Joe D

I have always had a passion for everything computing. In early 2000, I decided to take my passion to the web. Thus, C.O.D. was born. Through the years we have made many great friends at C.O.D. and hope to continue our journey for years to come.

BitFenix Colossus

If I have said it once, I have said it a thousand times... it takes a lot to impress me. Computer cases have made a wicked transformation over the years and there seems to be a few staples for me when it comes to my top picks. My main rig runs out of my Zalman Z-Machine GT1000 and my server makes its home inside the simple yet industrial Lian Li PC-75B (one of my all time favorite cases). As computer cases come and go here in the lab I hear the same song and dance; "This will be the best one you have reviewed yet" and for some reason a lot of them just fall short. BitFenix thinks they can break the current losing streak cases have had here with a design that is tough like Ray Lewis yet soft like Cinemax late night movies. Enter the Colossus.

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Android’s Best Feature is its Biggest Flaw

Everyone is paying attention to the Android buzz, especially Apple and RIM.  With the recent news about some of the offerings coming to the table featuring Google’s Android OS how can anyone ignore it?  Android’s biggest and best feature is that it is open and free to run on various platforms, including various phone manufacturers, tablets, and more.  Recently, a …

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StarTech InfoSAFE External Raid Enclosure

My data is extremely important to me; the irreplaceable memories, music, and movies that I keep on my home server are duplicated across multiple drives in a Windows Home Server. WHS provides me with some peace of mind by implementing a feature like folder duplication, however implementing only that type of protection is not enough. There are many solutions by many different companies out there to tackle my server backup that claim to be easy and are not, seem to be inexpensive but have hidden costs, or just don't offer enough storage space. Well, where the other solutions fail, StarTech shines. Enter the S354UFER.

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WordPress & Post Revisions

There are many things about WordPress that have a catch 22 effect on you; something that you love but drives you crazy at the same time.  One of these features happens to be the post revisions introduced in current version of the CMS.  Post revisions are an excellent concept and I have used it on more than one occasion, however, …

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Hard Drive Encryption

It seems that the world is going crazy; everyone wants everyone else’s information.  Some companies are going to great lengths to protect their data.  Laptops have gone missing or stolen with tons of important data on them, copy machines have latent images on the hard drives that can contain vital or important private information on them.  So what can be …

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