A few weeks ago, I started to swim in the mp3 market for flash-based players looking for something small and simple as the Shuffle, but better than it. After much research, I decided that that player would be one of Sony’s new NW-E400 series walkman.

The first thing one of my friends said when I […]

Woot has the InFocus ScreenPlay 4805 DLP Projector up for $700 again today. Pretty decent price for a very nice home theater projector that can be hooked to your computer to play WoW at 120 inches. :-) Only up for today, after that the link will point to, well, whatever woot is selling that day. […]

Merrill Lynch Japan predicts Sony will lose more than $1 billion on hardware during its next-gen console’s first year on the market–a sum it may not be able to recoup.
According to the latest issue of Japanese magazine Toyo Keizai, Merrill Lynch Japan Securities has recently calculated an analysis that the production of a single PlayStation […]

Have you been wondering how to write a hello world program in Octave or Vatical or Snobol? On the very, very off chance that you have, you might find The Hello World Collection handy. The collection includes hello world programs in 181 languages from popular to obscure.

In an attempt to make computer animations and illustrations look more realistic, researchers at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology have developed Moxi. Moxi is a brush-and-ink style paint program that uses the model of pigment particles in water flowing onto paper. Basically, it shows the detail of paper absorbing water […]

I just got home from seeing War of the Worlds, and if you overlook some flaws, it’s a good flick.
The good:

The special effects were great. The CGI was excellent.
Acting was good, even if you hate Tom Cruise. The little girl from Taken (I’m too stupid to remember her name and too lazy to look it […]

Planning on hitting the beach sometime soon and want to keep up with the latest tropical developments? Maybe you live near the coast and want to know what is happening with that big storm sitting a few hundred miles offshore.
The National Hurrican Center is reporting on Tropical Storm Bret via RSS.
Link below goes to XML […]

Google has released an API for its Google Maps service.
The Google Maps API lets developers embed Google Maps in their own web pages with JavaScript. You can add overlays to the map (including markers and polylines) and display shadowed “info windows” just like Google Maps.

Not sure how this affects those sites that are already utilizing […]

After someone cracks the CSS encryption on DVDs don’t you think it would be a good idea to hire the guy? Maybe after he broke the encryption on the iTunes music store? Well if someone doesn’t scoop this guy up after he cracks Google’s video viewer then they have just lost it.
Instead of trying to […]

One question I always seem to get from friends and family is how to convert VHS tapes to DVD. There are lots of ways you can do it, and each process has their pros and cons.
Here is a site that talks about several of those methods and gives you pointers on how to get the […]

I am sure everyone is well aware of this, but if not Apple has decided to add color screens to all of their iPod models (excluding the Shuffle for all you smartasses).

The simplified lineup features a new 20GB color screen model for $299 (the same price as the older monochrome version), a 60GB model for […]

Saturday night I was out doing things that I probably shouldn’t be doing with people I shouldn’t be hanging out with, but it was fun. These people thought it would be a good idea to build a Star Destroyer replica from legos. It only took them 10 hours.
They also made a video of it using […]

What if officials of a government publicly stated something along the lines of: “proprietary formats will no longer be acceptable in communication between citizens and government?”
For people that are already in tune with Open Source, this seems very reasonable - I know it does for me.
The thing is, it is being reported that statements such […]

Want to give your fancy digital shots a little retro touch? Might I suggest the Polaroid-o-nizer? Just give it the url of an image you want to “onize”, change the tilt degree or background color, if you wish, and Polaroidonize away.

I can’t be alone in the thought that estimating project deadlines is hard. Well, picking a date isn’t hard, but picking a realistic, mostly accurate date is. Bert Webb, of Open Loops has written a helpful post on just that subject, including a nice equation for estimating a realistic deadline. If […]

The King Kong movie trailer has been released and I must admit that it is a doozy. Peter Jackson has easily established himself as one of the top 3 filmmakers for this decade in my opinion.

My first impressions of Kong based on this trailer are strong. Jack Black seems to be a perfect choice, even […]