Reading Time: 3 minutes The Acer Extensa 5230E makes a decent OS X Lion platform — especially with a few upgrades. This is apparently not a common OSX86 platform, but I’ve confirmed that it does in fact make a decent machine for running Mac OS X Lion. It was a tricky process, and if you’re not tech-savvy, it might be more […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute The first 1GB USB drive I bought was a Lexar Jumpdrive. This one is a bit smaller and faster. Too bad it doesn’t have a yellow LED to mimic a real firefly, or at least a green one like the “green-eyed” clicking fireflies — actually bioluminescent click beetles — that were ubiquitous in South Texas.
Reading Time: < 1 minute For a while, I’ve posted stats and quick reviews of USB flash drives. NirSoft has shown the way with a a great addition to a freeware utility called USBDeview. The newer versions of the program include the ability to not just speed test your drive, but upload the results, along with vendor and product ID’s, […]