In my previous entry, I touched a bit on the ability of QR codes on shared bikes, as a convenient and very cheap way to get around major cities. Shanghai has 24 million people in it, but we also visited the nearby Hangzhou, which “only” has 7 million people in its urban core. We saw […]

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Looking at China’s technological expertise firsthand during our week in Shanghai is simultaneously awe-inspiring and unnerving. We know that we’re in China’s most expensive city, which arguably pushes tech even further than it might be in other parts of the country, but even with that in mind, I sometimes felt like it will take the […]

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It’s hard to believe HeiseHeise.com has been on the Internet since May 2007 – I know, I have the bills from 1and1.com to prove it! Hard to believe I’ve been going to places like Jordan, China, and India and logging right into the admin page for the website through an HTTP connection – I might […]

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System restore can be great if Microsoft releases a botched update, or a program fails to install or uninstall properly. There’s several different scenarios in which System restore points can be useful to recover your system files back to a previously know “good” point. However, malware writers understand this too, and starting back in my […]

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Yesterday, Microsoft released the first potential build to Microsoft Insiders that could be RTM – release to manufacturing, i.e. the one that regular, non technical users see. I installed it without issue and was somewhat surprised at first to see that Microsoft had for the first time, included a Terms of Service agreement after the […]

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About six months ago, I fulfilled a (minor) dream of mine to own the most beastly portable computer ever made. The Dell XPS M2010 is the bigger brother to my former laptop, the M1210. Instead of a 12.1″ screen, it boasts a 20.1″ screen, dual hard drives, eight speakers (small, and arranged under the LCD) […]

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