I’ve got a bunch of little USB flash drives hanging around. It is almost as if they rain from the sky. In fact, if you go to a trade show, they sometimes in fact do! I had a new requirement of a flash drive recently though. I wanted to actually run an application off of it. Up to …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Speed MattersYesterday we were at Best Buy on my occassional visit to wonder around the store and just check stuff out. Tammy finds these trips annoying since I rarely buy anything, and after 5 minutes decide to leave. Yesterday though I decided to check out the gaming aisles and stumbled on …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Nintendo DS LiteAmongst the celebratory gifts I got for father's day this year was a pretty surprising toy. I had been commenting to Tammy for a while about how cool I thought the new Apple MacBook was. She decided that it was inevitable that I was going to get one and surprised me on father's …
Keep reading · 3 minutes: MacBookMy home network has been pathetic for the last few months. While doing our solar project and other work in the utility room I had to make some quick cable moves. The unfortunate downside of this was that for over 3 months my gigabit network has been nada, since I’ve got a 100 …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Network RevampI got to try out my new Sony noise canceling headphones on my recent trip to New York. My impression is mixed, but overall I’m pleased with them. I haven’t tried other companies so I can’t comment on how they differ. Here are my key comments: Reviews will say that all noise …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Noise Canceling Headphones First ImpressionI stepped off of my last flight, from Dallas to Minneapolis, and wanted to immediately go and get a pair of noise canceling headphones. I made a rookie mistake. Hoping for an empty middle seat back in coach I had moved from a row in the middle of the plane to the last row in the …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Noise Canceling HeadphonesHappy Valentines day! My wonderful, beautiful wife and daughter decided to get me an iPod Nano for Valentine’s day. How fun! When the Nano was first released I convinced myself that I didn’t really care. Then a little after it was shipping I went to Best Buy and touched one. I …
Keep reading · 1 minute: iPod NanoI recently got my after-Christmas Christmas present. What’s that? Well, if I had something on my list and I didn’t happen to get it, I thought I should clean up that list. We don’t want to have things sitting on their forever now right?! A few weeks ago I decided I wanted to get …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Canon 12x36 IS II BinocularsI sent my Digital Photography Storage Explosion article to our editorial team at MarketWatch to see if they would be interested in an article version of it for our site. They said it looked interesting so I wrote up a much smaller version and it was published today. I got a …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Photo Storage Article PublishedThis past week I was in Radio Shack and saw they were running a great deal on the Linksys WRT54G wireless router (double rebates!). I’ve had a D-Link 624 for a long time and its worked without any issues. However, I’d read at length about the WRT54G and it’s open platform. …
Keep reading · 1 minute: The "Not-So-Open" WRT54G