Category: Gadgets
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Building your own DVR, Part I
In my last blog, I brought you up to date on the hell that is dealing with Time Warner Cable for service. In the comments, my pal Sean was surprised that I didn’t just dump the Time Warner DVR and buy my own. I don’t think I’d buy a dedicate DVR myself (like one from…
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Next in World Domination for Google
Maps. Props to Sean for passing on the info that Google’s Maps application is now in beta. I goofed around with it a little bit, and it seems to work pretty well. The most impressive stuff to me was very fast updates on zoom and the ability to pan directly using the mouse. Here’s a…
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Cool FireFox Hint of the Day
Did you know that you can add search types to the FireFox search gadget? I never noticed the add engines item at the bottom of the search list. There are a ton of other handy searches available. I added amazon.com, cddb.org and m-w.org to my list. Very Handy!
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Whoa, that’s a biggin’!
I was in CompUsa the other day and spotted a new 30″ Apple Cinema Display. Running at a staggering 2560×1600 resolution, it seems to provide acres of desktop real estate. Man, I would love to have one. But, at $3,000 I don’t see it ever happening. Hmm, $3,000 is more than all of the PC…
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Pogo Sticks go High Tech!
Saw the Flybar Model 1200 on amazon.com; the pogo stick, evolved. So what’s so special about this $299 toy? Thrusters! Activate all 12 of the independent rubber thrusters and you’re capable of rebounding with 1200 pounds of force! They claim its enough to get a 170 pound person 5 feet off the ground. That’s pretty…
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A Quiet PC for DVR
Hush Technologies specializes in fanless PC designs for noise conscious applications like living room PVRs. Their latest effort looks pretty sweet. Unfortunately, at about $2500, I’ll be sticking to my plan of building my own open source based PVR on an old Dell box using MythTV.
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Now that’s Extreme PC Modding…
Check this out, some one using a radiator from a Toyota Corolla in his liquid CPU cooler rig: http://www.winbeta.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=6594 Nice!
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Sweet, new Ipods available!
The latest Ipod innovations include ratcheting up the drive space (tops out at 60Gb) and adding a color screen for displaying photos. Check ’em out: http://www.apple.com/ipodphoto/ The photos idea is kinda neat, but is overkill for my needs. I’m getting along just fine with my blue Ipod mini.
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Plug: Password Safe
If you’re like me, you’ve got about a zillion passwords to keep track of. Password Safe is a decent free password manager. Basically, its specialized database for keeping track of your password info in a secure manner (they are stored encrypted) I’ve been using it myself for a couple of years now, but didn’t realize…
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hey, that doesn’t suck!
my keyboard on my pc at home outlived its usefulness (a number of stuck keys, driving me nuts) so I decided it was time for a new one. I found this one for a steal of a deal at amazon: Microsoft Natural Multimedia Keyboard I like the ms ‘natural’ keyboards and the price is right.…