Human beings can cultivate some incredibly bizarre obsessions. The weirdest ones, though, often involve the most mundane things—just fixated on to an astounding degree. Fortunately, the internet is here to give these beautiful weirdos a home to call their very own.
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As I was about to publish my review about a month ago, the HP 11 Chromebook sale was put to an halt upon report of overheating charger. It was decided to wait until how this will affect the future of the device before putting the article online. At the core of the issue, there were “nine reports of chargers overheating and melting during use”. The recall affected 145,000 units. The charger was from a 3rd party, and not from HP, subcontracted by Google.
On the 12/17/2013, Google and HP officially started the charger recall/exchange program. In case the user did not follow the news, the ChromeOS was patched to notify the owner about the recall. A picture of the “new” and the “old” charger was displayed to the user to identify. There is an option to opt out. The charger would be sent first with a packing slip to return the recalled device.
That being said, I did not notice any overheating with the charger. I actually used it to replace my Samsung Note 3 charger. I would charge my note 3 at night and the HP chromebook during the day while I am out of the house. Using an infrared thermometer gun, the reading are; 68.4°F for the Pixel and 68.3°F for MBA and 109.6°F for the HP 11 charger, room temperature was 68.2°F. I am awaiting the replacement charger from Google and would update this review if needed.
The timing of this was very unfortunate for HP/Google. Although the charger issue was addressed, the Chromebook HP 11 is still showing as “out of stock” on the main vendors websites. Hopefully they will get back on the shelves, because, although the Chromebook HP 11 is not perfect, it is still a cutie. Let’s take a closer look. (more…)
HP 11 Chromebook Review original content from Ubergizmo. 
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When the rock group, The Eagles first penned their iconic top-forty hit, "New Kid in Town,"
with lyrics that spoke to: "talk on the street. . . everybody’s
watching you," the year was 1976, predating the Internet by almost two
decades. While spot-on prescient as to what was to come, surely Don
Henley, Glenn Frey or Joe Walsh couldn’t have known the level of
surveillance that’s blanketed the world we NOW live in…
The Sony A7 series
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Those building their own PC have to go through a sea of PC components that is often not easy to navigate, not because the specs are hard to read, but because it is virtually impossible to form an opinion on the build quality of PC accessories based on what’s available online. When I started shopping for a drive cage for a new PC I’m building I wanted to have a drive cage that was neat and solidly built. After some research I zeroed in on this particular iStarUSA BPN-DE340SS (DE stands for “dove eye”) so I’m putting this review together so that others may benefit from the experience gathered with this purchase. iStar USA also has bigger and smaller versions of the same design.
iStarUSA BPN-DE Drive Cage Review original content from Ubergizmo. 
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It appears when Ben Mezrich penned his tell-all book about the
early beginnings of Facebook and included the bon mots "money" and
"betrayal" in its title, he had paved a path for another to follow.
After all if one social network could be launched on greed and
deception, couldn’t others? Good ole Machiavellian ethics may be as old
as time, but it appears to be the common denominator for both…
Portable vaporizers are a dime a dozen these days, but the idea of inhaling nicotine from a mystery mix of liquids and chemicals can be off-putting at best. With the Firefly in your hand, you’ll know exactly what you’re lighting up.
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It’s difficult to say good-bye to a man as formidable as Nelson Mandela.
TV, Radio and the blogosphere have been flooded with updates, and I
suspect this will continue for some time. Living in the digital age, as
mankind moves forward, it’s apparent that we will all be memorialized
when the time comes with what we leave behind on the Internet.
The curved glass panel is the most noteworthy thing about the LG G Flex. The only other thing you must know is that you should not consider buying this phone.
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Perhaps not as funny as the classic 1938 comedy sketch "Who’s on First?"
popularized by Abbott and Costello, but it does bring a smile to one’s
face when anybody is able to give Google a run for their money. Such is
the case when the Northern American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD)
backed by Microsoft and Bing take on the Granddaddy of search engines in
a face-off that pits one Santa Tracker against another.
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