What The Heck Archive

  • Have your iPhone icons gone all crazy?

    Have your iPhone icons gone all crazy?

    It was a day like any other, my routine always the same: Roll out of bed an hour later than I should, then walk over to my iPhone and haphazardly bat at it to try and stop the alarm from screeching for the fifth time that morning. Walk to the bathroom, then pop open the [...]

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  • Review: Touchatag RFID System

    Review: Touchatag RFID System

    You always remember your first time, right? That heady rush, the embarrassment that turns into passion, that sense that this, this moment right now, is what you’re living for. You could stay this way forever or die today - it didn’t matter. I think Bryan Adams said it best when he wrote: I got my first [...]

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  • Gadget Club Round 2 Winner

    Gadget Club Round 2 Winner

    OK. I’m happy to report that Round 2 of the Gadget Club Contest passed by without a hitch and now we’re on to Round 3. Before I show you the new entrants, however, let’s announce the Round 2 winner, shall we? Based on my queries, here is the breakdown: Beer Pong 2 WIIPOD 37 NBPlex 5 Crazy Camera 2 GeckoCords 22 So, as we see, the WiiPod [...]

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  • MacBook Slow? SATA interface in MacBook Pro drops from 3.0Gbit to 1.5Gbit

    MacBook Slow? SATA interface in MacBook Pro drops from 3.0Gbit to 1.5Gbit

    Bad news, sports fans. It looks like Apple has downgraded the speed of the SATA interface in the newest revision of the MacBook Pro. While the previous MacBook Pros had a 3.0 Gbit SATA interface, benchmarks show that the current MacBook Pro only clocks in at 1.5 Gbit.

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