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Acer Aspire One : the Power of the Portable

July 21st, 2008 dawhoo

Ultra Portable Notebooks

In the last few years, the ultra portable notebook market has really taken off. The ultra portable notebooks rest firmly somewhere between a PDA and a full size (full power) notebook we all know and love. Until very recently, the Ultra portable notebooks have been little more than glorified PDAs with a computing power on par with high end cellphones. Combined with small screens, low power and micro storage , the ultra portable ’sub notebook’ wasn’t ready for the mainstream and was the realm of the micro Linux tech communities and people who built their own computers. Thanks to some recent additions to the sub notebook market, the new ultra portables are ready for the masses.

One of the greatest features of these ultra portable notebooks (sub notebooks) is the SSD (Solid State Drive). Not only are SSDs much lighter than their spinning cousins, SSD drives aren’t prone to failure from shock like standard platter hard drives. There are no moving parts in a SSD, so those little bumps aren’t going to scratch and damage the solid state drive like the standard hard drive. Solid state drives also use about 5% of the power of the standard HDD and this means a big boost in battery life. The problem with the SSD is the cost, these things are expensive and because of the limitations, most ultraportables have store capacities as low as 2GB.

The real attraction to the ultra portable notebook market is the ultra portability. You’ve seen pictures on the net, but until you have one in your hands, you won’t believe how small they really are. I mean small! These are smaller than most books and will fit easily into a purse. How’s that for portability!

Mac Book and Asus EEE PC

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Hostel Board Co Rail Jam

May 18th, 2008 dawhoo

Wake boarding in a parking lot

Hostel Board Company sponsored a wake boarding contest in a parking lot. It was a lot of fun and the contestants were really good. Check out Hostel Board Company to see the whole stroy and pictures from the event.

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Google Page Rank Update Underway

April 29th, 2008 dawhoo

Google updating web site rankings

It looks like Google is updating the page rank for many websites this evening. I’ve noticed several sites seeing a nice peak in Google Page Rank today. At this time, the data centers are not synchronized. Page rank can vary until all datacenters have loaded the latest updates on page rankings. All of the ranks should be accurate within 24 hours at the absolute most. If you’re using a toolbar page rank checker, be sure and clear the cache to get accurate ranking score.

Google page rank updates are irregular and seem to follow an Indus Script pattern for updates. It has been 62 days since the last update to Google page ranks. The latest update was February 26, 2008. It was reported that Google Toolbar, a browser plugin for checking page rank, was going to add a new 11 point scale. As of this writing, all data centers are still exporting the 10 point scale to my toolbar.

While it’s true that Google’s web page rank is continually changing, the data center ranks are the de facto standard measurement used by web managers for search optimization tracking.