http://hireoliver.com Help has arrived! Thu, 25 Mar 2010 09:03:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://hireoliver.com http://hireoliver.com//wp-content/plugins/favicon.ico http://hireoliver.com/2009/03/10/road-warriors-dream/ http://hireoliver.com/2009/03/10/road-warriors-dream/#comments Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:43:41 +0000 Oliver http://hireoliver.com/?p=524 If you are like me and seem to be traveling all the time… your laptop can take a beating… even if you try to be careful. I have a Sony Vaio that follows me everywhere… and it has logged more miles on the road than my current car. It is beginning to show some signs [...]]]> http://hireoliver.com/2009/03/10/road-warriors-dream/feed/ 0 http://hireoliver.com/2009/02/12/yet-another-apps-store-contender/ http://hireoliver.com/2009/02/12/yet-another-apps-store-contender/#comments Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:00:48 +0000 Oliver http://hireoliver.com/?p=507 Yes… the biggest of them all… Google is now joining the app store fiasco. They are launching a new section in their app store for Android phones that will allow developers to start charging people for the apps they download. Comparing the best of the worst… Apple splits profits with developers 70/30. Google will be leading [...]]]> http://hireoliver.com/2009/02/12/yet-another-apps-store-contender/feed/ 0 http://hireoliver.com/2008/11/05/getting-the-most-out-of-your-wireless-router/ http://hireoliver.com/2008/11/05/getting-the-most-out-of-your-wireless-router/#comments Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:48:01 +0000 Oliver http://hireoliver.com/?p=340 http://hireoliver.com/2008/11/05/getting-the-most-out-of-your-wireless-router/feed/ 0 http://hireoliver.com/2008/10/24/turning-it-off-or-keeping-it-on/ http://hireoliver.com/2008/10/24/turning-it-off-or-keeping-it-on/#comments Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:21:42 +0000 Oliver http://hireoliver.com/?p=288 One very common question that I get as a computer technician is “Should I turn off my computer or just leave it on all the time?” Since this isn’t a black/white question let me take a moment to explain… This is no real simple answer to the question, but I can offer some advice that might [...]]]> http://hireoliver.com/2008/10/24/turning-it-off-or-keeping-it-on/feed/ 1 http://hireoliver.com/2008/10/07/amd-falling-apart/ http://hireoliver.com/2008/10/07/amd-falling-apart/#comments Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:24:05 +0000 Oliver http://hireoliver.com/?p=79 I remember much earlier in the year reading about the trouble that AMD was having; I thought Intel was simply going to take over the world of CPU manufacturing. It looks like AMD hasn’t given up yet though. They have decided to split up into two main parts: Chip producing [Continuing on as AMD] and chip [...]]]> http://hireoliver.com/2008/10/07/amd-falling-apart/feed/ 2 http://hireoliver.com/2008/02/19/finally-hd-dvd-dead/ http://hireoliver.com/2008/02/19/finally-hd-dvd-dead/#comments Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:52:44 +0000 Oliver http://hireoliver.com/2008/02/19/finally-hd-dvd-dead/ For all the uber early adopters out there… HD-DVD is officially dead. Toshiba announced that in March they will be ending production and marketing of their HD-DVD devices, including those used in game systems. I feel bad for those really geeky geeks that paid extra for the HD drive in their 360’s, but it serves them [...]]]> http://hireoliver.com/2008/02/19/finally-hd-dvd-dead/feed/ 1 http://hireoliver.com/2008/02/11/the-war-is-almost-over/ http://hireoliver.com/2008/02/11/the-war-is-almost-over/#comments Tue, 12 Feb 2008 03:45:53 +0000 Oliver http://hireoliver.com/2008/02/11/the-war-is-almost-over/ Well, if you haven’t already heard… The war between Blu-ray and HD DVD is soon coming to an end… hopefully. I remember hearing rumors that Blu-ray had taken the lead because some of the major motion pictures backed Sony on their voyage to victory, and now the effects of those backings seem to be sprouting up [...]]]> http://hireoliver.com/2008/02/11/the-war-is-almost-over/feed/ 1 http://hireoliver.com/2008/02/08/amd-no-more/ http://hireoliver.com/2008/02/08/amd-no-more/#comments Fri, 08 Feb 2008 14:38:56 +0000 Oliver http://hireoliver.com/2008/02/08/amd-no-more/ It seems like only yesterday that Dell announced it would start throwing AMDs into some of their machines. Well it was literally only yesterday when I found out that Dell would stop shipping their computers with AMDs in them, or at least through dell.com. There was alot of buzz when AMDs first went into them and [...]]]> http://hireoliver.com/2008/02/08/amd-no-more/feed/ 0 http://hireoliver.com/2008/02/01/2006-all-over-again/ http://hireoliver.com/2008/02/01/2006-all-over-again/#comments Fri, 01 Feb 2008 20:28:29 +0000 Oliver http://hireoliver.com/2008/02/01/2006-all-over-again/ http://hireoliver.com/2008/02/01/2006-all-over-again/feed/ 2 http://hireoliver.com/2008/01/09/alienwares-next-gen-monitor/ http://hireoliver.com/2008/01/09/alienwares-next-gen-monitor/#comments Wed, 09 Jan 2008 20:32:28 +0000 Oliver http://hireoliver.com/2008/01/09/alienwares-next-gen-monitor/ Recently Alienware has unveiled a newly designed gaming monitor; curved! The 42-inch monitor is powered by rear projection technology because LCD and Plasma technology cannot be bent. The monitor boasts a resolution of 2880×900 and has a great reaction time of 0.2ms. The monitor only needs one DVI to display your content so if [...]]]> http://hireoliver.com/2008/01/09/alienwares-next-gen-monitor/feed/ 1