Current Gadgets:
Phone – AT&T Tilt wife has the iPhone 3G
MP3 Player – Microsoft 80gb Zune
Laptop – Lenovo Thinkpad X60
Camera – Canon Powershot 750
Polar Fitness F6 Heart Rate monitor – Time for a new one!
In the closet:
Phone – Palm Treo 750 Samsung Blackjack
MP3 Player – Creative Zen 20gb
Too many other goodies to list
Amazon started the wave but competitors like Sony and iRex are going to give Amazon a run for their money. Are the Kindle and Kindle DX great? Sure! Problem is you are locked into the Amazon store. Both Sony and iRex allow you to connect to your local library for “Free” books to check out and the massive Google Library. Sony partners with Border and iRex is going to partner with Barnes & Noble. Here’s a video about the new iRex reader which will be sold through Best Buy. $399 …
Well Annette has had the iPhone 3G for 6 months or so and I finally broke down and got one. So the iPhone is my new “Shiny Object” as Annette puts it. That means I will be spending way too much timing learning about it and all the cool things you can install, do, and hack. Yes, it is likely I will “jailbreak” my phone so I can get even more out of it. So look for lots of posts regarding the iPhone including what applications I have found most …
So far so good, let’s give it a whirl and see how it goes…chris might be sad he’s decided to share his blog!! We’ll have to see how much I actually blog about…
Well we are moving some of our Unix based sites to a new hosting provider. I will do my best to pass old domain names and folders to the right new places. Hopefully you will be able to still find this blog.
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Well I am always late to the party when it comes to social networking apps. Not that I don’t get them I just didn’t feel like participating. Well now I am using Twitter? Why well lots of companies use Twitter and since I am supposed to be a know it all technology consultant I decided I needed to use Twitter. So yay add another Twitter user to the mix. I have added a plug-in to WordPress which should update my Twitter account when I make new blog posts. Maybe that …
Ever have one of those days where you are trying to clean up your PC by uninstalling an application and it fails? Well that happens to me at least once per week. Let Revo Uninstaller come to your rescue. When the standard built-in Windows Uninstaller fails launch Revo and give it a try.
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This site is full of all kinds of gadget which enable you to connect your PC to your TV. I currently don’t have a Windows Media Center PC but some of this is looking pretty promising. I know lots of people have their cable hooked up to the PC so they can record video. What I am really looking for is a device which will play streaming video from the web to the PC. More On Demand type content. So check out http://www.ehomeupgrade.com/ for more details. I am looking at …
Not a very exciting post but certainly practical. I used to head to eBay to purchase cables and chargers for my various gadgets. Now I head to Monoprice.com first. Prices are very reasonable and they don’t gouge you on shipping. So check out Monoprice when you are looking to enhance your latest gadget.
Here’s what Monoprice says about themselves:
About Us
MonoPrice, Inc. is an importer & distributor-wholesaler of computer cables, audio/video cables, networking cables, accessories and connectivity products. Established in 2002, Monoprice, Inc. (DBA. MonoPrice.com) specializes in the wholesale distribution of …
I don’t use it enough but it does work well. Mobivox is one of the many new options for cheap or free long distance over the internet. The premise behind these services is that they use caller id to identify you. So if you call from your home or mobile phone the system recognizes you. It then uses a voice response system to dial. You call a local access number, say the name of the person you want to call and then the system will connect you. If both of …
Well ExpressJet branded is no more! I flew my last flight on September 1st. It was the final flight from Colorado Springs to Sacramento. Lots of people losing their jobs and I am getting shipped off to Cleveland. Flying for ExpressJet will never be the same.
Thanks for everyone who flew ExpressJet over the past 17 months. You helped us attempt to create a better airline. You can thank oil prices, Wall Street, and other items which I cannot mention for shutting ExpressJet down.
Watch a video about the last flight from …