Budget Tech Reviews

Finally enough time to actually do reviews. There is now a tech review section of the site created specifically for budget tech. From imitation components, to budget makes and models.

See it’s as if 99% of review sites out there do the high dollar high interest  stuff. For some of us that means “dream stuff”. well this site has a whole section for the budget shopper.

you will most likely not see reviews of the 9800 video card, but you will see a review of the 9500,9400 and so on. If the best video card costs $400, you will see reviews of the $59 video card, tricks that the High end video cards barely use and how to make your budget card just as good as the $400 video card.

Inexpensive cell phones, old used cell phones found on Ebay and craigs list and so on. I call them “GEMS”. The ones that everyone owned a year ago and hacked and modified so much you could almost not tell it was the same one, The site will show you how.

Do not worry, the news section (this section) will still have tech news. All news here, all budget review and budget tricks will be found on

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Need More Tech Podcasts

After Leo Leaving the country and not recording the tech guy podcast, I realize how few tech podcasts are left out there.

Linux action show is computer action show now, that’s fine but heck there used to be a tech podcast network. that network kinda fell off the blip now.

anyone know some good tech podcasts ? please leave the link or rss feed in response to this thread.

Fake ipod From Ebay Compare

Maybe it’s safer to just say they are an MP3 players that to me look very similar to the ipod.

Purchased one for about ten dollar and it has 2 gigs storage. got it cheap because it’s pink. No one gives their daughter a fake ipod (i would because it really looks like linux). No one gives their son anything pink, so i grabbed it. If I cared, I would take it apart and paint the exterior.. Who knows, maybe a later post :-P. Took the MP3 player out of package and set it on the counter. Three days it sat there untouched. The comparison MP3 player came in , While opening the comparison MP3 player, I knocked the first one (the pink one) on the floor. blah blah blah, I stepped on screen area.

All seems to function well on both of them, so no harm no foul. I now have two mp3 players that I can plug into my VR3 car stereo I bought for $79 at walmart.

Here is a place for firmware and software knowledge base

The first one that came in has a phone book,mp3 player, mp4 player,Fm Radio, picture viewer

mp3 player I got on ebay for ten bucks

2g mp3 player I got on ebay for ten bucks

The fm Player, is nothing to brag about, Signal was rough, almost had to hold it on my head in a clear open area before I got single signal in a major U.s. city.

MP4 Player, The format isn’t exactly  an mp4 and not high quality at all, it’s like a really fast flipping gif.

Picture Viewer, yeah you guessed it, looks bad, really pixelated, so don’t let that sale you on the deal.

Phone book, exactly what you think it is, it is a phone book, you can add email address, home phone number and cell phone

Mp3 Player, 2 gigs is many hours of podcasts for me to listen to. The battery plays for exactly 6 hours 20 minutes. To play 6 hours of podcasts, i barely consume 100 megs of storage, leaving me 1.9 gigs of unused storage.

the usb connection plugs into my car stereo and the stereo sees it as a storage device, and charges the mp3 player at the same time. I have no idea how long it lasts, because I am usually where ever I am headed, within just a couple songs. Bad side is, it does not resume as you left off. Could be the stereo. Most likely is. Does it with the black one also.

512 megabyte mp3 player

512 megabyte mp3 player - 40 bucks

The black one is 512 megs and costs more than the pink one and is more squared, interface is exactly the same minus fm radio. less storage, and the ear connection busted within an hour of use and only plays out of one ear. Plugs into car stereo like the pink one, but battery dies unless I turn it off for a few minutes.Screen area is very very tiny. little more than half an inch looks great but very frustrating.

I have to give all  credit to the Pink one with round edges. sound is better, storage is greater price was cheaper (circumstantial though)
Display a tad larger, 1/16th of an inch larger, at best.

They will both make for good media storage devices to listen to in the car, that’s what I bought them for anyway. but the rounded edge one is the better quality . I have no model numbers on either one, sorry for the lack of info.

Hello world!

Tech Reviews on a budget. Reviewing new budget products, used products and faulty products to tell you  how it can be used to make it better or even used  toprove it’s full value, some stuff can be tweaked and that will be posted also.

Website reviews, download reviews of opensource products and free programs.

Windows 7, Tiny7

I have always liked the work of a person named eXPer1ence, with his tiny stripped versions of windows products. This guy makes Microsoft feel like Linux. Open source and all you know?.

