Gear
Computer Overloaded
Rare change this afternoon with me feverishly working on my Mac Pro getting a bunch of stuff done. Running a ton of apps and everything working hard. It’s clear I need more cores though. It’s all just busy.
Bricking my Linksys WTR-54GS
Sometimes I really should know better. There are some things you just don’t do, like updating firmware on something when you need it right away, or hacking the firmware on your travel router, when you are in the first part of a six week road trip!
I’ve had a Linksys WTR-54GS for a while now. I’ve [...]
Jumpnode Network Appliance
For the last few months I’ve had a Jumpnode appliance in my house keeping a tab on all of my computers, the network and other infrastructure. The Jumpnode is an appliance created by a Minneapolis startup that allows people to keep an eye on technology in remote offices, server performance or anything else that you [...]
eStarling Seeframe Live
I’ve considered getting a digital picture frame for a long time. They are great for people with thousands of digital photos. Get those photos off of your computer and into the living room! The problem? Historically these products were horrible. Some of them plainly just didn’t work. Some had screens that were pathetic. The few [...]
Get a Monopod and Improve Your Home Movies
Do you have a video camera? You need a monopod!
This Christmas I got the Bogen-Manfrotto Pro Black Monopod with Swivel Tilt Head. This item has been on my wish list for a long time and after having it for just a couple days I wish I would have pulled the trigger on it a long, [...]
Western Digital 1TB My Book
A long, long time ago I decided to do an experiment. I built a server with 1 terabyte in storage. I wanted to see if the average person could deploy a terabyte of storage. The answer to my question was a solid no. That was April 2004. It cost a little over $3,000 and was [...]
OLPC XO-1 Arrived
My One Laptop Per Child XO-1 arrived today! I haven’t had any time to work with it so you will all have to wait to hear my thoughts on it. Some things that jumped right out though include…
The keyboard was designed for children (duh!) and is really small. Wow!
So far I haven’t been able to [...]
iPhone Screen Broken
On Thursday of this week I experienced a disaster. I got a phone call and while taking my iPhone out of my pocket it slipped and I fumbled it ever so oddly, culminating in it hitting the plastic arm of the chair I was sitting in. I flipped it around and to my horror the [...]
Linksys WTR-54GS: Making Travel Better for Internet Junkies
I recently picked up a Linksys WTR-54GS travel router based on the positive recommendation of my friend Chris. He had gotten one before going on a big trip to make sure that he had WiFi in all the locations he wanted it and it worked really well.
I’ve considered getting something like this for a while, [...]
One Laptop Per Child, and Me
Technology has the promise of being the great equalizer, or a great divider. I don’t think enough is being done to make sure that the benefits that the “technological have’s” enjoy are available to all. I think this is going to be a big problem in the US particularly. In developing countries it’s even more [...]
