Tech

After months of research I bought a new TV! It’s a Mitsubishi WD-52725 and I got it on Sunday at Mangolia (aka Best Buy). I just happened to be shopping around when I saw this TV in the store since they normally don’t carry Mitsubishi TV’s at Best Buy. They only had 2 left and…

This is very entertaining. I’m apparently not as popular as a lot of my friends. You can type in two AIM screen names to compare your popularity scores. Check it out here.

Ah, the joys of the internet. If you hate the crazy frog ring tone there is a very great flash game for you here.

I started visiting a bunch of international newspaper websites after reading a list of the top 10 most read newspapers across the world. I was surprised that only two are from America! Plus I was getting sick of some of the other news sites I read. The Financial Times is apparently the most read paper…

This is incredible. A former Air Force engineer up in Alaska built a working mech that he can pilot. There’s videos on YouTube of him taking a step with it. The prototype is listed on eBay now too: eBay item 5593908816 – Neogentronyx Mech by (Carlos Owens)

Read about this on Engadget today. Apparently only 10-15% of medical records are digital and there are 50 different systems that don’t talk to each other. So the government is proposing a common standard in the next 10 years. This really should happen.

Read about this on Engadget. Jeez, everyone is trying to sell digital music. Yahoo just announced something and now Target is going to try too? None of these are going to do well. They don’t have the iPod and iTunes platform like Apple does.

Read about this Gigapxl Project on Engadget. It’s a camera with 88,000 x 44,000 pixels! The image files are 24GB uncompressed. You should start selling these cameras Paal. Kris would be the first to buy one from you.

Read a very cool article on Engadget this morning about Pam Ludford, who is a Ph.D. candidate in computer science at the University of Minnesota. She has developed a location-sensitive to-do list app for GPS-enabled cellphones as her thesis project. The app is called Place Mail and it can send a reminder whenever you’re near…

I tried remote recording the new episode of “That 70’s Show” and it couldn’t connect. So alas I am off to night class without a TV show to watch when I get home.

I embrace what I’ve become… The network section describing all my geeky toys is now up. I also have registered iJFP.com as my permanent spot on the internet. You probably know that if you’re reading this though…

I finally picked up a TV tuner card for my Windows Media Center – a Haupaugge TV150. I’m really amazed at how well it works and for the first time I can honestly say that it feels like I own a Tivo. While I was at it, I dug around The Green Button and ran…

I didn’t get the music section done like I wanted to this weekend. Dreamweaver chokes when you work on 8,000 row tables apparently. I did however makes updates to the bookmarks tab (they have pretty graphic logos now). Unfortunately the speed is still terrible since it relies on an external site to render the news…

I decided it was time to upgrade my PDA after 4 good years of college use. I know a lot of people say the PDA is dead with smart phones, tablet PC’s, and all the other mobile gadgets out there. I never understood them. I have a cell phone that is smaller than any PDA…

I finished the photo section and created a movie section this week. The movie section has a complete listing of all the movies I own along with plot summaries. Hope it’s helpful if you ever want to borrow/watch something I have!

The Sfera Alarm Clock What a clever design! This colored ball hangs over your bed to help you wake up more easily.

I’ve decided to switch to blogger.com since there seems to be a lot more power in customization. I eventually want to embed this into a website which Live Journal makes you pay for. I’m a blogger man now.