Thursday, August 30, 2007

Why Do I Continue to Be Such a Cheapskate?

Chris has a highly informative and humorous BT headset review over at Gear Diary.

I should have spent an extra 40 bucks and bought the Plantronics Voyager™ 520 Bluetooth® Headset. And with good reason. The Voyager 520 addresses all the issues I had with my first Bluetooth experience and passes all the tests with flying colors.

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Thursday, August 23, 2007

iPhone Application Installer

Have an iPhone and a hankering to install some of the third-party apps that are being developed? iPhone mods no longer require a CS degree, although you'll still risk the wrath of Jobs for second-guessing his judgment on which apps should be run on iPhone.

Installer.app promises to provide an easy interface to install iPhone applications over EDGE or Wifi. It's in Beta and comes with no warranty, so proceed with caution.

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Tuesday, August 21, 2007

The Facebook Fallacy

This is for the Courtster and CeeElCee:

Avoiding the Facebook because you think it's pointless? A silly waste of time? Too much like MySpace? Just for college kids?

Jenneth over at Gear Diary used to think so, too....

The way I see it, having a Facebook page will soon be just as standard as having a mobile phone or email address. Resistance is futile.
Get with it already.

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Apple Offers Refurbished iPhones

How about an iPhone for $100 off? Sounds good to me. Props to Juice for discovering this before I saw it covered anywhere. Here's all you need to know:

Apple has started offering refurbished iPhones that are priced $100 less than the originals and come with a one-year limited warranty.

The handsets, which were either returned or brought in for repair, are available in 4-Gbyte or 8-Gbyte models. For an additional $69, Apple is offering the AppleCare Protection Program, which extends repair coverage on the combination cellular phone, music player, and Web browser for two years.

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Reactiv Cyclist Protection Jacket Is Safe, Looks Cool(ish)

The ultimate in biker geek gear. The video demonstration makes it almost look cool (play it large for best effect). The photo after the jump reveals it to be otherwise. The $200 price tag settles it.

Great concept, though.

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Sunday, August 19, 2007

Sinner's Lament

Today, Reflected Signal has launched as a place to present elements of the mundane in a way that might reveal something of interest. The idea is to post one photo, video clip, or other media piece each day of something that I've stumbled across as I've gone about the day.

If you enjoy today's post ("enjoy" defined broadly), please click through to the site and leave a comment.

God's benevolence as illustrated by creationists.

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Thursday, August 16, 2007

Freetards, this is outrageous

Looks like we have another entry in our nerd sex series, again courtesy of his FakeSteveness -- although I have to say the level of cleverness seems in decline. I might not even have posted this one, except that the Juice likes this Ubuntu stuff and couldn't bring himself to comment on either of the previous posts, owing to his being "too tired and worn out." Not sure if his viewing of the previous entry contributed to that state. Nonetheless, the featured woman has clearly been quite well exploited.

Honestly. What is it with you Linux guys that you have to keep objectifying women in order to promote your operating system? First we had Novell exploiting women and now Ubuntu is jumping aboard the shame train too.

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