

Today we are reviewing a 60GB SATA II Velox V20 Solid State Disk(SSD) from Silicon Power, a relatively unknown but upcoming brand in North America, but quite popular in Asia. Not that this matters a lot, but the Taiwan based company claims to be one of the world's leading manufacturers of flash memory cards, USB flash drives, card readers, DRAM modules, solid state disks, and portable hard drives and available in more than 100 countries across the world.
Before we proceed with the review, let us know more about the SSDs.
The Sunday Economic Times recently carried out a feature on web entrepreneurs in India with the headline "Google made me Rich".
Economic Times quotes me like this,
"There has to be a key differentiator to your blog, site or service you offer that will drive people onto your site," says Raju PP, a tech blogger who runs the site techpp.com (started in 2008). It started as a personal blog in 2005 and took on a life of its own as a consumer and personal tech blog in 2008.Read the full article [PDF1 &
Second Angry Birds post for the day and it's a complete co-incidence! This is a quick update to let you guys know that you can now download Angry Birds Rio game for Windows at absolutely no cost, courtesy, the Intel AppUp center.
Register with Intel AppUpSM Center by September 29, get a FREE copy of the Angry Birds Rio app—then help the birds help their friends from the film Rio. New registrants only.Angry Birds has been hugely popular and that too on multiple platforms. It is still the best selling game on Apple's iOS and one of the most downloaded games on Google's Android as well. Few months back, Rovio, the developer of Angry Birds announced that the game will be made available for Windows PC through Intel's AppUp center, a marketplace for Windows apps. But it was not available for free though. If you are a fan of Angry Birds and like to play the full version of Angry Birds Rio on your notebook or netbook, here is the best chance to grab it for free. All you need to do is, download and install Intel AppUp center from...
Microsoft released a developer preview of Windows 8 last night and surprisingly made it available for general public too. Though this brand new OS is half-baked and is meant to be used by developers to build apps for Windows 8, it's way too tempting for a non-developer to let go the opportunity to get the first taste of a hot & sexy OS.
Not to worry, we have a detailed yet simple guide to help you install and test-drive Windows 8 on your existing PC using a free to use virtualization software called VirtualBox. Though there are other VM (virtual machine) software like VMware Workstation and Virtual PC, I would advice you to go with VirtualBox as I have been getting reports of failed installations on VMware and Virtual PC, possible because Windows 8 requires IO APIC enabled to run on VMs, which is available only on VirtualBox.