The Definitive Dracula
The kids are out doing their thing, so I’m settled in with a cigar, a scotch, and Bela Lugosi.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )Archive for October, 2007
Asus Eee Editor’s Choice
The Asus Eee mini-notebook gets 4 out of 5 stars and an editor’s choice award from Laptop Magazine. Read the exclusive first review.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )Music Recommendation — Rissi Palmer
Rissi Palmer is billed as Country/Pop, but she has a very traditional country sound (think Shania before she went all ‘pop’). Her self titled debut album dropped today, and it can be purchased as a DRM-free digital download for $8.99. It can also be purchased on some sort of circular plastic disk for [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )Xbox 360 Arcade Has Landed
The Xbox 360 Arcade is officially available today, at a price of $279.99:
REDMOND, Wash. — Oct. 22, 2007 — Just in time for holiday, Microsoft Corp. today released a new Xbox 360® console that delivers games and content to everyone in the family for an incredible value of $279.99 (U.S. estimated retail price)*. Available in [...]
Zune Me
I just bought a “rich brown” Zune 30gb from Woot!. I’m very excited to own one of the ugliest tech products of all time. Of course, the $79 price tag doesn’t hurt. Besides, brown is the new black.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )Ultimate DIY-er Makes Helicopter From Junk
This guy has too much free time:
Mubarak Muhammad Abdullahi, a 24-year-old physics undergraduate in northern Nigeria, takes old cars and motorbikes to pieces in the back yard at home and builds his own helicopters from the parts.
He’s actually managed to hover his first helicopter several times, and learned to fly from the internet and action [...]
Amazon One-Click Patent Shot Down By US Patent Office
One of the dumbest patents granted in recent history has got to be Amazon’s “One Click” ordering patent. Clicking on a buy button and, you know, buying something — it seems rather obvious. Now it looks like parts of the patent have been struck down. Unfortunately, not because it’s a stupid and [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )Apple Accepts Inevitable
Apple opens up iPhone to 3rd party developers:
Let me just say it: We want native third party applications on the iPhone, and we plan to have an SDK in developers’ hands in February. We are excited about creating a vibrant third party developer community around the iPhone and enabling hundreds of new applications for our [...]
Asus Eee Pricing Official
The least expensive Asus Eee — the one with just 2gb of storage and 256mb of RAM — will be $299. That’s a hundred dollars more than originally rumored a few months ago, but not bad…a good pda or smartphone will cost as much or more. Of course, if downward pricing pressure continues [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )Aliens On The Internet
I’ve been hearing good things about the new show Aliens In America, so I just watched the first two episodes on the CW web site. It’s a pretty good show, if somewhat familiar (friendship, popularity, teen angst, fish out of water, be yourself, yada yada). I’m more impressed with how willing networks [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )AT&T Soon To Suck Slightly Less
AT&T Wireless gets a little bit more customer-friendly:
Starting next month, customers who change a wireless calling plan will no longer be required to extend their current contact with AT&T or sign a new contract.
Customers who terminate a contact early will no longer have to pay a flat early termination fee. The fee will be lowered [...]
Asus eee Models Announced
The four Asus eee models that will soon be available have been announced. We even et specs, but no pricing as yet.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )Konrath Offers Up A Free Drink
I read and enjoyed J. A. Konrath’s debut novel, Whiskey Sour, a few years ago. If you like mystery/suspense novels, it’s a good read. For a limited time, you can download Whiskey Sour as a free PDF on the author’s site.
You can find more books by J. A. Konrath at Amazon
Daring and Dangerous Kids
The Daring Book For Girls is now available for pre-order. It will feature chapters dealing with spies, karate, tool kits, history, high-heel shoes, science projects, boys, secret note-passing and a lot more. I think it will be a big hit, and I definitely plan on picking up a copy for my daughter. [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )A Symphony Of Praise For IBM Office Suite
InfoWorld has a generally favorable look at IBM’s Lotus Symphony office suite. I’ve been trying it out as well, and I’m impressed with the feature set as well as the modern look-and-feel (sorry, OpenOffice.org). What I’m not impressed with is performance. At the moment, Symphony is a big slow hog. Hopefully, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )Yet Another Asus Eee Update
The Asus Eee will not be available to consumers for $199, according to this report, but it will be available by the end of the month:
Eee PC will officially hit the Taiwan market on October 16 with the initial batch of shipments no larger than 10,000 units, said Asustek. The company will begin offering the [...]
Microsoft Zune And Good Customer Service
Praise for Microsoft’s Zune … from an Apple fan site:
Apparently, Apple would rather lock you out of your iPhone and limit you to a walled garden of features. So you are being tempted to upgrade and gain new apps and other cool things, but it’s a ploy to tempt users who hacked their iPhones to [...]
Golden Compass Trailer
I have not read the The Golden Compass and sequels, but after seeing the trailer for the movie, I’ll be rectifying that in the near future. I’ve heard the books are great, and it looks like the movie will be amazing.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )Do That Vudu — Or Not
Katherine Boehre looks at the Vudu movie box. It looks like a cool product that could use more content. And given the cost — $399 plus up to $3.99 to rent a movie (or up to $19.99 to ‘buy’ a movie) — it’s hard to see much advantage over something like Netflix. [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )Ugly Tech
PC World looks at the ugliest products in tech history. No surprise: the brown Microsoft Zune makes the list.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )Cheap Wheels 2007
The ten least expensive 2007 cars. We have a 2006 Aveo (number one on the list), and are happy with it so far.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )Box Office Bonanza
A comprehensive list of movies coming out in the next few months.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )Music Sharer Not Asking For Help To Pay Obscene Judgement
As the RIAA continues to shift its business model from selling music to suing customers, it’s nice to know that the organization’s victims show a little more character:
Jammie Thomas makes $36,000 a year but says she’s not looking for a handout to pay a $222,000 judgment after a jury decided she illegally shared music online [...]
New iPaqs Landing Soon
The new HP PDAs are on the way:
If you’ll recall, both WiFi equipped, Windows Mobile 6 devices feature color TFT touchscreens, Marvell PXA310 624 Mhz processors, and Bluetooth 2.0. The devices will be shipping on October 8th, with the 110 selling for $299, and the 210 for $399.
I had actually forgotten about these, but [...]
Serenity Sequel A Long Shot
A Serenity sequel? Probably too much to hope for.
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