If you need a basic MP3 player that doesn’t cost much, the Coby 4GB MP3 Player might fit the bill. Amazon has it for $28.72 with free shipping. My wife’s Sansa E220 has a cracked screen, and my daughter needs a cheap MP3 player to tide her over – I may order a couple of [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Headmaster: There are absolutely no vampires at our creepy old New England school – really! From Boston’s WCVB TV: The headmaster of one of the city’s most prestigious exam schools is dealing with an unusual rumor sweeping student classrooms. There are no vampires at Boston Latin School, says headmaster Lynne Moone Teta. Seriously. Students at [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Microsoft’s new “Lauren” ad (embedded below) seems to be getting a pretty good reception across the web – except among die-hard Mac users, of course. I like it – Lauren is adorable and the ad makes a valid point about the cost of Apple computers. I think this spot is at least as effective as [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Peek’s upgraded email device, the Peek Pronto Mobile Messaging Device, offers push email and unlimited sms texting for $19.95 a month. The Pronto features a large, 2.5-inch full-color screen with QVGA (320 x 240) resolution that is easy to read. The device also offers an option to increase the font size for more clarity. If [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Martin Cizmar claims to have found ten Emo songs that don’t suck, and dug up YouTube videos for 9 of them. There’s no video for The Anniversary’s D in Detroit, but you can get a taste of this great track on Last FM. On the other hand: “Get me some nachos or I’ll cut myself.”
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )The MakerShed is selling the 8-bit TV-computer — a hackable Famicon compatible computer powered by an 8-bit 6502 processor (the same processor used in Apple II and Commodore computers). This thing would be a lot of fun to play with, and is just $50. Hopefully, a thriving homebrew community will spring up around this new [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Chuck Norris doesn’t sue people, he… oh wait, he does sue people.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )iPhone OS 3.0 first impressions and photos
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )For dinner tonight, traditional Irish (-American) corned beef and cabbage, and a mug of Guinness Draught. So good… Slow cookers make corned beef easy. I just bought a pre-cured corned beef brisket from the supermarket (very cheap this time of year), rinsed it and slow cooked it on low all day with a little fresh [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )If you’re interested in an over-hyped, over-priced aluminum unibody laptop not made by Apple, today’s your lucky day. The Dell Adamo has been revealed. It’s probably not the best market climate for a new “luxury brand notebook design for the luxury conscious consumer,” but it’s a nice bit of kit. The official site still looks [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Seattle’s oldest newspaper, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer will publish its final print edition today. The company plans to maintain an online-only presence with seattlepi.com, making it the largest paper to go 100% digital so far. Meanwhile, staffers of the recently shuttered Rocky Mountain News are trying to get a subscription-supported web news site, InDenverTimes.com off the [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )POP3 access is now available to Hotmail users worldwide.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )WeFollow is a new user powered Twitter directory by Kevin Rose of Digg fame. It’s a potentially useful site if you want to get a feel for which Twitter users others are following.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )lifehacker posted about a program called Calibre that organizes your ebook library on your pc. It sounds interesting, and I want to give it a try, but my ebooks are in many different formats. Mostly, Microsoft’s .Lit format (unprotected), although I’m slowly converting them to FB2 using ABC Amber Lit converter. Maybe I’ll give Calibre [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Music Artist Cloud is a great way to find music artists similar to ones you like. Enter Coldplay, and the site recommends: Aqualung Arctic Monkeys Athlete Blur Death Cab for Cutie Editors Embrace Franz Ferdinand James Blunt Kaiser Chiefs Keane Manic Street Preachers Muse Oasis OneRepublic Placebo R.E.M. Radiohead Razorlight Richard Ashcroft Robbie Williams Snow [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )I just installed a WordPress plugin that updates Twitter with the post title each time I add a new post on Badooble.com. This post is sort of a test. Follow Badooble on twitter here.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )I wasn’t all that blown away by apples tiny new 4gb iPod Shuffle. Then, I found out it fits perfectly into a Pez dispenser. Now I kinda want one.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Playlist Creator 3.5 lets you create standard m3u and pls playlists by dragging and dropping music files and folders onto the program’s content window. You can certainly create playlists from within whatever media player you use, but for me it’s easier to find the albums and songs I want in Windows Explorer rather than from [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )My MP3 collection spans over a decade of tracks that were ripped, bought, ‘borrowed’ from friends and, well…you know. That’s probably a lot like your collection. And a lot of my older files have weak or nonexistent ID3 tags, which is the important metadata you mp3 player uses to identify and organize your music. I’ve [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )We’ve known for a while that one of the real bottlenecks to PC performance has been hard drive technology. The fastest hard drives have trouble keeping up with the rest of a top end PC’s components. Samsung proved this by chaining together 24 of their 256GB SSD drives into a single RAID device. You have [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )The new Dell Mini 10 can be had with decent specs for just $299. Includes Windows XP, 10 inch screen, 160gb hard drive, and an Intel Atom Processor Z520. Not bad. Available for preorder with a preliminary ship date of 4/10/2009 with free 2nd business day shipping. The Z520 chip is a cooler and more [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )The new Kindle app for the iPhone is a hit. I would like for this to be available for the G1 — now please. Thank you. Related (sort of): Barnes and Noble has acquired ebook retailer Fictionwise, including the Fictionwise.com and eReader.com websites. An interesting development. I would settle for the Fictionwise eReader app for [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Running Windows XP Pro under Ubuntu with Sun VirtualBox on an Asus Eee Atom netbook. The XP image was on an external hard drive, and performance was less than optimal. Fun experiment, though.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )In case you were wondering what a giant statue of Tweety Bird made from canned goods would look like (and who hasn’t):
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Warning – Random Eighties Post! I’d have to give it more thought before declaring this my top ten list of eighties movies, but here are ten great popcorn flicks off the top of my head: Footloose The Terminator War Games Raiders of the Lost Ark Top Gun The Lost Boys Ferris Bueller’s Day Off The [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )A new version of online word processor Zoho Writer has been unveiled, now featuring attractive drop-down tabs as menu items. The new look is reminiscent of MS Office 2007′s ‘ribbon’. For anyone who wants to work in the cloud, Zoho Writer is a good choice. It has some features missing in Google Docs, and can [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )On my laptop I have a folder called “My Work” where I keep a lot of important (to me) documents, many of which are works in progress. I want to be able to edit these documents on my netbook or my laptop without the hassle of manually keeping track of versions and such. In other [...]
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Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )One of my favorite computer magazine from the old days, Computer Shopper, will cease print publication after the April issue. I loved this magazine back in the eighties and nineties, when it was bigger than a phone book and printed on cheap newspaper stock. All the full page ads featuring the latest computers and peripherals [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )I bought a Seagate FreeAgent Go 250 GB External Hard Drive a few weeks ago. I’ve loaded it up with music, movies, photos and other important files. It mounts just fine under Linux or Windows, and uses a single USB 2.0 port for data and power. The drive enclosure is stylish and about as small [...]
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