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  • Microsoft Band 2 battery issue

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    ianpaullin
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    Two weeks ago on Tuesday, my Microsoft Band 2 started acting up. I’ve had zero problems or complaints with the device so far. Oddly enough, the Band 2 just stopped responding in the middle of the day. When I got back home to charge it – it complained that the battery had completely drained and I had…

  • Microsoft Band 2 Review

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    I’ve been using the Microsoft Band 2 for a few weeks now and I can say I’m thrilled with it. In comparison to the original Band, it’s significantly better by leaps and bounds. If you’re in the market for a health tracker/watch, the Band 2 is my best recommendation. It’s probably everything the first gen should have…

  • Microsoft Band 2 arrived!

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    ianpaullin
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    I pre-ordered the Microsoft Band 2 back in early October and according to the UPS shipping tracker, it was scheduled to arrive on Monday. Fortunately, it arrived on Saturday so Sunday I had started using it to see what had changed. After only using it for one day, it’s been a remarkable difference. The original…

  • Microsoft 'Fitness' Band released

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    Microsoft announced a new product that I don’t believe anyone was fully aware that was coming – a fitness tracker. By the looks of it, it appears to be a better than most of these smart watches that happen to do health monitoring. In Microsoft’s “Band” product (not sure about whether the name is good…

  • Digital Storage at Home: My storage story

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    For years I never had any kind of storage or backup plan. From the late 90’s to early 2000’s, I had used 1GB Iomega Jaz drives for storage but over time, I thought I could resort to using CD-ROMs. I also kept adding larger hard disks figuring that I wouldn’t need anything serious. Four years…

  • Digital Storage at Home: Planning for storage nirvana

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    You’ve decided to take the plunge into sharing digital storage between your computers, tablets, phones, home theater PCs, etc. Fantastic. It may seem like overkill, but as I’ve pointed out before we have so much to capture, share and download from the Internet, while keeping all the old artifacts will eventually lead to problems with…

  • Digital Storage at Home: Why should anyone care?

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    Over the past five years, my storage needs have grown at a faster rate in comparison to all other technological needs (computers, gaming, consoles, phones, laptops, etc.). At first, I didn’t realize just how large applications and games had become just to install. I didn’t even take in updates and patches for consideration to the…

  • New mini-series: Digital Storage at Home

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    So, I’m going to be writing up several articles all related to my adventures in home storage technology; namely Network Attached Storage (NAS). Over the past five years, I’ve been investing my time/energy and money into several different storage solutions so I’ll be sharing my experience over the coming weeks.

  • Seagate hard drive format capacity fix

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    ianpaullin
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    Recently, I’ve just built a nice little media server with loads of storage. Six Seagate Barracuda (7200.11 ST31500341AS) 1.5TB hard drives and one Western Digital Green (WD15EADS) 1.5TB drive as a hot spare. I’ll divulge more information on the media server another time. Unfortunately, one of the Seagate drives was only able to format 465GB,…