Tech

This chart blows my mind. I’ve played video games most of my life so I’ve always known Nvidia as a gaming company. I remember buying my first expensive video card in the 90’s – a 3dfx Voodoo card and it cost around $200. I’ve owned a few Nvidia cards over the years and the last…

Two weeks ago I purchased a MacBook Pro to replace my aging Dell 600M that had been acting up. I was planning on waiting until the fall with Apple planning to release a new version of OS X but it was driving me crazy to not have a working laptop. So I thought I’d start…

A few weekends ago I mounted my Dell E228WFP 22″LCD monitor on the wall. My desk seems even more gargantuan than before and by keeping it at eye level I’m not hunched over it when studying or working. I feel like all that ergonomic stuff that I never cared for seems to actually be helpful!…

I’m posting twice today since I just ordered a new 22″ Dell monitor.  I’ve been waiting for it to dip below $300 like it had a few weeks ago and that happened again this afternoon. I really liked my 18″ NEC monitor that I had all through college but after 6 years this new monitor costs…

I’ll never forget the faithful day in 2002 that I lost my portable CD player in college (with Chris’s Manplanet album inside) and bought my first iPod. I love the iPod. My favorite thing about listening to it all day is when it gets on a random shuffle of good songs I haven’t heard for…

Not that the world needs more commentary on this but I am so excited for the Apple iPhone. I used to read a Tom Clancy book series called “Net Force” when I was younger – they ended up even making a pretty terrible movie out it. But in the series everyone uses the internet through…

Today is the faithful day I pull the plug on Blogger and move to WordPress. The recent Blogger update pretty much destroyed all my custom UI design I had done. And I couldn’t use any of the new Blogger features without their pre-built templates. So I started learning WordPress a couple months ago for fun.…

Last week I bought the Vbox Catseye OTA-150 HDTV tuner card for my media center. For $65 it is one of the best bang for the buck upgrades I’ve made to the media center. It solves the problem of not being able to record 2 shows at once and it has dramatically improved the picture…

I came home Friday to find Fedex had delivered the iPod BMW integration kit I ordered from Dension earlier in the week. I jumped on the iPod bandwagon back in college and used it pretty heavily while walking to class or while studying. I took almost a year ripping all my music onto the computer…

I might be a little slow to fully embrace the RSS revolution but that has changed drastically in the last 2 weeks. I had previously used RSS for creating the Now Like Photographs podcast, the Blogulution Reader, and in the Yahoo Widget News feed that sits on my work laptop to inform me of news…

I’ve seen a couple of stories about the new news feed Facebook rolled out this week and how creeped out some people are with it. I don’t think it’s that creepy. I was weirded out by posting to MySpace and to a lesser extent Facebook when I first started using them. It took a while…

As I was taking a hiatus from blogging I bought a copy of Adobe Premiere Elements and finished putting together the various video footage Dave shot the summer before we all left for college. Adobe Premiere was a great app and it ran fine on my older laptop. I’d highly recommend it along with Photoshop…

Last week I had Skypix, the satellite company that services my condo for DirecTV, out to install an HD box and finally get some substantial HD content to make the TV look pretty. The decision was between Time Warner or DirecTV but since the condo subsidizes part of the DirecTV packages through condo fees that…

AOL released their first developer SDK for their AIM service which will hopefully allow some cooler stuff to happen including interoperability between other chat services. Which reminds me…if you haven’t used or heard of Trillian, it’s amazing. It lets you sign in to AOL, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, and any other chat service you can think…

Last night I finished up the blogs new photo gallery. It is a big leap forward from the old way I was doings things in static HTML. It’s powered by PHP and a MySQL database brought together through a framework called zenphoto. I’m going through and uploading all of my digital pictures so there should…

Here Google goes again doing something really useful. Hats off for Google Pack which includes a bunch of great software, some from Google and some from others:

Thought I would write a post on what Firefox extensions I’ve found useful. If anyone has some other useful extensions I’d love to hear what you’re using.

I was a little nervous about installing this since all the reviews I’ve read said it’s bloated and will knock system performance. Having some faith in the company I work for (and a generous employee discount) I ordered a copy of Norton Internet Security Suite and Ghost. I was using the U of M corporate…

Read about this in Wired. I guess they make any accessory for an iPod now!

Apple announced the 5th generation of the iPod and it looks much cooler than the Nano. The big “one more thing” was that they are adding video support to the iPod and selling TV episodes for $1.99. iTunes 6 was also announced which is basically identical to iTunes 5 but supports the new video store.…