use everywhere and…
We all know of the Tesla car band, a brand that has pioneered itself on its autonomous self-driving cars. We may have been promised flying cars in the future, but self-driving ones are a good alternative. As advanced as these cars may be, they are still using battery technology that was invented decades ago. Underneath a Tesla are hundreds of laptop-style batteries that exhaust their power over time to propel the car forward at an insane rate. Now, I don’t know about you, but my laptop battery can’t go more than a couple of hours under a modest workload, let…
It wasn’t all that long ago when we shared data via CDs and DVDs. Their low cost was cheap enough for us to hand out CDs and DVDs to one another as if they were candy. Nowadays, CDs and DVDs have nearly vanished from existence with practically every laptop on the market having no reader. Most households had stacks of CDs available to them and now you’re looked at with a strange look if you’re still using one. Cloud storage has expanded at an insane rate. We have options from Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Dropbox that give us free online…
People love music. To some it’s a calling from the universe meaning something, to others it’s a relaxing melody, and to me, it’s a way to stay focused on what I am doing. These reviews would be a lot duller if I sat here in silence. We have music in our homes and our cars, but when we leave both, we want to take that music with us. This is where the wonders of Bluetooth come in. Portable speakers are found all over QWERTY Articles with pricing for them ranging from inexpensive to “how could somebody pay that much for…
I am a huge fan of the quote by the American businessman, Paul J Meyer saying that “Communication – the human connection – is the key to personal and career success.” Communication: the conveyance of sharing visual and audible objects and sounds to those around us. We can’t help ourselves but communicate with people. The best example of communication comes from a sports team, notably electronic sport gaming teams. As they sit at their computers, eyes glued to the screen and headsets capturing their every sound, their teammates rely on the communication of each other for a successful win. Commands,…