Thomas De Maesschalck's blog » DV Hardware http://www.thomasdemaesschalck.com The life of an online entrepreneur Sat, 09 Oct 2010 21:32:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Been a while… http://www.thomasdemaesschalck.com/been-a-while/ http://www.thomasdemaesschalck.com/been-a-while/#comments Wed, 15 Sep 2010 21:08:43 +0000 Thomas De Maesschalck http://www.thomasdemaesschalck.com/?p=1012 Just looked at my blog and noticed my last post was in January. Guess I kinda lost the spirit to keep blogging and I don’t think I’ll pick it up anytime soon.

Business-wise things have been pretty rough this year and I’m hoping to find some new ways to boost my revenue so I can keep doing what I enjoy.

Currently, I’m working on a couple of reviews for DV Hardware. Soon I’ll have a review of a new product from Roccat and after that you can expect a review of BitFenix’s first case. I’m also planning to write a review of the latest Kindle, but this article is delayed because my device started malfunctioning. The first couple of days my Kindle crashed quite a lot and since one of these crashes the device is incapable of displaying anything except the navigation and plain text. PDF files and websites are no longer readable and book covers and other images are no longer fully rendered. Contacted Amazon’s customer services and after a couple of e-mails and a call they decided to send me a replacement. Hopefully it will arrive soon as the Kindle is an amazing device (as long as it works 100%).

]]> http://www.thomasdemaesschalck.com/been-a-while/feed/ 0 First Gamescom articles are up http://www.thomasdemaesschalck.com/first-gamescom-articles-are-up/ http://www.thomasdemaesschalck.com/first-gamescom-articles-are-up/#comments Sun, 23 Aug 2009 21:55:58 +0000 Thomas De Maesschalck http://www.thomasdemaesschalck.com/?p=984 I went to Cologne, Germany for a couple of days this week to visit Gamescom. This new trade show is the replacement for the Games Convention in Leipzig and it was immediately a big hit, Koelmesse announced today that the first edition of the five-days long fair received a total of 245,000 visitors, making it the biggest video game expo in the world.

Here’s some coverage of Gamescom I posted this weekend:

  • Gamescom boothbabes
  • DCMM 2009 casemods at Gamescom
  • A closeup of the 1099EUR ASUS MARS graphics card
  • And some hands-on photos of the Razer Naga

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    Coverage of Gamescom will be posted on DV Hardware once I’m back home.

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    It’s been a while since my last post blog post, didn’t really have much to say

    This week I booked a hotel room for GamesCom, this is a new games and entertainment show in Cologne, Germany. It’s somewhat the unofficial successor of the Games Convention event that took place in Leipzig the last couple of years.

    I don’t really know what to expect as it’s a new expo, but I hope it will be good. We’ll be staying in Cologne from August 19-21 to cover the event. Hopefully lots of exciting stuff will be announced at the show.

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