Raspberry Pi Accessories
To make Raspberry Pi work, I need some accessories. When I ordered Raspberry Pi from the official site, it is a PCB only. I need the following items. USB keyboard and mouse. Prepared SD card. At least class4, 4GB. HDMI...
Category: Hardware
IR Universal Remote Control User Guide for Telus HD Box
I just start to use Telus TV service since 2012. I have a HD Box without PVR function. The remote control looks like the one below. For reference only, I put the User Guide here. If, you have same module,...
Raspberry Pi in the clean case
I ordered one case for my Raspberry Pi board. It is only about $8. It is a set of pre-cut acrylic board. I assembled it with easy click-on. No glue needed. Here is the front pic.
Fitbit zip wireless activity tracker
I bought one Fitbit Ultra to my wife. She is using it all day and night. I feel it is great tool. So I ordered one more Fitbit gardget for myself. It is called Fitbit Zip. It is a wireless...
Acurite Wireless Weather Forecaster
My 2012 Christmas gift is a weather station, Acurite Wireless Weather Forecaster. Weather the day with confidence with your own weather and weather prediction information – pinpoint accuracy right from your own backyard. The AcuRite Digital Weather Center uses patent-pending...
Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB WD10EZEX
In this new year season, I bought a set of desktop hardware and built a new PC. Here is the hard drive. Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB, SATA 3 (6GB/s), 7200RPM, 64MB Cache, 3.5in. It is designed for desktop, called...
Fix the broken usb cable for ipod shuffle
I have an ipod shuffle. Most of time, I play Xiangsheng on it. It uses an usb cable to charge the battery and also connect with itunes to tranfer data. The cable I have is not that sable. I have...
New SanDisk SDHC card
It is most popular memory card for digital cameras. SD card Based on the capacity, there is different type of SD card. Capacity SDSC (SD): 1 MB to 2 GB, some 4 GB available. SDHC: 4 GB to 32 GB SDXC: ≥32 GB to 2 TB I...
Some tips for Upgrade Windows 7 on Brand name PC
Say, there is a ASUS Laptop, which is shipped with Windows Vista. Now the user want to change it to Windows 7. Here is the tips to upgrade it. 1) Backup up the user files to a safe place. Maybe...
Make a bootable USB disk to flash MB BIOS
Sometimes I need to flash the mother-board BIOS from DOS. Actually now I have not tools can boot the PC to DOS. There is no floppy disk driver on it. I can only make a DOS bootable USB disk to...
Kobo Mini
I bought a Kobo about two years ago for my elder daughter, Grace. Last week I saw the black Friday deal from Chapters. Kobo Mini at $49.99, original price is $79.99. So I called it a great deal. It is...
Good deal of Dremel Trio Tool Kit 6800-01
I bought Dremel 3000 tool in September. I do like this brand, after using it a few times. Now I bought another tool kit from Dremel. It is Dremel Trio Tool Kit 6800-01. Here is the product page on official...
iPad mini with Wi-Fi 16GB – Black & Slate
The iPad mini I bought is iPand mini with Wi-Fi 16GB – Black & Slate. Size and Weight Height: 7.87 inches (200 mm) Width: 5.3 inches (134.7 mm) Depth: 0.28 inch (7.2 mm) Weight: 0.68 pound (308 g) Display 7.9-inch...
Kdbsync.exe stopped working – error
I keep getting this message every time I start my Windows 7 64bit, or “Catalyst Control Center.” It just started happening from last week. I have no idea why it happened. I already tried uninstalling and re-installing the drivers and...
PayPal has Pay After Delivery service
I make an online order at DX.com. Actually I just did an order last month. But this time there is a little bit different when I use PayPal to pay this order. It displayed an option on PayPal payment window....