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Free Hyde from Isis

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

You may remember my entry about MacBook soft folding cases last month, in which I posted a video review of my new Isis Roach cover. Shortly afterward I got an email from Taylor Shupe of Isis, saying, I came across your video critique today and was super stoked that you took the time to do [...]

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Breaking Up (With Twitter) Is Hard To Do

Sunday, August 24, 2008

Last June I broke up with Twitter in a haze of tears and drama. I was tired of unreliability and whales and repeated “Something went wrong!” alert boxes and losing instant messages, and decided it was time to see other microblogging services.
Pownce was okay, despite past incidences of seething hatred for it. It had [...]

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Obama-Biden Text Message

Saturday, August 23, 2008

I got the text message announcing Obama’s choice of Biden for his running mate at 3:04 AM, and snapped a photo and posted it to Flickr within two minutes of receiving it. (Oh, and I got the whole “It’s 3AM” reference out of my system over at We Love DC.)
As far as I can [...]

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OS X Apps

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

OK, I think this should be my last post on Macs for a while. Here are the “must-have” applications I’ve downloaded for OS X on my MacBook so far:

Of course the requisite browsers, Firefox and Opera.
Adium for multi-protocol instant messaging, plus Skype, which I use only rarely
Textwrangler for code and text editing.
In the file transfer [...]

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MacBook Soft Folding Cases

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

The market for MacBook cases seems a lot more focused on sleeves which require you to slide out your MacBook to use it. (Theory: Bigger market for people who want to show off their MacBooks but keep them protected when not in use?) I had a tougher time finding decent folding cases which wrap around [...]

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Getting Cable While Losing the TV

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Through years of apartment living, we’ve watched relatively little television — just LOST, The Office, Battlestar Galactica, and the occasional Simpsons/Seinfeld rerun, really — so we’ve been satisfied to not have cable, sticking with just bunny ears, DVDs, and the internet; especially the internet. Services like Joost, Miro, Hulu, and various networks’ online episode [...]

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New MacBook: “Hidalgo”

Thursday, July 17, 2008

Update: I just realized that this entry is #4444 in my archives. Woo, yay.

Yup, I got a new MacBook.
First off, a semi-postmortem on my faithful old G3/700 iBook, “Vizzini,” which dropped from a loosely zipped backpack onto a hardwood floor on 29 Dec 2007 while we were at Tali Beach. It has actually continued [...]

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New Computer: “Flonkerton”

Friday, April 11, 2008

Late last December, my desktop PC “Fezzik” (the one of “Tiger Direct Sends Me the Wrong PC” fame) decided to very suddenly die — the victim of a fused, overworked P4 processor giving up after just two years of deficient service. I salvaged the box for parts, keeping the floppy drive, hard drive, DVD-ROM drive, [...]

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Flickr Video

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

First Flickr video, shot with the 6120c:

I got first wind of Flickr’s impending launch of video from TechCrunch’s Twitter stream and puppet show announcement (followed by more puppet buzz from Flickr themselves). Matt confirmed to me that he had indeed been in on the private beta, shortly before Flickr announced it officially.
When I first heard [...]

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Nokia 6120c Photos

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Here’s a bunch of photos from the 6120c to show the phone’s camera quality. I forgot to mention that the camera has a feature called “Panorama mode” — this lets you take one photo, shift the view, take another, and if they line up the camera app will stitch the two along an overlap, as [...]

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