About a month ago, I upgraded the graphics card in my PC to a BFGTech 8800GT. I’d been experiencing some glitches on my two year old Nvidia 7900, probably due to the Zalman cooler I added to it not providing the VRAM with enough heat transfer combined with not enough air circulation in the case. [...]
It is no secret that I am something of a technology slut. I like gadgets and gear, particularly stuff that relates to audio. I have a few iPods and I love listening to music on them. The experience is mediated by the quality of the headphones you plug into them and the quality of the [...]
I’ve been shopping around for an iPod dockable portable speaker system for awhile. Some friends have Altec Lansing boom-boxes that they are pretty happy with so I looked to see what they have available. For $150 I ordered the im600 from the Apple Store and after figuring out my new address, they had it here [...]
Electronista is claiming that there’ll be a Canadian iPhone in June with an all-you-can-eat data plan for $7. With RIM about to introduce a BlackBerry 9000 phone, users are going to have a decent set of options to choose from for hardware. Unfortunately, the BlackBerry plans aren’t exactly competitive compared with the iPhone’s supposed $7 [...]
I’ve been an occasional user of Wacom’s Intuos 2 graphics tablets for a few years. I’ve always liked the idea of the tablet if not willing to commit to it for constant use. Last week, while I was visiting the left coast, I stopped into Fry’s and saw a Wacom Intuos 3 6×8″ tablet in [...]
Remember when the Xbox 360 first came out? Remember how excited you were about the cool new interface? It looked so next-generation with all those panels whizzing around. I believe there were even a few people who said, “I can’t believe this is a Microsoft product it’s soo good”. Two years (and several replacements) later, [...]
I woke up feeling a little creative this morning and didn’t feel compelled to put together shelves or unpack boxes. So I dug out my Korg EA-1, plugged it into my midi box (which finally has Leopard-compatible drivers) and whipped-up this little bit of synth noise. Junk Drawer.mp3 (192kbps VBR MP3) or Junk Drawer.m4a (177kbps [...]
Now that I’ve had an iPod touch for a little over a week and gotten used to it and what it’s capable of, I have a few ideas about what I wish it could do. These are maybe obvious omissions to its capabilities which would really beef it up as a portable entertainment device. iTunes [...]
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