The 21 in 1 card reader covered over at i4u shows what’s seriously wrong with the PC industry today. Here’s a list of the cards it supports as written by i4u. MS Slot: Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro, Memory Stick Duo Pro Duo, MS Rom CF Slot: CompactFlash Type I, CompactFlash Type II, Micro Drive [...]
Yet another library is following King County’s (the county Seattle is in) horrible path of distributing public domain works with private DRM and this time it’s the New York Public Library. Jon of Exhibit5a has written them a letter pointing out just how unfortunate this trend is. Furthermore, I notice that your collection of non-audio [...]
As part of urban apartment life, I often help out neighbors with various computer problems. Eventually, I’ll probably buy this “no, I won’t fix your computer” t-shirt, but until then it lets me make friends of neighbors in an old fashioned/new technology sort of way. Tonight, I helped out a Japanese student who found herself [...]
Your Hipster PDA can do a lot of things really well, but one thing it can’t do is tell you the time. Every other PDA in the world can do that, so why not your Hipster PDA? With just that thought in mind, I ordered a Tempo Time Tag from Vessel. For $18 US you [...]
Cringely seems to think that Intel and Apple will soon merge and he lays out a reasonable argument, but he lacks a very important word in his entire essay: notebooks. Yes, IBM makes a great processor with the G5, but it’s a processor that’s too hot for notebooks at this point. Cringely also believes that [...]
Anyone who has upgraded to Mac OS 10.4 Tiger and tried to install Tivo Desktop has quickly found that Tivo dropped the ball. It doesn’t install properly and simply doesn’t work. So, what do we do? Well, the current solution seems to be using Tivo Broadcaster 1.0. First, load Tivo Desktop. Then, download Tivo Broadbaster, [...]
Remember in my post about how classic Nintendo games would be free that I thought it was bad business decision? Well, evidently, they do too. Nintendo clarified today over at IGN that classic Nintendo games will not be free. From IGN: There’s some disappointing news for those expecting these classics to be available for free. [...]
As mac fanatics struggle with a lovely thing called cognitive dissonance, the question that springs to mind is what should you buy and when should you buy it? The answer is pretty simple. You should buy what you need, when you need it. If you still have equipment that does the job for you, then [...]
When Nintendo announced at E3 that the Nintendo Revolution would play the last 20 years of Nintendo games, I imagined we would be paying 10-15 dollars a game. It would be a boon to Nintendo’s bottom line and I would certainly be happy to pay a reasonable price to play the classics. Well, it would [...]
Update: Take action at 2045 Seattle to Save Your Seattle Monorail The Seattle Monorail Authority has completed negotiations! What does this mean? It means a plan to build and run Seattle’s first rapid transit line is officially done and both the public authority and the private company have agreed on the details. The lawyers are [...]
