Jim Makos Blog

Investing is a risky business. You never know what’s going to pop, what’s going to hold, and what’s going to bomb. But if we didn’t take a risk, we’d never get the big payoffs. Here are five crazy investment bets that some people took that really paid off… Big time. Microsoft – Two dudes in [...]

There are no two opinions to the fact that Wi-Fi technology has been a tremendous success globally. It boasts fast data transfers on the go making it an exceptional resource for laymen and businesses alike. However, a new player has recently entered the global technology arena and seems to have turned a lot of curious heads. ‘Super Wi-Fi’, [...]

Apple has become a frontrunner in both the smart-phone and tablet markets, thanks to the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 respectively. These gadgets were born out of a desire to innovate and expand the concept of what it is possible to achieve with portable devices. 2012 is set to see the arrival of both a [...]

It amazes when successful poker players post their computer setups, which are full of monitors of different display sizes along with a couple of laptops! If you are making money playing poker, invest some of the winnings to buy a proper multi monitor setup for God’s sake! Bragging about recent online poker tournament wins and [...]

I have been using my new Fujitsu T900 for 2 days now, surprised by the multi touch capabilities and the excellent computer power of this tablet laptop PC. Before buying the Fujitsu tablet, I researched about laptops online as my previous Fujitsu P7120 died a week ago. My main target laptop would be a tablet [...]

Following up my recent review of my new Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 mini pro, I recorded a video outdoors during the night. During the half minute video footage, I am watching live streaming video of the Mundobasket 2010 bronze medal game between Serbia and Lithuania on a 4-years old Fujitsu-Siemens P7120 laptop sitting at the [...]

The replacement of my old phone is a new Sony Ericsson Xperia phone, called X10 mini pro. It is an Xperia phone based on Google Android mobile software and although Bluetooth issues exist and no Outlook sync option is available, I’m quite satisfied by my smartphone mobile. It is fast, easy to use and best [...]

Since I started trading stock markets overseas, I faced the problem of trading on the move. Online trading is just a part of online investing though, since online betting and poker can be done outdoors as well. The past few weeks I keep searching for the best mobile solution, so that I can keep track [...]

I have used a dual monitor setup for 3 years before I setup a quad monitor arrangement on my desk. I am still using an Asus P5W Deluxe motherboard with an Intel E6600 Core 2 Duo CPU and 6 GB of RAM. Two hard disks, a Western Digital Raptor and a 500GB one, keep my [...]

I have finally received my new 24” Dell monitors this morning and have just finished installing my quad monitor setup! Everything seems to be working fine and the new monitors are in excellent condition. I liked the touch buttons on the right and the Preset Modes, currently Adobe RGB selected. Packaging was very good and [...]