James Chamberlin

I have no idea how much time it took these guys to work on these quadrocopters, but the juggling video they put out sure looks cool.

Over the last six months, Charter has rolled out I believe two free internet speed upgrades and they haven’t been shy about saying it. At times, Charter’s ads for patting themselves on the back outnumber any other single company. I don’t think even Geiko can compete in the number of ads I’m seeing now. What [...]

As a Gmail user, I found the recent story of Google mistakenly deleting millions of emails belonging to some 39,000 users to be frightening. It, along with the Flikr user who lost thousands of photos because of a mistake made by a Flikr staffer has me wondering how much we should be trusting these enormous [...]

I’ve had a love-hate relationship with computer mice for as long as I remember. My favorite mice were of the trackball variety. I loved those. I liked not having to move the mouse all over the desk, just moving my fingers to control the mouse pointer. After a few of them died after just a [...]

Despite Intel’s botched Sandy Bridge release, I’m still excited about them. I know the SATA problems are well documented at this point, but there’s no question that those new CPUs are great. Intel’s public reputation will be restored to a degree after those faulty motherboards are recalled in full and new ones are released. It [...]

A few weeks ago, I mentioned the fact that Intel had me drooling over the new Sandy Bridge chipset. The CPUs are incredibly fast and are priced fairly well. Today, the Sandy Bridge came crashing down due to a huge design flaw. It’s related to the SATA controller, making anything connected to it vulnerable to [...]

If you talk to a hundred computer users what they use for antivirus, you’ll get dozens of answers. I’ve tried my share of A/V programs over the many years and have been very happy with the free version of Avast for the last three years. It works. It doesn’t bog down my system. Did I [...]

My two computers are showing their age. While they both run reliably, neither one of them is considered fast by today’s standards. Intel’s new Sandy Bridge technology frankly has me drooling, even more after seeing Anandtech’s video encoding tests. The Intel i7 2600k was able to outpace almost all other CPUs except for the i7 [...]

I’ve been using TeamViewer to connect to a friend’s PC and all of a sudden it doesn’t work. We’ve both updated our versions to the latest and still I can’t connect to him. He can connect to me. It’s inconvenient that I have to wait for him to be online at the same time because [...]

Thanks to my Tivo, I haven’t had to watch nearly as many commercials as I used to. The Super Bowl is another story however. While there were only a couple of decent ones, there’s one that I can’t get out of my head lately. It’s from Old Spice and I love it.