I heart my iPhone. I really do. Despite the problems with calls (which has gotten WAY better since the 2.1 firmware upgrade), it genuinely is the best phone I’ve ever had. It’s fast, it doesn’t crash on me, and it’s contact and call management is nothing short of suburb. Three way calling? No sweat. Putting a call on hold? Easy as cake. And syncing with my address book is, for the first time, ACCURATE. No more praying and hoping I have the fields lined up the right way (I’m looking at you, old Blackberry 7250….yeah…)
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The Impulsive Buy is a hilarious website where a guy reviews products with the sort of random absurdities that you’d find on [adult swim] on a regular basis. For a hilarious read, you should go back to his review of New Kids on the Block’s Summertime.
His latest review covers Twin Lotus Herbal Toothpaste, a Thai herbal toothpaste that looks like just about the grossest thing I’ve ever seen. You can read the full review here, but he also includes the following actual ad for the stuff: Continue reading ‘Twin Lotus Toothpaste: Now Racistier!’
While it’d be a stretch to call me a “gamer”, I do genuinely enjoy both playing video games and, frankly, watching people play RPG games (the idea of developing the skills to actually play one myself seems like it would have about the learning curve of teaching me to operate a UPS truck, which would be less entertaining but more profitable). But I do love keeping up with all the news and sometimes ridiculous review of video game sites.
This weekend, we had the big move in our house: two roommates moving out, three moving in. As a part of this, my roommate Jordan had to clear out his bedroom, including the multiple cups of change that have been accumulating over the last five years. That’s right, five years.
After an attempt to take it to the Commerce Bank up the street (which we then discovered wasn’t actually…ya know…open…yet…), we took it over the Harris Teeter, which has one of those Coinstar machines. Normally, I’d never recommend this: 8% fee to get the money I already have? Seriously?
BUT: They now have a new feature! If you turn in the cash as a gift card for things like Amazon.com, iTunes, or Starbucks, they waive the fee. Epic. Continue reading ‘Coinage! The Coinage!!!’
So, CNN has this article on how Obama is calling people whom he didn’t select to be VP. OK, fine, whatever, not a bad article. Until you get about three-fourths of the way down, and they start talking about how Hillary might still be a dark-horse candidate for the VP slot. Nothing wrong with that, until this:
Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader said Clinton is the smart choice because she is the only person who would help Obama get more votes.
Continue reading ‘Obama notifies candidates on shortlist - CNN.com’
Low-tech TV recording secrets of ‘The Daily Show’ | Crave, the gadget blog - CNET.
This somewhat HILARIOUS article from CNET describes how “The Daily Show” gets their footage for each show from various news outlets and entertainment programs: 15 rack-mounted Tivos, many of whom are the old school ones that go wayyyyyyyy back before the fancy stuff you can get now. One classic quote from the article:
…because there’s a limited number of remote codes, when a staffer operates one, he has to hold the remote directly against that box’s IR receiver so that the beam doesn’t hit any of the other boxes (i.e., so he’s not inadvertently controlling multiple boxes at once).
Seriously guys? Wow.
Then to actually use the footage, they dub it onto Beta and carry it by hand to the editing room. That’s old school Sneakernet action. Nice.
Answer: Moderately.
Veronica Belmont posted this photo on her Flickr account of her and Felicia Day, commenting on how people think they look alike. One commenter posted “My Geek Dreamgirls!”
And I couldn’t resisit: Continue reading ‘How much do I suck at Photoshop?’
CNET’s Crave Blog has an article about Wireless USB, a technology that’ll eventually allow you to plug things like hard drives, digital cameras, and other USB devices into a hub and use them wirelessly. It’s a neat technology, sure: I’d love to be able to access my hard drives while my laptop is anywhere in the house, but I can do that over the wireless network now…
…what I CAN’T do now is something demonstrated in the article: wireless external monitor. The article shows a large external screen being used with a MacBook Air as a secondary monitor. SUH-WEET!
One of the things I’ve disliked about my MacBook Pro was that, despite how portible it generally is, every time I sit down at my desk, I find myself plugging in a million things. USB for the iPhone and keyboard, FireWire for my backup drives, Ethernet for a faster connection than WiFi (when you’re uploading high res photos, it really does make a difference), and a big clunky pain-in-the-ass DVI port for my external monitor. Make a couple of those wireless for me and you’ve got a happy Jagalicious. 
