The Acer Guy

Ok guys, just a quick update on the Ady Gil, part of the Sea Shepherd’s arsenal against Illegal Whale Hunters and now home to a bunch of Acer computers.

I’ve been receiving daily updates from the captain of Ady Gil, Pete Bethune and thought you’d like to share them.

If this seems off-topic, well it isn’t. It’s a cause I support (through this blog), it’s a place where Acer computers are used to coordinate operations and report on progress, and more importantly it concerns something we as a global society should ask ourselves whether we’re prepared to ignore. These guys aren’t and have put their lives on the line to stop it and for that alone they’re damned heroes.

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567,861. That’s the number of Unique Visitors to this site in 2009 and I’d like to take this opportunity to thank every single last one of you for an amazing year. Let’s just say that without you, 2010 wouldn’t be shaping up to be the year I hope it’s going to be.

This time of year is great to look back and see how far you’ve come, the lessons you’ve learned and plan ahead for the year to come. I love Google Analytics as it gives a great picture of the statistics without touching too much on the relevance, which I’ll come to in a moment.

As this site is more about you than it is about me, I’m delighted to publish what is a particularly interesting overview of 2009. For all of you interested in a year-end round up of stats, here they are (from Jan 1 – Dec 22). Enjoy!!

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Don’t like glossy laptops you scratch or attach finger prints so easily? Need something mobile and light, yet having a big enough screen for web browsing? don’t have the budget of more then $500USD? Aspire 5534 sounds just about right!

Fortunately, I get to get my hands on one of these babies, I took my friend to shop for his first laptop, this is what we came across, $399.99CAD with AMD Turion 64btit, 3GB, ATi Mobility Radeon HD3200, 250GB HDD, pretty nice for the price I say! Thanks to David, my friend, we get tot take a peek at this product!

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The Acer 8 hour contest has just closed and the first phase winner chosen.

If you don’t remember what this is all about, it’s a “creative competition” to win more than $20,000 in fabulous prizes, including an Aspire Timeline, a stylish Lucian Piccard watch, a Microsoft XBOX 360, a Microsoft Zune, and $1,000 in cash…

The first phase winner is Tim Ackermans…

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This is the formal continuation of a thread I started over on the Facebook page.

The idea is to get the Reviews section off to a flying start with reviews of hardware, accessories and games. Right now, as many of you know, there’s a technical problem that’s preventing me from getting hardware over to (and back from) the US, where the majority of my reviewer volunteers are located. But the other two sections are outside this red tape so here’s what I had in mind to start off with.

1. First we form a list of reviewers (max 5 but I’m feeling a little generous right now).
2. We publish a wish-list of games you want to try.

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I’m going to go on record here by saying that the Acer Liquid is more than a valid alternative to the iPhone. It’s just as slick, has a better screen resolution, and if anything is slightly faster, but the killer is the Android Marketplace which lets you set it up just the way you want it, which means I’m still Tweeting and Shazamming but I’m also chatting on Gtalk and Skype while getting live updates on my friends’ Social Network sites. What’s more the Acer Liquid multi-tasks unlike the iPhone and some of the simple but oh-so-geeky apps available free of charge mean I have a much better chance of the battery lasting all day unlike it’s flashier rival. Rival? It costs between €150-€200 /$220-$300) more than the Acer Liquid…

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Well, well, the title explains itself, sure you want to get Bluetooth for your beloved Aspire One and not worrying it sticking out “injuring” the USB port while traveling, Or maybe you are just too scared to crack open $300 USD or more electronics. How does cracking open a cheap $10-20 Bluetooth and do a [...]

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