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Archive for October, 2010
Ortek WKB-2000 Wireless SmartMedia Keyboard Reviewed
Oct 30th
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Amazon Product Link: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002UNFVK4/ref=cm_cr_mts_prod_img Manufacturer Link: http://bit.ly/9KRokh Reason for Purchase: Wireless Keyboard with Multi-touch Gesture Touchpad for HTPC usage |
Mini-Review
To start, I want to say that the gesture recognition was very nice. Being able to zoom, rotate, scroll, switch windows, open apps, and numerous other actions with a few fingers was exciting.
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Xbox360 Disc Read Errors
Oct 3rd
Well, as I posted several months ago, I successfully repaired the graphics overheating problem on my green Halo3 special edition Xbox360 (and several others since then). I’m happy to report that it is still going strong. Some have asked for a list of parts I used and a writeup on the procedure. As I never found time, it is now months later, and the NEW Xbox has been released, I may not get around to it. I do have the pictures but I’m just short on time. I will try to come up with a list of parts though. Believe me, after fixing several Xbox RROD overheating problems it is clear that the right parts are very important.
Anyway, as I stated in the previous Xbox post, the DVD drive started giving problems soon after the overheating (extremely frustrating to make it recognize a disc). Well, these problems soon escalated to the point of ridiculous Disc Read Errors. Most of the time the drive would not even recognize that any media existed when placed in the drive. Keep in mind you COULD get it to recognize a disc (game and movie) but it was a real pain. For instance, to get a disc to play this was my normal procedure: