Make your own SSD

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Quad-CF PCI Controller from Addonics — Brett mentioned this in his comment on my macbook air, what a cool little product, add an SSD to any PC. Read more..

Wireless-enchanced DS?

Thursday, January 31st, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Just ordered Amazon.com: Advance Wars: Days of Ruin: Video Games based on the NYTimes review today. Have to wonder — when will we see a DS with wireless integration ... Read more..

Got Drobo working

Thursday, January 24th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

A Little Ludwig Goes A Long Way: Not too happy with my Drobo — I did finally get a support call with Drobo and they got it working. I ... Read more..

MIDI drumpads and other stuff

Monday, January 21st, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Midi Madness — some wildly cool devices here that I would never use. Read more..

Power strips

Sunday, January 20th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

Why do all power strips have to be so ugly? I saw one in a downtown window that appeared to be a tower of cast stained concrete and it ... Read more..

Stuff I Want But Do Not Need — Gadgets

Sunday, January 20th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Pacemaker — handheld DJ system. Absolutely no use for but I admire it ATP Photofinder — tag all photos with geocodes easily. Cool. Toshiba Portege G — not even a ... Read more..

Gadget put options

Saturday, January 19th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

TechForward: Guaranteed Buybacks for Consumer Electronics — via Marginal Revolution. Ideal for someone like me who surfs the wave of the latest technology. Read more..

Stuff I want but don’t need — grabbag

Friday, January 18th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

The Gadgets Weblog: Wacom Bamboo Fun — I’ve always wanted a tablet. Painter’s Pyramid — actually seem highly useful 160Megapixel camera — on the road to gigapixel cameras Sandisk TakeTV. this keeps ... Read more..

Absolute Black TVs

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Pioneer’s Kuro Plasma Will Deliver Absolute Black — Contrast Ratio Is ‘Officially Irrelevant’ | Gadget Lab from Wired.com — I’d like this, I hate the grayish emissions from most of ... Read more..

Not too happy with my Drobo

Monday, January 14th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Data Robotics, Inc. | Knowledge Base — these things are getting fab reviews but my PC won’t boot with it attached — apparently there is some bios tweak i can do ... Read more..

Kindle hacking

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Reversing Everything: Hacking the Kindle part 3: root shell and runtime system — minesweeper! photo viewer! screencap! easter egg! all kinds of great stuff here. Read more..

Stuff I want but don’t need — musical instrument edition

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Q-Chord — looks like a blast Self-tuning guitar — I think I actually need a self-playing guitar Read more..

Christmas gift awesomeness

Thursday, December 27th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

The Kindle is awesome. The awesomeness is due to the wireless delivery of books. And the fact that I can browse Amazon at my PC and direct books ... Read more..

LG Viewty config

Sunday, December 23rd, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Probably crazy but we are trying to coerce an LG Viewty cellphone to work on ATTWireless — good tips here on how to get internet configured — Re: LG KU990 ... Read more..

Stuff I want but do not need — music edition

Thursday, September 27th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Headphone Guitar Amp For Quiet Shredding — these are very useful I wonder if I could run jam sessions through these Amazonmp3 beta of course. Read more..

Stuff I want but do not need — gear edition

Monday, September 24th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Fujifilm Professional Photography - Products - Cameras - Digital Cameras: Fujifilm IS Pro — UV and IR photography, awesome. Blaupunkt car stereo accepts flash media — this seems pretty cool. Infolink GE ... Read more..

Sony gets it right for me

Thursday, June 21st, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

My Sony - Reader broke, Brad Feld has documented my support experience. Thankfully Sony was responsive and finally got it right, I have a brand new reader now and ... Read more..

Grabbag of useful sites

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

BibMe - the fully automatic & free bibliography maker (MLA, APA & Chicago) — very cool Geni — i’m not really into family trees but this is actually kind of fun. ... Read more..

Hard disk failure

Friday, February 16th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Via Rahul at JB, All Things Distributed: On the Reliability of Hard Disks. Fascinating. A 6-10% failure rate for hard disks, wow. Another great argument for ... Read more..

Stuff I should have blogged a while ago

Tuesday, February 6th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

Need a new tiny PC for carrying around — OQO 2.0? One of the small Sonys? I don’t need a desktop replacement, just something small for classroom/cafe use. ... Read more..

I’m a sucker for cool watches

Saturday, January 20th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

And these astronomical themed pieces are pretty cool. I can’t imagine ever actually buying and wearing one of these but they are fun to look at. Read more..

I’m a sony reader convert

Monday, January 1st, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Like this guy — Sony Reader: Part 4 (of 4) ? Mike Cane’s Blog — you really have to use one for a couple of days to get it. ... Read more..

Christmas Gadget Report

Tuesday, December 26th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

20Q.net Inc. — exceeded expectations. cheap and fun. Wii — exceeded expectations. The controller makes even simple games way fun. We just need more good games now — ... Read more..

Gadgets I’d like to try

Tuesday, December 5th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

eHomeUpgrade | Keyspan Ships TuneView Remote for Apple iPod A bunch of audio gear Mouse with builtin card reader Cintiq Tablet Read more..

Hardware I Need To Get

Monday, May 15th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

With Skype’s recent announce of free outbound calling, I should try one of the cordless handsets available A Washington-based PC Mfr focused on silent PCs — endpcnoise Rich is getting me excited ... Read more..