Yahoo Widgets

I use yahoo widgets on my desktop pc. Its pretty much the equivalent to Dashboard in Mac OS X.

I really only use two widgets for it at the moment, Theweathernetwork’s WeatherEye and planner widget that lets me organize all of my school assignments and what not.

It is completely free and very helpful depending on what widgets you get.

There is almost a widget out there for everything you want to do on your computer. From system monitoring widgets to random amusing widgets. It is much, much better than the windows sidebar feature in windows vista. I doubt its better than dashboard in Mac OS X, though. Yes, It is Mac OS X compatible as well.

I reccomend you check it out @widgets.yahoo.com

#002-Seagate Barracuda 7 200.11RPM 500GB Hard Drive Review

Product #: ST3500320AS

This OEM Serial ATA Hard Drive from Seagate is a very high performance drive for the price.

This drive features a 3 Gb/s NCQ Interface with a fast 105mbps transfer rate and a 32mb cache. It spins with an RPM of 7200.11 like most hard drives today. It also features 976,773,168 guaranteed sectors. The average latency of this drive is 4.16ms(nominal);A Random read seek time of <8.5 msec and a random write seek time of <9.5msec. With an annual failure rate of 0.34%; This drive is very reliable. The physical dimensions of this drive are 26.1mm(H)x101.6mm(W)x146.99mm(L) with a typical weight of 543 grams(1.99lbs).

If you want the full performance with the 3Gb/s you will have to remove the jumper as Seagate ships it with the jumper set to the 1.5Gb/s transfer rate. This drive is also very quiet and runs at an average temperature of around 50 Degrees Celsius(122F) and also does not consume much power with a maximum current of 3.0 DC amps.

Prices:
$69.99-Newegg.com
$84.11-NCIX.com
$69.99-Memoryexpress.com

#001-Vantec NexStar Hard Drive Dock Review

I recently purchased this item so I could access the data on my two seagate hard drives that were in my desktop that had an unexpected death. I needed to get to the information on the hard drives so I went to my local computer store and they had it in stock.

The packaging is very apple like. When you first open it, the dock is right there, nice and neatly packaged with black packing surrounding it. It comes with the dock, power adapter, USB Cable, an eSata cable, a SATA to eSata bracket, the user manual and the cd driver.

It is very easy to setup, unbox it, plug in power, plus usb or the esata in to your computer, drop in a hard drive and press the power button.

3.5″ and 2.5″ Hard drives are supported up to one terabyte and is compatible with both Mac+PC.

The entire body is made out of white plastic which is a bit disappointing because it is practically weightless giving it portability but makes it light and fragile with potential to be knocked off your desk without a hard drive placed in it. With a hard drive placed in it, it is weighted very well.

The dimensions of this product are 136mm(W)x83mm(D)x87mm(H).

I highly recommend this hard drive dock if you need to access data on a hard drive but Don’t want to buy an external enclosure.

How to turn of UAC.

Ever wanted to turn off that annoying window that pops up in vista when you open a program. “You have opened (insert program name here), Cancel or allow”.

Unless you don’t have a good antivirus program, theres really no point in having it activated if you do have a good antivirus program.

First, you need to get to your control panel.
Then go to user accounts.

You’ll then want to open user accounts.

From there, in the list of links, you will see a link with a little shield on the left of it. Thats where you want to click. Once you click, UAC will pop up and ask you if you want to continue, Click Continue.

Now, there should be something that looks like this on your screen.

Then just restart your computer and UAC should be disabled.