So the last episode of Dragonball GT finally aired on the Cartoon Network last night. What an ending!
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Category Archives: GeekStuff
Halo 2: My Stats
Hah… pretty neat, what you can do with Flash – from Halo Impulse via Major Nelson.
Apple’s Latest Releases
I just realized that for all of the comments and emails and IM’s that I’ve had about the Mac mini and the iPod shuffle, I never got around to posting a blurb about it here. And in spite of all the conversations I’ve on about the latest round of hardware releases from Apple, I don’t have all that much to say about it, but what I do have to say doesn’t seem to be repeated by every Apple fan I hear from.
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First Look: Comcast DVR
I’ve used TiVo for over two years now. I was wasn’t an “early adopter” for TiVo – in all honesty I was skeptical of the recording purposed and didn’t think I’d need to ever freeze live TiVo. Live and learn: I don’t want to live without it, even if I can do it. Recently I moved up to a Tivo2 box and have been less than impressed with the results… somethings were better but other things were lacking to the point of my signing up for the Comcast DVR service – I just got the box today…
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Halo 2 Tip: Stop Dropping Out of Games
Here’s a typical game of Halo 2, if you blindly get matched into a “Big Team Battle”: You start to play a round. One of the two teams loses that first round. The “cry-baby” gamers from the losing team drop out of the game, leaving a team very shorthanded.
Why are people such dicks? Genetics, probably, but thankfully Bungie punishes those that have to live with a head in the shape of a penis tip:
Q: Does it count as a loss if I quit out of a ranked game early? A: Yes. You automatically get last place.
Don’t be a Deathmatch dick!
Wireless Power?
I have to charge a few things every night. Well, “have to”. I opt to charge things every night so that I never run out of power; most of my things can go days at a time without a fresh charge. And these “things” include my phone (AudioVox SMT5600), my iPod (Apple), my Bluetooth headset (Motorola HS820), and my notebook (IBM ThinkPad T41). Obviously each device has its own charger; not that big a deal in my home, but it’s an ugly mess when travelling. How nice would it be to have a “charging pad” that you could just drop devices on and have them charge? Very nice, and according to SplashPower, it should soon be very possible.
I remain skeptical – as any technologist should be of a product description that includes things like “any device that has [insert hardware/software solution here] in it” and “should be available in [insert year here]” – but it’s nice to dream.
Don’t Look at This
Ever pass an accident that’s on the side of the road and felt obligated to look? That you just have to take in an entire eye full of something gruesome, before you can turn away? You know you aren’t supposed to look, but you do anyway… it’s probably just human nature, right?
It happens on the web, too… but at least this made me chuckle first.
MSN Toolbar
I’m not sure when it became a must have killer app, but it seems that the press thinks it is – so do software companies, seeing as everyone is working on a searching product lately. As such, there is a beta of the new MSN Toolbar available and while a lot of people seem to like it, there is one universal complaint: why do I need this [insert descriptive vulgar term here] butterfly button on my Desktop bar?
You don’t – keep reading for a registry hack – found on Channel 9 – to remove all the buttons from your Desktop bar.
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Xbox Live Tip + Motorola HS820 Bluetooth Headset Review
Did you know that Xbox Live uses a 2.5mm headphone jack? The same jack that many cell phones use? I didn’t until recently, but it’s true. I even found a pretty good one to use -one that doesn’t have the boom arm. I originally bought it for my AudioVox SMT5600, but since it dropped a few calls – the biggest reason for getting rid of the Motorola MPx200 in the first place – I decided to chuck it all for a Bluetooth headset, which freed up the extra hands-free kit…
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Outages Are Coming…
“Ah, my droogs… Appy-polly-loggies. I had something of a pain in my gulliver so I had to sleep. I was not awakened when I gave orders for awakening.”
I think it’s time to change blog engines… No more MovableType? Sort of. SharpMT fans will be happy to know that I’m planning on moving over to TypePad. From my point of view, it’s a ready made MT installation that works without me having to worry about it. The downside is that there will be outages for a little while…
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Rest in Pieces
For the last twenty years or so, Comdex has been held during the third week of November. Ordinarily I’d be pining for a reason or scrambling for a ticket to get to the conference. It is, after all, Comdex! That’s about a Geek as apple pie is American. Except that this year, there’s no Comdex being held. They say they are taking a year off: they cite competition from CTIA and CES and a general slow down in the technology field… either way, I reckon the big question is can there be an AdultDex without a Comdex?
Either way, may Comdex rest in pieces.
Halo 2: Noon Madness
I picked up the game about thirteen hours ago, but the fall out is still in full swing. Redmond police were called in for crowd control at the Company Store and I’m currently sitting in a cafeteria surrounded by 250+ like minded Geeks that are still in full swoon…
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GTA: San Andreas
Ya know, it wasn’t until tonight that I realized that I never finished GTA:VC (Vice City). I know I forgot about it for almost eight months at one point (the saved game had a time stamp) after I discovered Halo and I sorta left the game on a shelf… In spite of that, it’s because of GTA3 that I got a PlayStation2 (just like Halo was why I got an Xbox), so it should come as no surprise that I was out at Fred Meyer at 7am today, asking about GTA:SA… first impression is “Um, why do people have a ten on their hats?”
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Bleh, Says the Phone Shopper
Bleh. I’ll say it again: Bleh! I spent the majority of the morning shuffling between Best Buy and AT&T Wireless stores, checking out the latest models of Windows Mobile based phone and I came home empty handed. How could that have happened you ask? Technology hates me!
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Update: How To Disable Windows Messenger
A while ago I posted a few registry hacks that would prevent Windows Messenger from running. I opt to run MSN IM since it has more consumer related features, and other people don’t want to run it at all, yet for a few reasons, most people can’t seem to turn it off entirely! Well, I was over at BigBlueBall the other day and found a new tool – I figure it’s simply a UI that manages the registry keys – which is similar to what I do with SharpKeys – and since I got a lot of feedback on the original post, I thought I’d share the wealth! The article on it is here