CD Sales Down, Vinyl Sales Up
Sales of vinyl albums are on the rise. Amazon seems to have a nice selection of vinyl. And cheap record players can be found, some for under under $50.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Archive for June, 2009
Random 80s Film Recommendation – The ‘Burbs
The ‘Burbs is an under-rated movie from 1989 with a large cast featuring Tom Hanks, Corey Feldman and Carrie Fischer. It’s a solid — if predictable — film with plenty of laughs and an interesting look at suburbia. Here’s Amazon’s take: Ray Peterson (Tom Hanks) would like nothing better than to spend a quiet week’s [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )ExtremeTech Takes A Swim In Dead Pool
Back in 2001 I found out Ziff-Davis was starting a new tech website called ExtremeTech, at the extremetech.com URL. I was more than a little interested, as I happened to own the sister domain name, extremetech.org — I assumed they would want to lock down any other versions of their name. I contacted Ziff-Davis via [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Corel Home Office – Lightweight But Lacking
Corel Home Office is a lightweight office suite ideal for netbooks and older PCs. The suite is responsive and has a modern feel, with a menu ribbon very similar to the one found in Office 2007. At $70, it’s more affordable than Microsoft Office, but not nearly as robust. On my newish dual core laptop [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )E-book Reader Deal
Newegg has the Ectaco jetBook e-book reader for $169.99 with free shipping. While DRM’d books are not supported, the jetBook does support an impressive variety of formats: .txt, .pdf, .fb2, Mobi, PRC, EPUB, RTF0. The screen is reflexive LCD, not e-paper, but battery life is still claimed to be 20 hours of constant use. The [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )A Tale Of Two Vampire Movies
io9 looks at two upcoming vampire flicks. Blood: The Last Vampire looks especially good, even if you’re not a manga or anime fan.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Ground Turkey Not Always Best Choice
Ground turkey not always healthier than ground beef. Read the label!
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )WordPress version 2.8 Now Available
Badooble has upgraded to WordPress version 2.8 – this is a test post to make sure everything still works. WP 2.8 contains improvements to themes, widgets, taxonomies, and overall speed. Over 790 bugs were fixed, as well.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )iPhone Giveaway – tweet with #Squarespace hashtag
Squarespace is giving away 30 iPhones in 30 days to Twitter users tweeting with a #Squarespace hashtag (like I just did). As always, follow Badooble on Twitter @badooble
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )You can’t hide from gravity
A bad review for ABC’s upcoming disaster flick, Impact: I won’t give away any major plot points, but basically a huge meteor comes flying toward Earth and crashes into the moon, and the side effects are felt for many days afterward — many long, mind-numbingly boring days. Yes, there are a few random action sequences, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Cost Effective Solar Panels
Popular Mechanics asks: Is the Cost-Effective DIY Solar Panel Within Reach?
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Dear Diary
My daughter enjoyed the Vampire Diaries books, and is very excited about this show: I admit, it looks pretty cool.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Kid Discovers Mini Supernova
A 14 year old astronomer discovered a new kind of supernova last year: In November 2008, Caroline Moore, a 14-year-old student from upstate New York, discovered a supernova in a nearby galaxy, making her the youngest person ever to do so. Additional observations determined that the object, called SN 2008ha, is a new type of [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Your Tax Dollars At Work
After ten years and 2.5 billion dollars, an initiative by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine to test the effectiveness of alternative treatments has come up empty handed: In an interview last year, shortly after becoming the federal center’s new director, Dr. Josephine Briggs said it had a strong research record, and praised [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Microsoft To Offer Free Anti-Virus Software
Microsoft Corp will soon unveil a free anti-virus service for personal computers, reports Reuters. This sounds like bad news for Symantec and McAfee, but very good news for consumers. Operating systems should offer basic built-in protection from malicious software. According to Microsoft, thier new ‘Morro’ anti-virus program will be available by the end of the [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Windows 7 Gets Badoobled
I just installed Windows 7 on my daughter’s troublesome laptop. It went smoothly enough, although I had to use an old utility boot disc to format the primary partition – for some reason the Windows 7 disk wouldn’t let me format or delete the partition. There were a few driver issues, as well. The on-board [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Back To The Futurama
Very good news: Six years after being canceled by Fox knuckleheads, Futurama is returning to tv on Comedy Central. The cable network has ordered 26 new episodes to begin airing next year.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Hackers Take Out 100,000 Websites
The Register reports: “data for as many as 100,000 websites was destroyed by attackers who targeted a zero-day vulnerability in a widely-used virtualization application.” The hackers targeted a zero-day vulnerability in HyperVM, server virtualization software. UPDATE: The boss of Indian software firm LxLabs, the maker of HyperVM, has apparently committed suicide.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Woot Netbok Deal
Woot is selling the Asus EEE 900a today for $169.99 + $5 shipping. That’s the same netbook I have, and a very good price. The 4G SSD makes it almost unusable with the default Linux distro, but other leaner Linux distributions are better (Eeebuntu is my personal favorite). And yes, Windows XP can be installed [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )The Rest Of The World Loves Terminator
Terminator Salvation had a disappointing domestic opening, but it’s doing much better internationally. I haven’t seen it yet, but I’m sure I’ll like it — my standards are pretty low when it comes to big budget sci-fi. Just give me lots of eye-candy and plenty of explosions.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Palm Pre Hits – And Misses
The Palm Pre seems to be a hit, even if there are also problems being reported. As a Palm owner and fanboy going back to the last century, I’m glad to see them pull this one off. Hopefully, the reported problems with screens, etc., will be addressed quickly. As I’ve said before, Palm should own [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )15 Inch Dell Laptop – $299
Dell is selling the Inspiron 15n laptop for $299 (plus shipping and sales tax). Specs include 2GB of shared ram, a DVD burner, 160GB hard drive, Celeron processor and Ubuntu Linux. If you’re not excited by Ubuntu, you could always install the Windows 7 Relesase Candidate (which will work until March of next year). An [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Twitter May Be Security Risk
“Twishing” (Twitter phishing) and other Twitter security issues. PC Magazine takes a look and offers advice.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Testing Video Encoding On My New Laptop
I just used the latest DVDFab to rip a DVD directly to an ‘.avi’ file on my new laptop. Both CPU cores were pegged at or near 100% for most of the process, but the backup only took about 26 minutes and I could still surf the internet. I used one of the generic XVID [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Windows 7 Release Date Official
CNET reports: Microsoft confirmed on Tuesday that it is planning for Windows 7 to hit retail shelves and start showing up on new PCs on October 22. Windows 7 will come in five different editions – Starter, Home Premium, Professional, Enterprise and Ultimate (plus a Basic edition for emerging markets). Home Premium will presumably take [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Psion, Intel Settle ‘Netbook’ Trademark Dispute
I was a big fan of ‘clamshell’ form factor PDAs like the Psion Netbook (and the IBM Workpad Z50 I owned) back in the day, and I personally hope Psion was paid handsomely for relinquishing their legitimate ‘netbook’ trademark. Engadget takes a more predictable position. With so many frivolous trademark and patent claims, there’s now [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Bing!
I’ve been Binging a little bit this morning, and I’m pretty impressed so far. The interface is clean and un-cluttered and the results are fast and seem at least as relevant as Google’s. I often rely on Google instead of bookmarks and remembered URLs – just type in what you want and the first link [...]
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