Archive for April, 2007

ROFLCOPTER at large

Monday, April 23rd, 2007

Scott sent me this link to a movie of the ROFL Copter. It is amazing what they can do with ASCII nowadays.
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New USB to Cardbus Adapter now with 3G Support!

Wednesday, April 18th, 2007

Been lagging behind because your USB to PCMCIA adapter only supports 2G wireless networks? This new card from ELAN supports the latest high speed protocols, ensuring that you get a quick connection wherever you are.
The card is model # SW-7851 and its full specs and compatibility can be found at the link below. [...]

Long Firewire 4 pin Cables

Tuesday, April 17th, 2007

Firewire has a cable limit of 15′ without a repeater. If you are coming from a powered 6 pin firewire port, (like those on desktop computers) repeater cables like our SW-1101 are a simple and inexpensive solution.
If you have a 4 pin port on your computer, (or an un-powered 6 pin port) then the [...]

PVC-Free Video Cables

Friday, April 13th, 2007

We have a whole line of Environmentally friendly video cables and the question often comes up about what makes the difference.
Environmentally friendly cables use a PVC replacement called “Termoplastic Polyester Elastomer” or TPE. TPE has two big advantages. First, it’s biodegradable. If you just through the cable away the normally corrosive PVC found in other [...]

Hearing Aide Batteries 312, 675

Thursday, April 12th, 2007

When we were at CES last year we came into contact with some battery suppliers that offered really low prices for high-quality stuff. Thanks to this that we are able to offer Hearing Aide Batteries of two sizes.
The most popular being the Blue Batteries and the Brown Batteries which represent both the A675 and A312 [...]

PC Perspective VTBook Review

Sunday, April 8th, 2007

Just checking around at my favorite review sites over the weekend, when I stumbled upon a review of the VTBook at PC Perspective. For any consumer looking to add an additional DVI port to their laptop this is a great solution. Please take note however that this is only for the PCMCIA slot [...]

Reaching out of the Wireless Cloud

Thursday, April 5th, 2007

In many homes, wireless Internet connectivity is a blessing. There are no wires, no mess, and you can resonably avoid the “web” of wires that occures when many different colored Ethernet patch cables are all bundled up together connecting to routers, computers, printers, and other networked devices.
However, the wonderful cloud of wireless technology only spreads [...]

USB to PCMCIA Cardbus adapter connection information

Wednesday, April 4th, 2007

A lot of people spend time looking for the connection information for their service provider so that they can connect with a manual windows connection to their wireless internet. This is information that is needed when using the USB to 32 bit PCMCIA Cardbus adapters. (It also applies for the USB to 16 bit [...]

Newegg Tech Support vs. Sewell Tech Support

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007

When our tech support guys get calls, it’s usually a specific question about some function of a product that they recently purchased from Sewell Direct. However, every now and again, we get a repeat question from someone who hasn’t used Sewell Direct in a while, but just has a general technology question. Our guys are [...]