May 2010

Mushkin Io 128GB SSD Review

by Jeff Weisbein May 30, 2010

I recently got my first solid state drive (SSD) as a gift from my girlfriend for our 5 year anniversary. I picked out the Mushkin Io 128GB SSD and boy is it fast. You truly don’t realize how much of a bottleneck your hard drive actually is until you have replaced it with a SSD. [...]

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Bowers & Wilkins P5 Review

by Jeff Weisbein May 30, 2010

A few months ago, I bought a pair of the Bowers & Wilkins P5 headphones. The headphones retail for $299.95 (a bit expensive, but so worth it). The B&W P5′s are noise isolating headphones and are dubbed as a “Concert for One”. Let me tell you, these bad boys are just that. To put it [...]

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The Future of Facebook May Be Lurking Around the Corner

by Jeff Weisbein May 28, 2010

Facebook is in the process of looking for some beta testers to help build the future of Facebook. It’s not some random selection process either. In order to enter yourself as a possible candidate you must think of three questions and answer them thoroughly as if you were writing an article or paper on the [...]

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Wowd: A New Approach to Search

by Jeff Weisbein May 28, 2010

Wowd is perhaps one of the most interesting search company’s that you have never heard of, at least, yet. Wowd is a search company but without the giant datacenters. Intrigued? Me too. The way Wowd was describe to me by their CEO, Mark Drummond, is Skype for search. How does it work? Wowd offers a [...]

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We’re Back, Just Like We Said We’d Be Back.

by Jeff Weisbein May 27, 2010

Well, we’re back. It has been over two weeks, but I think the downtime will be beneficial in the end. While that may seem like an odd thing to say, it has allowed me to have a lot of much needed time off from the site. In the past few weeks, I have been able [...]

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How To: Prepare for Travel with Technology

by Mike Mansell May 10, 2010

The summer travel season is right around the corner, and many BestTechie readers may be planning vacations and adventures. However, going on vacation (or any type of trip for that matter) doesn’t mean you have to become disconnected from your electronic life. This how-to will cover some of the key strategy’s for ensuring you are [...]

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Review: Fedora 13 Beta

by Mike Mansell May 8, 2010

As you may already know, the pre-release (beta) version of the Fedora Linux distribution was released two days ago. This release comes just more than a week after Canonical released the 10.04 version of their wildly successful Linux distribution, Ubuntu. Because of this, I was curious to see what aspects of Fedora 13 would be [...]

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BestTechie.net Turns 7 Years Old

by Jeff Weisbein May 7, 2010

Can you believe that 7 years ago today, I registered the domain BestTechie.net? Hard to believe that I’ve been running this site now for that period of time. I mean, 7 years old is considered an eternity in the tech industry. The first 7 years have been great and I hope the next 7 years are even [...]

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OneRiot Solves The Realtime Search Problem

by Jeff Weisbein May 7, 2010

Last October I wrote an article entitled “The Real Problem With Realtime Search” in which I explained one of the major problems of realtime search revolved around the lack of relevancy. In addition to the lack of relevance within results, we were inundated with unfiltered streams of the same data and most of the time [...]

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Google Launches Government Request Info Center

by Mike Mansell May 5, 2010

In our modern age of the Internet, people have a lot of concerns in the regard of computer and Internet privacy. One company that is often brought up in computer privacy debates is the Internet giant Google. Google is estimated to own upwards of one-million servers, and because of this often is seen as being [...]

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