I did a search just to see if he had done anything with Windows 7. Well he did. Google pushed out some very promising results. On the popular Torrent search site it showed eXPer1ence, modded programs and his name for user account that created and uploaded the torrent files to the search engine. So I knew it was genuine and not from some virus freak that renamed a bad file.

I decided i would test it in benchmarks against the current Windows 7 that i have installed, straight from Microsoft’s website. Legit cd key and all .. of course. I just wanted to see if a stray dude could create mod a well appreciated operating system into a fine video game running o/s. I broke out the extra Sata Hard drive and connected everything. and yes it was the exact same make as the current drive I was using.

I did the full entire install. I installed my need for speed carbon and most wanted, shift and undercover, grand theft auto iii Vice city, San Andreas and gtaiv. All installed fine and smooth. I tried to install DirectX 10. It said I already had an equivalent version installed. Ok that was cool. I started my benchmarking. I played all my need for speeds on both versions of windows seven, 64bit full install and 32 bit tiny7. Tiny played a tad bit smoother but I got artifacts on occasions, I moved on to my Grand Theft Auto games. III was so smooth and impressive I was sold to tiny7 in a flash, same for Vice City and San Andreas. I started to try GTAIV. No go. GTAIV would not play. The command prompt would open and then quickly disappear. So I started searching online. I see that the latest version of tiny7 says it will play Grand Theft Auto IV Listed here. I confirm that I have the version stated. The game would not play. So i double check my  directx version. It seems that some items of direct X would not install. I fully uninstalled Direct x 10 to see if I could solve the issue with a reinstall. Now direct X 10 would not install, at all.

I also got an issue with items on the desktop. If I tried to paste from or to the desktop, I would get an error saying that the desktop was not found. um… ermmm???  No version of Autodesk Or autocad would install. So it was useless for working on drafting. Would not sign into network and save settings. Some of my media editing tools would not work either. Like magix music maker and video editor. If magix does not work, then it’s useless to me.

For gaming, I have to say that Tiny7 is not a complete failure, but it did fail my trial. I have since uninstalled tiny7. I am really liking  windows 7 ultimate 64 bit. Maybe next time eXPer1ence until then , I think i will go up the street and purchase 7, the proper way… It is worth it.

Net Neutrality = Checkmate

What it all comes down to is how well you detect greed.

One company owns like 30% of internet connection in the united states. That company is Comcast. The rest of the connections are through the hundreds of  dsl and the hundred or so other cable companies. This means that Comcast has the largest percentage, and the loudest voice. What they will do, all the others will soon follow suite. The companies that do not, will be bought quickly.

Comcast is wanting “unlimited” to end. They have been hyping some story of  growing usage and lack of pipe to supply it all. Um, they did buy up all the other companies, of course the user count is growing. dur.. but so is their supply and resources. So do not be fooled by this.

Anyway we will be offered packages, instead of the packages we get now where we can select how fast our connection is, by how much we pay. We will now select how much we want to download in a month, by how much we are willing to pay. They push some theory that the internet will suddenly speed up because people will conserve better to avoid the prices. I see a huge spike at the beginning of the month of people saying ” oh hey I can down X amount now and just surf regular for the rest of the month”. Of course we will not see the internet get slow during these times because well, they have the horse power to support that, again they are blowing smoke to sell their  product.

You may be wondering how they can get fake news out. right?…… cable tv, …. you get it yet ? Well in short, I am pretty sure they know someone who knows someone.

If they are allowed to charge site owners for the traffic that comes there from them, then they are now making from the people getting there, and the people that are there. That’s like ford charging Disney land for the people using Ford to get there. THE CAR IS FRICKEN PAID FOR!. This of course will lead to alot of websites shutting down because they can no longer afford to be on the internet. So lil Davey’s website about his favorite bicycle will have to go down because he can no longer afford to pay for the traffic that the internet sends to him. There is a chance that internet providers will blacklist websites and block people from trafficking the websites. If you notice, we are now being covered by comcast ,(if we are getting our service through comcast) if we type a domain name wrong, it takes us to a comcast specific page instead of the 404 page. This is a clear sign that those days are coming. This means an almost extortion mentality could come of this (old gangster’s voice)  ” look see, this what we want for sending people to your website see, or we stop people all together see”  When actually in all truth, if all the websites vanish from the internet, what the heck do we need internet for ? Looks like the whole internet freedom, is screeching to a hault in this case.

