This has to be the most random thing to come from CES!
When the alarm goes off, not only does it make annoying noises, but it launches a flying propeller that you have to catch to turn it off! I think this might finally solve my problem of sleeping through my alarm.
Looks like you can buy it here, but they’re sold out =(
http://www.boysstuff.co.uk/product.asp?id=13583
I bought a new sound card for my computer using some of my Christmas money.
Box Art:
Front Panel:
The Card:
My dad also bought me some nice Grado headphones. Music has never sounded so clear!
I’ve been waiting almost 6 months for the newest ATI graphics card to come out, and it looks like my wait is almost over.
According to this article, the R600 should see its release sometime this month! It should feature GDDR4 RAM and a clock speed of 800 mhz! It’ll support DirectX 10, which means I’ll be able to play upcoming games like Crysis and Halo 2 PC. Looks like I’ll en up buying Vista after all!
Here’s an image from a patent Apple recently filed. This could be what future iPods will look like!
It uses touch buttons around the edge of the screen as opposed to normal push buttons. I wonder what happens as it bumps around in your pocket!
Usually the first thing I do when I work with a new install of Windows XP is download Firefox. However, I haven’t done this yet on my new Vista laptop. Why? Because IE 7 has tabbed browsing and a sleeker user interface. I’ll probably do it eventually, but for now, Internet Explorer is working fine. One of the things I do miss is the spellcheck feature in Firefox 2 Beta.
Which platter will reach the finish first?
My laptop died again (This is what… the 4th time?). After performing several “Clicks of Death” and having some weird HD issues, it finally bit the dust and refuesd to boot Windows. Luckily though, I had another laptop hard drive readily available. Unforetunately, it meant the end to my Compaq laptop. I didn’t have a copy of Windows for it either. But then I remembered! You can get a free evaluation copy of Windows Vista off the Microsoft site. I went ahead and installed Vista, and was up in running in about 45 minutes. Vista runs pretty good on such a slow laptop. It doesn’t have any of the eye candy or cool themes since this laptop runs on onboard graphics. But it still looks much prettier than XP. I’m still mournin the loss of the other drive, since it had tons of information on it that I needed (school projects, Outlook contacts, some website stuff). I’m still hoping i’ll be able to salvage the data off it somehow. Maybe it’ll randomly work eventually. But most likely not =(.
I updated the My Computers page to reflect the changes.
Lynx is an awesome, command line based text browser. You can download and play with it here.
Press G to type in a URL. Use the up and down arrow keys to navigate from link to link. Use PageUp and PageDown to scroll. It’s so much fun, and unneccesary!
Everyone I know that has upgraded to iTunes 7 have experienced awful skipping and distortion effects during playback, especially while playing games. I found a fix that appears to have solved the problems I was experiencing. It turns out that it wasn’t iTunes, but it was QuickTime that was causing the problems, and reverting to an earlier version of a particular file can fix the distortion and skipping problems.
Here’s a link to the forum post:
http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=497963
Download the files there and stick them in the QTSystem folder of your QuickTime install directory and you’ll be good to go!