Lenovo’s latest 15.4” IdeaPad has probably made quite a few people a bit interested given it’s decent specs and sub-$1,000 price point. Then again if your even a little smart you know to wait for reviews especially when it comes to the less upgradeable hardware… like laptops.
Well for those of you that are smart enough to hunt down online reviews your time has come as HotHardware has gone all out and pretty much abused this little piece of discount hardware. While it’s got a decent bit of computer memory, and it’s packing the Core 2 Duo along with a NVIDIA GeForce 9300M and they strained it to the limits to see just how far the laptop could go. The testing wasn’t to see if some joe-schmoe could use word easily, they pushed it to see if it could handle gaming situations and how it managed them.
Apparently one of the biggest features they loved was the 15.4” display that was extremely crisp, not to mention the noteworthy stability even under heavy stress. I won’t go into the full details of their review, but it comes down to… well gaming is good but if your a heavy gamer you’ll probably want to spend some extra cash. But as a do-it-all and don’t crash no matter how hard you push it, especially for under that $1,000 price it’s a really solid purchase.
Source: HotHardware
Well after fighting it for a very long time we’ve decided to move to wordpress and as you can see it’s just launched, things may be a little bit hit and miss at the start as we’re busy relaunching, we’re hoping to maintain 100% link compatability with our old link structure. As you know the old way of permalinks were really really nasty so the fact that we’re making this move is going to be a bit difficult as we’ve got a few thousand pages that all need to seemlessly transfer over.
Our fear is that we’ll loose PageRank or we’ll loose our indexing power in google, but due to the fact that only 1/2 our pages were getting indexed, and the tremendous number of plugins and third-party wordpress support we felt it was time to move to WordPress, not because it’s PHP, no I still love my ASP.NET as you’ll see on all my other sites, but the fact is we needed to move to a platform with the wide range of third party plugin support, and WordPress just has this part of the market cornered.
The university of Illinois researchers have some big news in the way of the world’s smallest working fuel cell. You know the rumored power of the future, just in a very very very small package. So small as you can see in the image it’s smaller than most watch batteries. In fact the fuel cell measures in at only 3mm x 3mm x 1mm and is comprised of only 4 layers. The water reservoir, the thin membrane that makes it work, a chamber of metal hydride and of course the teeny tiny electrode assembly.
The tiny fuelcell packs low voltage coming in at 0.7 volts and 0.1 milliamp current that it can push for about 30 hours. A newer version is said to boost the milliamperage up to a full milliamp. Of course this is definitely not enough to go powering a cell phone or a TV or anything like that. It could however be used for smaller electronics and you know things like the microbots and those swarm bots we heard that Darpa wants to build.
Here’s something exciting for every Xbox fan/Resident Evil lover. The upcoming blockbuster RE5 may just have something awesome in store for those of you looking for a wicked bundle. The boys over at Arstechnica you know the awesome site that well gets a lot of rumors right apparently has a gaming related source that has some information on a Resident Evil 5 themed Xbox360 set to come to market.
This won’t be a game shoved in a box with a picture on the box, no apparently the rumor is that the xbox360 RE5 bundle will come with a custom Red Xbox360 Premium, Red Remote, of course a copy of Resident Evil 5 as well as a full on Premium NXE Resident Evil 5 theme, and as an odd bonus Super Street Fighter Turbo HD code for download. As it stands the entire thing is a rumor, and it all seems very exciting hell I want a red Xbox360! And I’ve been considering buying a new one for my bedroom anyway :)
Source: Engadget
Everyone might have noticed in the past few weeks we’ve been having some nasty outages, as of late we’re still unable to track down what’s causing the actual outages, it could be a server or a co-location issue but we’re unsure which. One thing we’re considering is bringing the server back to the Caribbean so that we can monitor it directly. But considering how much cheaper it is hosting in the US we think we might try a different host first. So that idea got me hunting for reviews of different vps hosts and co-location sites that we might be able to use during our transfer/relocation.
As I know a fare few people that stop by NTN are webmasters I thought it would be a good idea to bring up a nice gem named WebHostingGeeks they basically have a large list of all types of webhosts and they have done some pretty good reviews to cover all the necessary bases to make it easy to make a informed decision. In the past I’ve been to several review sites but it seems to be difficult to find sites that review windows based solutions as if we do decide to bring it back to the Caribbean it’s gonna take 4-5 days to get here and setup so we can’t have all of our sites offline and a solid VPS would be great as a stopgap during the transfer while we fine tune the server.
A site like WebHostingGeeks is pretty helpful especially since ever webhost says their the best and have 0 downtime etc etc, which is all pretty much bull it’s nice to get a roundup from a third party. Even if your just looking for a host that will be a bit more environmentally friendly I mean they’ve even got a list of green web hosting companies.
Take this post in 2 ways, 1 that we’re planning a big move to improve stability as well as a tip for your hosting needs. 
