Ask if the toner cartridges are full on your new printer. Some ship with half cartridges to keep the upfront price lower. Look for page-yield specification on toner cartridges (i.e. www.hp.com/go/pageyield) and do that for each cartridge and then multiply that by the number of cartridges in the printer and divide by the yield to […]
Printer companies don’t make buying printers simple. They use lots of terms and buzzwords: PPM. DPI. Monochrome. Color. Piezoelectric. Thermal. To me, they sound like English tea kettle technologies. And if you have ever walked down the printer aisle of a big box superstore with rows of printers featuring superlative marketing claims (Super fast! Gorgeous […]
The music and movie industries have implemented methods to prevent copying and illegal redistribution of their products. Obviously, they do this to create jobs and make money and to protect their intellectual property. Of course, some would argue that they do this simply because they can. Unfortunately, these methods of protection limit our free use […]
« Back to Part 1 Firmware modifications are nothing new, either. What is firmware? Basically software that is written onto a device/chip. Firmware modifications are present everywhere from onboard car computer chips to home DVD and CD players. Sometimes, manufacturers release products that are priced based on features they include. A top-of-the-line product may be […]
What fascinates me about podcasts – homegrown audio and video shows distributed via the Internet – is not the people who make them, but rather the people who consume them, and the way they behave as consumers. Podcast consumers – let’s call them Poddies – are first and foremost accomplished technology enthusiasts. The Poddie demographic […]