Just Another Dang Blog

Well this is sort of a short review and a tutorial on how to capture from a minDV Sony handycam to your PC. But before that here are some background. I still have this Sony DCR-HC48 camcorder that I bought couple of years ago back when HD camcorder were still pretty expensive about $800-$1500. With [...]

I heard about terabytes which is 1000 gigabytes, but not petabyte. With all people storing music, taking pictures, storing videos, HD movies, games etc, documents, database backups etc on to their computer. It’s amazing how storage needs to get bigger and bigger to accomodate these files. Mozy one of the leading online backup services I [...]

In the spirit of unboxing new gadgets, I’m posting some unboxing photos and my review for the HP Mini 2140 I got for my wife. After researching the best bang for the buck for what UMPC (Ultra Mobile PC) to get. Commonly known as netbook as a more general term but other PC makers don’t [...]

Just got a new SATA drive, if you have your primary drive as an IDE and install a new SATA drive, it won’t show up instantly when you go to My Computer. That is because the drive is not formatted yet. To fix this you need to format the drive and assign a label. Here [...]

This is indeed so crazy, I wish I had the funds to get one of these babies. Imagine the power and speed on working your projects. 12 GB of memory, Intel Core i7 920 / 2.66GHz and 1TB SATA-300 hard disk. whoa!! monster!! Quoted from Tigerdirect.com ASUS P6T Intel Socket LGA1366 Barebone Kit The ASUS [...]