Microsoft made publicly available the first (only?) release candidate of Windows 7 this week, so I downloaded the image and then installed it at work on the same laptop I had put the beta on a few months ago. One interesting thing I noticed was the new login screen background, which has what appears to …
Who needs to buy a brand new TiVo HD XL to get 1TB of recording capacity? After adding the Western Digital eSATA 1TB MyDVR Expander to my Series3 my recording capacity jumped from 32 HD hours (303 SD hours) to 179 HD hours (or 1,561 SD hours) … 1.3 terrabytes! Just like the 500gb Expander …
I’ve been doing some (work-related) research lately about the Chumby. It’s basically a tiny Linux device with a touchscreen and wireless networking that runs Flash Lite stuffed inside a squishy beanbag (yeah, seriously!). Here are the current specs: 3.5″ LCD color touchscreen Two external USB 2.0 full-speed ports 350 MHz ARM processor 64 MB SDRAM …
The week before Easter we painted all of the central rooms in our house (kitchen, dining room, and family room) which had not been painted since we moved in about 8 years ago. In the family room, where the home theater setup is, we now have much lighter walls, so my old, blocky, and black …
I’ve imported all of the posts (about 50) from my old TechToys blog into this one, so any post older than my first one (on March 25, 2008) is from there, dating back to 1999! It’s fun to look back and see some of the old tech I’ve gone through over the past 10 years.
I was sad to hear (on TWiT episode #188, via Ars Technica), that the University of Virginia has decided to dismantle their student computer labs. Apparently there’s not much of a need for them now that just about every incoming freshman has a laptop. I have lots of fond memories of my college’s computer labs. …
On one of the forums I frequent there’s been a recent thread about the evolution of the graphical user interface. In that discussion someone posted this link to a GUI timeline that shows screenshots of many of the UIs that evolved over the years. It’s a really cool walk through GUI history and made me …
It may be a while (if ever) before I get a Palm Pre, especially since Sprint has it exclusively for 2009. However, I don’t have to wait for the webOS experience. TealPoint software has released TealOS, an amazing piece of programming that duplicates the look-and-feel of webOS on the current Palm handhelds. Here’s a screenshot …
So the original February 17th deadline for the digital TV switchover has come and gone but only a handful of stations have shut off their analog signals thanks to the DTV Delay Act. Is everyone confused yet? One thing I don’t think a lot of people here in hurricane country have thought of (even myself, …
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Not safe for work, but pretty frickin’ hilarious. Really sums up the current state of the consumer electronics industry, doesn’t it? 🙂