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The Spotify Effect.

I signed up for a free Spotify account before it required Facebook login. I found out that I had been postponing music purchases if I could listen to them on Spotify.

How would Spotify help the artists?

Well, when my free Spotify account is 6-month-old, I would have to abide by the limitation.

After 6 months, you’ll be limited to 10 hours of streaming a month and a 5-play limit for any individual track. Unless, of course, you’ve subscribed by then!

I was going to buy Megadeth – Th1rt3en but I couldn’t find it at local store. Since I found out the album is available on Spotify, I have postponed the purchase.

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Yet another problem with a hard drive.

One of the office computers was having problems throughout the week. I decided to take it home and troubleshoot it for the weekend. I found out there are some problems with the hard drive. The first thing I do is running Spinrite in recovery mode.

The good news is that Spinrite is able to recover data from the bad sector. The bad news is that the process is going to take longer than I expected.

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Bad Capacitors on Motherboard.

I was working on a computer earlier today and found some bad capacitors on the motherboard. Bulging capacitors indicate problems. This motherboard is a goner.

Will add the picture later.

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Sunday Night at The Office.

I was at the office Sunday Night and found out my colleague had the Darth Mauls on top of the office partition.

Picture is coming up.

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The $499 Question: HP TouchPad

HP TouchPad is now available for pre-order through Amazon and HP.

I have been wanting to get a new webOS device and HP TouchPad could be the next one I’d get. Having used iOS and Android on other tablet computing devices I crave for more. Yes there are the Samsung Galaxy Tab, Apple iPad 2, Motorola Xoom and some other tablets. I like webOS in the original Palm Pre and am waiting for Pre 3.

I am asking myself if I should pre-order the HP TouchPad.

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MCE OptiBay for Unibody MacBook Pro

I got a call yesterday from a friend asking me if I could install MCE OptiBay on his 2011 15-inch MacBook Pro. I have worked on a lot of Unibody MacBook Pro but never actually installed an OptiBay on one. I figure that it would be similar to Optical Drive replacements on any Unibody MacBook Pro.

The OptiBay was overnighted from MCE headquarter in Brea, California and arrive on Friday Afternoon. I started taking the MacBook Pro bottom plate off and removing the Optical Drive. The installation was pretty easy, in less than 15 minutes, I had the OptiBay installed.

The OptiBay comes with a USB enclosure for the Optical Drive. The plastic enclosure comes with a few screws and a pretty narrow SATA to USB adapter board. The build quality is not that great but it does the job. The USB enclosure comes with two USB cables, one is for data and the other one is for power.

Pictures coming soon.

Other World Computing also sells something similar and it is called Data Doubler. It costs less but it doesn’t come with the USB enclosure for the Optical Drive.

More details later.