Archive March 2007
Podcasts on TVs and Tablet PCs – MP3s
The first MP3 was recorded by Ponzi with Jeff Ubois of Archival.tv – you can listen to it now. With all of this video being recorded, where is it being stored? Great questions. The second MP3 was taken from a phone call between HP and ourselves, specifically in relation to our experiences with the borrowed [...]
Pirillo’s Picks for 03/31/2007
I send my picks to 140,000 subscribers every day – join them by sending an email to picks@lockergnome.com. If you blog and encourage others to subscribe to the list, your site will be placed in the queue to be featured in an upcoming Pirillo’s Picks! [EMAIL] Export Thunderbird Contacts To Evolution In Linux (tags: export, [...]
HP Pavilion tx1000 Entertainment Notebook PC
It’s not very often that hardware manufacturers send us hardware to review (largely because we don’t ask for it). Since AMD is a reigning sponsor for our programming, they connected us with someone over at HP to lend us a tx1000 – which we’ll have to send back in a few weeks. Still, this was [...]
Jeff Ubois is Archiving TV for the Future
Ponzi just so happened to have our recording equipment with her when she attended a party held by our friend, Dave Winer. One other guest happened to be none other than Jeff Ubois – who is working to archive every single broadcast, past and present, for our own future: Television remains the most powerful medium [...]
New Barenaked Ladies Videos
There are naked ladies in my bathroom! Ha! Get your mind out of the gutter. I’m talking specifically about one of my favorite bands, Barenaked Ladies – although they’re not really in my bathroom. Still, they’re in someone’s bathroom – and they’ve recorded a handful of hits (forevermore known as ‘The Bathroom Sessions’). What’s your [...]
Wireless Power
Is it just me, or is this invention a game changer? It may sound futuristic, but Powercast’s platform uses nothing more complex than a radio–and is cheap enough for just about any company to incorporate into a product. A transmitter plugs into the wall, and a dime-size receiver (the real innovation, costing about $5 to [...]
How not to use a Gun
What’s wrong with people!? I have absolutely no problem with sane adults having the right to bear arms (legally), but there’s something beyond disturbing about this video. Is this some sort of bizarre militia indoctrination? The child’s brain hasn’t even developed to the point where critical thinking is possible! No, no, NO – this is [...]
I’m in a JibJab Cartoon!!!
From What We Call the News… There was a time not long ago when each and every day at six o’clock each evening you knew news was on its way from anchors of integrity… It’s all downhill from there. Then along came cable and the ratings race ensued Great legends found themselves replaced with… It [...]
Pirillo’s Picks for 03/27/2007
I send my picks to 140,000 subscribers every day – join them by sending an email to picks@lockergnome.com. If you blog and encourage others to subscribe to the list, your site will be placed in the queue to be featured in an upcoming Pirillo’s Picks! [PRANK] Make crank phone calls anonymously (tags: phone, funny, Fun, [...]
OpenOffice vs. Microsoft Office
This afternoon, Ponzi asked me to install Office on one of our laptops so that we could use Excel and Word on it. Easy enough to do, right? All I had to do was find the CD, right? Well, I couldn’t find it – and I’m pretty certain all of my Office activations have been [...]
TENSION BREAKER!
Had to be done. Then again…? Nah, it definitely had to be done. Well, I’m not sure…? Nah, I’m sure we need a tension breaker tonight. Why are you talking to yourself? Am I hearing voices again?
I had Death Threats in High School
Okay, so the blogosphere is going apeshit today over Kathy Sierra’s situation – which has to do with anonymous hate and abuse: I’ve been getting death threat comments on this blog. But that’s not what pushed me over the edge. What finally did it was some disturbing threats of violence and sex posted on two [...]
Please, port Beryl to Windows or OS X?
You know, there are very few things in Linux that have ever made me jealous… but this quote from the Beryl project made me jump out of my chair: Beryl is a combined window manager and composite manager written in C using OpenGL to provide acceleration. It is designed to be highly flexible, extensible, and [...]
[VIDEO] Noise Cancellation Tech from Microsoft
I had the opportunity to attend Microsoft TechFest the other day – placing me smack dab in the middle of a researcher’s zeitgeist. One of the more interesting conversations I had was with Jasha Droppo – you have to see it to hear it to believe it. If you’ve ever dealt with background noise in [...]
[VIDEO] How to Check for a Battery Recall
Check to see if your laptop battery has been recalled: HP Battery Recall Lenovo Support & downloads – Battery recall Apple Battery Exchange Program Dell Battery Return Program Sony eSupport – Electronics Toshiba Battery Exchange Program Gateway Exchange Program And if you’d rather to show your friends what they need to do, watch the video [...]
