Monthly Archives: June 2006

How Do You Get Your News?

I had interesting experience yesterday. I was sitting in the break room of my work, reading the latest news on my cell phone, when I noticed something in front of me. It was the day’s local newspaper. Once I saw that, I felt pretty stupid. Here I was reading news from Google News Mobile on [...]

Selling Some Things…

With the upcoming purchase of a MacBook, I’m going to be selling a few things that will be replaced by the upcoming purchase. I’m going to be selling my Hackintosh, and my 60GB 4th Gen iPod Photo. With a real Mac I’ll no longer have a need for my test box, and the free iPod [...]

MacBook Options

For the past month, I’ve been drooling, along with many others, over Apple’s latest notebook, the MacBook. As of today, I finally have enough money to purchase a MacBook, however, I’m not going to rush and buy one today. I still need some time to think of my options for configuring the MacBook, and wait [...]

RFID: Cool Technology or the Mark of the Beast?

Even since I saw the latest edition of Systm, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about RFID, short for Radio Frequency Identifier. RFID is a technology where small radio transmitters can be used to store data. RFID tags are usually about the size of a grain of rice and can store anything from a [...]

Flip4Mac is Going Universal

Since the release of the new Intel Macs, Intel Mac users have not been able to watch WMVs, unless they ran Quicktime and their web browser of choice in Rosetta. Running in Rosetta dramatically slowed down the programs, and was very inconvenient to do just for WMV playback. So, Intel Mac users had a choice. [...]