Ultraportable laptops are precisely what the name implies — laptops that are lightweight and small. They are not to be confused with netbooks, however, as netbooks are designed for light use and generally have much less computing power.

Screen Size

Ultraportable laptops tend to get some traveling time logged in and it is important that a laptop screen can be viewed in direct sunlight, as well as in dim lighting conditions.

Video

As a general rule, ultraportable laptops that have integrated video graphics tend to deliver mid-range performance, as opposed to those laptops that have a dedicated video chip. Integrated…

Inkjet and laser printer is a bit of Lennon-McCartney . If Len Lauer has his way, a new band member is MemJet soon shake the printing industry. The one-time Sprint and Qualcomm Executive Managing Director of Mitsubishi, San Diego, the company behind the potentially “disruptive” technology. “Yesterday, the inkjet and laser was,” I told Lauer. “We want people to see [MemJet] as a new category of printing.”

MemJet’s match: printers that are fast and economical. The company says that can MemJet driven printers high resolution spit (1600×800 dpi) can do color prints at 60 pages per minute in comparison to…

Distractions

When you’re walking upon the casino’s floor to start your gambling session, holding your perspective is significant. All the miscellaneous things in casino kind of hypnotize a lot of gamblers. Casinos want it. So, you have to stay cool and keep an unclouded mind.

Walk around for five or ten minutes before you sit down to play. Survey in mind your purposes for this session while you perceive the gamblers and the games.

Selecting a table

This is a makeshift decision for gamblers in general. They are choosing the first table they approach, that has a free seat and…

Max is the author of Comp City, first published in 1994, with an expanded second edition published in 2002. In this groundbreaking book, Max exposed techniques even non-counting players could use to get an advantage over the casinos by exploiting weaknesses in the casinos’ comp systems. Max’s inside information came from his years of experience in the industry as a dealer, pit boss, and casino manager. Max still does consulting work for the Barona Casino in California.

The initial manuscript for Comp City included advanced comp-hustling techniques that could be used by professional card counters, but the editors at…

Tommy started playing blackjack professionally in 1978 while still in college. That was also the year he started his first informal “team.” He’s never looked back. For more than twenty-five years, he has been running the longest-lasting and most successful blackjack team in the history of the game. He and his teammates have played in casinos all over the U.S., Canada, and the world. He has used big player techniques, concealed computers (when they were legal), and had one of the most successful “ace location” teams ever. He has personally been barred, back-roomed, hand-cuffed, arrested, and even threatened with…

Keith is not well known to the general public, but among professional players he is revered as an electronics genius who has spent more than thirty years devising high-tech equipment-computers, video cameras, and communication devices-to beat the casinos. Blackjack was his initial target, and always remained his prime target. His first blackjack computer, which he completed in 1972, weighed fifteen pounds. Over the years, as computer chip technology developed, his computers became smaller, faster, and lighter. By the mid-1970s, he had a device that weighed only a few ounces that could play perfect strategy based on the exact cards…

Edward Oakley Thorp is widely regarded, by professional players as well as the general public, as the Father of Card Counting. It was in his book, Beat the Dealer, first published in 1962, that he presented his Ten-Count system, the first powerful winning blackjack system ever made available to the public. All card-counting systems in use today are variations of Thorp’s Ten-Count.

When Thorp’s book became a best seller, the Las Vegas casinos attempted to change the standard rules of blackjack, but their customers would not accept the changes and refused to play the new version of the game.…

Stanford Wong self-published his first book, Professional Blackjack, in 1975. It was later published by the Gambler’s Book Club in Las Vegas, then revised and expanded numerous times and published by Wong’s own company, Pi Yee Press.

Wong is widely regarded as one of the sharpest analysts of systems and methods for beating the casinos. In Professional Blackjack, he described a never-before-revealed table-hopping style of playing shoe games, a method of play now known as wonging. Professional Blackjack had a profound impact on serious players because it provided card counters with an easy yet powerful method for attacking the…

Lawrence Revere was both an author and a serious player. He died in 1977. His only book, Playing Blackjack as a Business, initially published in 1969, is still in print. If you look at the “true count” methods being employed pre-Revere, you will see why Revere was inducted into the hall of fame. The earlier methods were cumbersome and mentally fatiguing to use. In the second edition of Beat the Dealer, in which Thorp first proposed the Hi-Lo Count, he mentioned a simplified method of using the count, though he failed to develop it as a full system. Revere…

By TJ Michaels

The emergence of next generation video games consoles like the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 have also garnered increased popularity for a mechanism of acquiring extra gameplay features. Originally brought onto the scene in a more limited capacity by the original Xbox and Sega’s Dreamcast, downloadable content (DLC) is becoming implemented more and more to ensure that the gaming experience no longer ends after completing the missions placed on the original $50-60 disc. For many games, a plethora of extended material exists that gamers can receive through an Xbox Live subscription, PlayStation Network connection and even Nintendo’s…