So if it is ruled against the carriers from charging the site owners, count on your internet being priced to come out of your pocket in a $50 a month for a limited amount of file size per month. chances are, they will do that anyway. charge the domain owners, and the customers.

Comcast is already testing this in a few cities across the united states.

Selling 5 Domains

I have a year to renew my domains, but ready to let the mess of them all go. It’s far to much work for just me.

I worked really hard on getting all  feeds  ranked in Technoratti. Infact this particular rss feed is  worth “$1,693.62.”

Considering I have barely writen anything here in the past few months, that is pretty good. For the most part people come here for the Linux info I give in one of my directories, and the occasional coverage ion Grand Theft Auto. (I actually show how to play grand theft auto on Linux. You should Google it and see what you find. I did my work and it’s real info. So people link to me on their sites. I try to not be a spammer. So Google does all the work I need for getting the content noticed.

I wanted to make an ” I work with” network. Meaning I wanted to cover many job fields in content topics, and give people of that field a place to relate with. I wanted them all to be able to talk to each other and trade tips or just rant or sell or trade stuff related. I had no plan to charge anyone for going there and using any of the services. So I never did.

The “I work with” network consisted of

iworkwithpeople.com an employment site that I wanted to help people in retail. Could be used for many things, from therapy to psychiatry to loan agent.  It is currently an employment site.

iworkwithtech Wanted to make a site to sample products with and tell everyone about the products. after the products have run their course in my  reviews, I was going to overclock them. Never had the time, so I slapped something together to fill the spot and maybe  bring me work.

iworkwithmusic.com The goal was to let people submit their music content there and let the world hear it and or buy it. Totally free to the users of the site, except of course the media content they buy from the bands or dj.

Next on the list of sites for sell is not in eth same plan as the iworkwith network.

but still a fun site for me to run, during the times I had a mess-load of users. After the site rebuild I lost a lot of regular users. Down to like 18 people max. That site is  gtaclans.com a community for grand theft auto player. That one was fun, real fun.

Next is TruXtertech.com. The news section was three years of steady fun. at times I had stuff just flowing, at other times, I had a life to chase.

The asking prices are as follows.

iworkwithpeople.com $15000 Check the value for yourself Here

iworkwithtech.com $2000       Check the value for yourself Here

iworkwithmusic.com $500      Check the value for yourself Here

gtaclans.com $2000                     Check the value for yourself Here

truxtertech.com make Offer      Check the value for yourself Here Don’t worry, I will accept a reasonable offer.

I used stimator.com Because they do not base their searches on pure alexa results. If you Google Alexa you will understand. I know for years, malware scanners removed Alexa software off of people’s computers. So it really can’t be reliable if it’s only means is watching activity, and everyone is removing them.

check these websites statistics

Please contact me at (truxter     @    truxter    .    org) {no Spaces}

Paypal welcome,  and of course I will hand over the release code once the money is transferred. Sorry I will not give out bank routing number, but you can use my paypal account to use your credit card. If you do not have a paypal account, I suggest you set one up.

The prices are negotiable. But don’t be rude. I have a short temper for low ballers and hustlers. If needed I will gladly sign up to the sites and write for you in my free time. That is of course if you use the same plan I was working on. I will help you with search engines targeting.

New Myspace Mobsters Coalition

http://hatefilledsoul.com a myspace mobsters Group that is looking for recruits that can train and are willing to be trained some. Everyone must take information as well as give information. Hatefilledsoul is one of three huge mobs in one huge coalition of people who always have each other’s back.  Join the site, leave your link in the forum and stop in the chatroom and talk to the godfather.

You will be trained on the best method of attacking, what mobster weapons are best for attack and for defense.  You will get a list of weapons per each level of experience. You will be shown how to gain  mobster money faster. You will be taught how to pick people off the hitlist and get your kill count higher.

I spent the past three days working on a website for one mob clan in the largest Myspace Mobster Coalition in existence. The site was a hard start. They had so many people telling me what they want while I was working on teh site. I was like “SHUT THE $^%&$%^ UP!” . Their idea where great but I had to get the backbone started so they could see what they had to work with. Some wanted javascripting some wanted Flash, some wanted some weird html tricks that are a little out of my experience.

at the peak of the flood of people hitting the page while I worked on it, the MYSQL data base folded inward on me. Left me sitting there looking at a 404 web page for 6 hours getting screamed at. it’s understandable, they paid for my work. So of course I just shut my computer off and turned off my phone at 3AM and slept until noon. As I woke up, the server was cooled and ready. I rebuilt everything and boosted the capacity of everything.

