With Pandora recently announcing that they will be revamping their Pandora One subscription, I felt it was time to upgrade my free edition of Pandora to the paid version. Now, being a subscription based user, I have hours and hours of advertisement-free music to listen to, but that doesn’t do me much good without something to help listen to it. Where they are built, what kind of drivers they use, their power input, audio frequency range, and their past experience all play an important role when making audio equipment. A speaker needs to be able to play every song, every…
Author: Justin Vendette
On October 4, Google took to the stage for millions of watchers to announce some new and upcoming changes to their brand. Known for their superior search engine and Android operating system, Google showed us that software isn’t all they can do. As a software company, Google has pioneered well within their market, but when looking at the hardware side of things, Google hasn’t had great success. A software company that goes out to manufacturer hardware can sometimes be a challenge. Today, Google isn’t a stranger to the hardware market, but their previous attempts to enter it have been a…
Back in the 1980s, if you wanted to share some computer files with a friend or transfer files to a secondary machine, it was common to use a floppy drive which stored data onto a magnetic disk. Floppy drives were common with most computers, but their storage capacities were limited. Then, ten years later, CDs became main stream media. CDs were stronger, cheaper to produce, and were more compact than the traditional floppy drive. After Apple stopped adding floppy readers into their computers, CDs were very popular for moving files to a secondary PC. CDs then began to fade away…
Music, gaming, Netflix, and sitting at our computers is what many of us are planning for as fall approaches and soon after brings winter. Even though I have a pair of speakers on my desk, I tend to wear my headphones for gaming or watching content. There’s that feeling that you are in your own environment, you can feel like you are there in the show or actually role-playing the character in your game. What better than to grab a headset that is fair in price, but rocks some of the best sounds on the market? During the last two…
During the almost seven years of being here at Tech Support Forum, I have met and helped thousands of people. People from different locations around the globe have visited this forum all seeking help for different things. All of these people that visit this forum are unique. Some speak different languages, live different life styles, have a different income, but one thing they all have in common is that they wish to solve a problem that they have facing them. Whether it be with computers, cars, gardening, graphical design, or even asking what college major to take, people tend to…
When I first got into desktop computing, it wasn’t how cool the computer looked or how well it performed, it was just about getting it working and completing the accomplishment of building my very first machine. My first computer build was constructed out of computer parts I could find and in the end it turned out pretty nice. In fact, it’s still in use today running Windows 7 32bit like a dream. I have since moved on to my secondary build where I took years of observing experience and applied it to this build. This was the time for perfection…
Here we go again with another sound system review, but as with every review there’s something special about this one. Movie theaters in recent years have begun to see a dip in visitors, mainly due to the fact that on demand and quality paid TV shows are becoming mainstream. With a click of a button on nearly any smart device, you can have a movie ready to go right in your own living room with the comfort of your own couch. Then when the movie’s all over, you are already home. So why go to the movie theaters any more…
In 1995 a movie called Hackers was released where some teenagers plot revenge after the main star, Crash Override, was framed for a million-dollar theft. In today’s computing life, the movie seems quite humorous for all of their networking and computing graphics, but in one of the movie’s scenes they show somebody holding onto some handheld wireless controllers while wearing this large headset on his head. The actor was playing a virtual reality game. This was the late 90s and the talk of such a gaming platform seemed impossible, yet they predicted something that has just now become mainstream. Virtual…
Summer is coming to end, but that doesn’t mean our parties or tunes need to end. Music brings people together and can make a stale gathering a rather innervating one. Moreover, music can also provide excellent background noise for when working outside or in the garage on a car. Sometimes though, there is more to the speaker than just giving you music. There’s the clean aesthetic appeal, the additional features, and, of course, the price. Everything from rugged, to high dollar, to compact and portable, I’ve taken my fair share in reviewing a large selection of speakers. After listening to…
Computer networking is one of the more challenging aspects of the informational technology world. Switches and routers, packets and frames, there is a lot of terms to understand and they need to be applied exactly to work. Although, when they do work people can be very appreciative. Most people’s understanding of computer networking is simple. You either have a wired or wireless connection to the World Wide Web, but the details behind how you connect are very complex. Have you ever noticed that when you are at work or at school that your wireless connection just always works? Your phone…