The next revolution in mobile is screens

Last year, OnePlus and Asus, released two mobile phones which featured screen refresh rates higher than the every other phone in the market, 60Hz. OnePlus included phones with 90Hz screens while Asus had 120Hz screens, the latter option was directly aimed at gaming enthusiasts. This year, at least so far, Samsung seems to be following suit with their release of the S20 line. The S20 phones by Samsung went from S10s, last year, to S20s, this year. I suppose their nomenclature is following this decade. With that in...

February 18, 2020

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Mario Aigoloncet

Zoho vs GSuite, Email - Part 2

This is part 2 of my comparison between these two suites for families. As such, my focus is on how they help address my particular use-case, family use. Email is ubiquitous, even in a time of Texting, WhatsApp, Instagram or Facebook. As of today, most online registrations require an email address. This is the reason email support, in addition to support for groups and aliases is very important. Below is a list of the items I compared and how they faired: Feature GSuite Zoho Comments Webmail X X...

January 23, 2020

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Mario Aigoloncet

Zoho vs GSuite, which is best for families? - Part 1

I realize the title is odd, even weird. In general, those two suites of software have been geared towards the professional and enterprise markets. So why should either of these be considered for a family? That's an excellent question. Let me elaborate. I use my own domain for my email address. I also like to stay away from free services, or free options, because free normally equates to terms of service which result their selling of my data. Facebook and Google are great examples of service providers that...

January 20, 2020

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Mario Aigoloncet

Magnets are amazing

Magnets are so amazing, they kept Einstein enthralled in their mystery for many years. How can these "things", with no moving parts, generate forces? Why does that even happen? This post is not about how magnets work. It is about how magnets can help make food easier to cook. Cooking rice can be tricky. If you don't cook it well, you end up with raw rice. If you cook it too slowly, you will have burnt rice. Of course, after some trial and error, everyone figures it out....

January 18, 2020

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Mario Aigoloncet

Water-based air compressor?

About a month ago I wrote about a motor-less water pump. Moving water from one location to another has always been important, even more so, uphill. Water is an element we have been trying to harness since we grew out of a single-cell organism. Water gives us life, helps us to cultivate life, and feed life. This is why I found this next video fascinating. What if we could convert, and even store, the energy of water for later use. We often covert the energy of water into...

January 14, 2020

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Tiab James

PSA - Chinese budget laptops

A year back, my daughter's laptop broke. At that time I could not afford to replace it with the same MacBook Air she had and so I looked for a cheap replacement. I found one on Amazon, Jumper EzBook. If you look at the specs, the laptop is a steal. Though the CPU is not the fastest, it comes with a good amount of RAM and enough disk (considering everything is kept on the cloud these days) for normal duties. Even the screen is not so bad, with...

December 29, 2019

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Ro Saiciton

Star Wars: The raise of Skywalker?

I got a chance to watch the latest installment of the Star Wars saga, the Raise of Skywalker. Rather than giving you the normal movie review you've come accustomed to, I'll share with you the history of the saga. The star wars movies can be split into four categories: The original trilogy The prequel The sequels (of which this is an episode) The stories The original trilogy was groundbreaking. Until 1977, when the first movie was released (Episode 4: A new Hope), there had never been anything like...

December 23, 2019

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Mario Aigoloncet

Privacy and anonymity in the 2020s

Privacy is one of those privileges or commodities that we never appreciate until they are gone. I always find it fascinating that our entire world works around this one commodity, electricity, and we never take any time to appreciate its importance; either to protect it or even just to awe. Most of us will think, well, in a blackout, I could just use solar panels to charge my phone and laptop, and get a small stove (if yours is electric) and I'd be good, right? This is all...

December 12, 2019

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Mario Aigoloncet

A truck for a new century

Tesla has been hard at work in the past few years. While they had great initial success with their Model S and Model X, both were geared towards the luxury segment. This approach worked really well to get the marque into the minds of the American and global public. Tesla's next step was to lower the barrier of entry for their vehicles. In mid-2017, Tesla's entry model, the Model 3 was released. This was the first all-electric vehicle to have a range of over 300 miles and starting...

December 4, 2019

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Mario Aigoloncet

Plex and Racing shows

I'm a big fan of the Plex Media system, both the player and the server. We use it as our main source of entertainment. All of our shows and movies are held in the server. We have over 8TB of media indexed by it. The system works perfectly for any TV show and movie, which captures the majority of usage. However, the title of this post is about how to deal with the edge-case that is racing. Racing is like a TV show, in that it has seasons,...

November 7, 2019

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Tiab James