In the end the chatrooms are now capable of 300 max users in every single chatroom at one time (even though I set visible cap at 200 :P) . Main site can upload at 2mbs, up to 15 tb a month. I think I did well on the lay out.

Myspace Mobsters Cheaters Use Bots

I have come to dislike that site and game. Far to many people using cheaters and bots. To many people selling accounts.

i couldn’t figgure how someone would want to buy my level 360 makes 600m an hour. It’s just a game. but i have tons of little accounts that make great money. The amount someone would offer would never account for the time i spent on the accounts.

Back o  topic. I forever have been fighting a group of people with my small account, decided to take out the big guns and go after the entire group myself, since my buds wouldn’t help. These are the non=raacist members of Zero degrees. Zero Degrees is a well known racist greoup on mobbies. But I decided to hitlist one of them and attack them with all I have … 5 accounts Steadily attacking this dude on the hitlist. one account has 75 stamina and beat hi with every attack.. used entire stamina… So I start going through all of my players.  Next had 60 stamina, next two 30+ stamina each, clearly a heal bot. So I open two browsers and two accounts. by then, my big account has recharged. Finally took him down. There is no way he healled  that much for that long.. after the thirty second mark,  the hitlist is rabid. Let alone 15 minutes…

Check out these cheaters.

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All in the same mob.

Is There Life on Other Planets?

We are the life on other planets.

What does that mean. Well you have to think in theory. There really is not much to base this theory on other than it’s something else that can not be dismissed and proved wrong, except by another theory.

Our solar system has  what is seen as 8 planets. Two of these planets are ” just gas” . I have to say … prove it. Go there and bring me proof. Otherwise you are just standing outside looking in, and all you are saying is just theory. No matter how great your certainty in a hypothesis, it is still just a theory. To dismiss another theory because you have convinced yourself of another is just plain ignorance. how long did man think the earth was flat ?

With that said let’s move on to the topic, and use the theory that Jupiter and Saturn are gas.

I may have heard this elsewhere, I am not sure but ……

Let’s say man did not originate here on Earth. Let’s say that every 6000 years the Sun gobbles up a planet, and every planet in the solar system is actually drifting inward toward the sun, instead of drifting away from the sun. Let’s suggest that there are two gas planets and one planet that is mostly gas that is evolving into another planet much similar to the earth.

Just in a pondering moment, what is the likelihood that we as humans jump ship every 5ooo-7000 years? What this would mean, is no there never was life on mars, but there will be. We will be on mars. As the earth gets closer to being gobbled up by the sun, we jump on a rocket  and get our stinky butts to some place new.

Question of that would be ” why did they not leave this message for us as they dropped us off here??”  We can consider that during the time we got dropped off here and where getting comfortable, the previous planet Venus was still alive and thriving, but near it’s point of breaking. Due to the greenhouse effect on Venus and high temperatures lack of oxygen mass presence of Carbon, and nasty smoggy looking atmosphere, I bet I know why that planet died early.  We got dropped here and left stupid, because the elder ones ( lol yeah I said that) that dropped us here did not want us to do what they did, because it looks like it might be longer before we get a new planet than what they had for them. I bet that the planet’s existences and habitability periods overlapped, they checked in on us from time to time to make sure we found the right foods and that our weather was calm and nice enough in the locations they dropped us. Explains some of the Egyptian and Mayan Hieroglyphs. and how they got the same build designs so far apart, at roughly the same time and era.

In a few hundred years I bet we see strange activity from jupiter and see it compress what is it’s atmosphere and see it become closer to Mars’s atmosphere, revealing a newly formed planet, with a greater amount of water than what is on earth, just waiting for us to skip Mars and jump in. Right after that Mercury will dissapear into the sun and soon after that, a new planet will begin at the end of the line. Scary thing is, if Mars is a blooper and we have to skip it then we might not make the shift smooth enough to the next planet due to the fact that we are off by one planet.

This goofy theory would be hard to sell to NASA or any other space program to start a livable Mars project. To deeper explain that, If there is a bit of a time strain waiting for the Jupiter to form water, livable temperatures, Oxygen and trees and food and plants and animals, then the smart thing to do is start Oxygenating Mars. Scatter a mess load of seeds on  Mars. Get a fungus growing, get some grass growing, get this ball rolling. If it turns out this theory is wrong about the sun gobbeling planets up, well the end result is we have two freakin planets.