Futurama fans rejoice — a new full length movie, Bender’s Big Score, is now available on DVD. It’s a hilarious movie, pulling in many of the quirky characters featured in the original series. The only people who might not enjoy it is the FOX executives who cancelled the series — they get pretty [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )If that awesome Black Friday PC you bought is loaded with useless trial-ware and crap-ware, you can simplify the much-needed cleanup process with the free PC Decrapifier program. Manually uninstalling everything isn’t that hard, but this is certainly easier.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )The upcoming Windows XP SP3 provides a 10% speed boost over SP2, according to early benchmarks. This news makes a downgrade to Windows Vista even less attractive.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )How much does “phone home” DRM suck? A lot.
Major League Baseball seems to be backing down, and letting their DRM victims re-download purchased content. Even so, any DRM that requires contact with a remote server to “allow” playback of legally purchased content is just awful. Please don’t pay for this [...]
I bought a refurbished Sandisk Sansa e250 mp3 player from Buy.com for a very good price — just $39. When the package arrived, it contained a software CD, the player, and a set of headphones. The 3 items were loose in the shipping box — there was no product packaging at all, aside [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )The Amazon Kindle ebook reader is now available. The device is $399, which is $200 - $300 too much to ever be a huge success. A lot of the high cost likely went into the built-in and free wireless connectivity to the bookstore (via EVDO — the same technology some cell phones use). [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )Marvel Comics is taking their book business online, posting select comic books on their web site. The comics are only viewable in a web browser, and most will be behind a $5 per month subscription wall. For a limited time, 250 back issues will be available for free.
The service provides users with access [...]
The PDA is an inevitable casualty of convergence:
In the third quarter, IDC says that 728,000 PDA shipments were made globally. To put this in perspective, consider that Apple sold one million iPhones in only half a quarter, and RIM saw sales of more than three million BlackBerrys for the quarter ended September 1.
I still see [...]
Happy Diwali to all. Today is the festival of lights known as Diwali. The cultural importance of this holiday in India and among Hindus worldwide is similar to the western importance of Christmas. I’m down with any holiday that involves fireworks, sweets and gifts.
Follow the link for a kid’s [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )Buy.com has the Asus Eee for $399.99 with free shipping, with an in-stock status of “Usually Ships in 1 to 2 business days.” If you use Google Checkout for the first time, you get an extra $10 off.
Personally, I’d like to see the promised $299 version come to market.
My 13 year old son is asking for a Sony PSP Slim and Lite for Christmas. For just $169, it not only plays games but looks like it would make an awesome hi-res portable video player. In fact, he’s leaning towards the $199 PSP Daxter Entertainment Pack, which includes a Daxter game, a [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )$300 laptop coming from Everex.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )Today begins National Novel Writing Month — write a 50,000 word novel in one month. I participated in 2001 — it was a lot of fun.
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