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How To Use – The Canon RC-1 Wireless Remote Control

How To Use – The Canon RC-1 Wireless Remote Control

By | May 8, 2012 at 6:13 pm | No comments

About the Canon RC-1 Wireless Remote Introduction The RC-1 Infrared Wireless Remote Controller can be used to release the shutter from up to 5 m (16 ft) away from a number of popular Canon EOS camera bodies (including EOS 10, Elan family, EOS IX, EOS Kiss III and EOS Kiss III...

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SD Card Speed Class Rating, Details and Specs

SD Card Speed Class Rating, Details and Specs

By | March 28, 2012 at 9:00 am | No comments

An SD card's speed is measured by how quickly information can be read from, or written to, the card. In applications that require sustained write throughput, such as video recording, the device might not perform satisfactorily if the SD card's class rating falls below a...

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Seagate Reaches 1 Terabit Per Square Inch Milestone In Hard Drive Storage

Seagate Reaches 1 Terabit Per Square Inch Milestone In Hard Drive Storage

By | March 23, 2012 at 9:00 am | No comments

CUPERTINO, Calif. - March 19, 2012 - Seagate (NASDAQ:STX) has become the first hard drive maker to achieve the milestone storage density of 1 terabit (1 trillion bits) per square inch, producing a demonstration of the technology that promises to double the storage capacity of...

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Apple TV (3rd generation) Teardown

Apple TV (3rd generation) Teardown

By | March 19, 2012 at 9:00 am | No comments

The A5 looks like APL2498. Judging what I have seen from iFixit for the N43V211 1207 N, the 1207 is manufacture year-week so 7th week of 2012. Of course there is another VTKC8017Q 1205, so perhaps 5th week of 2012. -Also from the internet it seems the RAM is Hynix, H9TKNNN4K,...

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Roku 2 XS Teardown

Roku 2 XS Teardown

By | March 16, 2012 at 9:00 am | No comments

First Impressions I gotta hand it to Roku; they made their new box look sexy. It has a very small form factor and is incredibly light. I did notice that the shiny plastic smudges and scratches easily. This doesn’t matter much in my cabinet, but it was a little disappointing...

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