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  • iPod photo

    iPodlounge iPod photo review. A good balanced review of the iPod photo. I’d summarize by saying really beautiful screen, but the photo stuff is pretty lame. For myself, my photos cause itunes to crash when it is trying to process them. It really doesn’t like tif files and barfs on them as it trys to…

  • Colorvision Spyder2Pro and Printfix

    Well, I’ve been scanning quite a few 35mm slides now and getting quite good at it. My monitor and printer still aren’t calibrated though and with the Spyder2Pro finally in distribution at about $240 or $100 more with Printfix, its time to look seriously at buying one. Here are some reviews: * PrintFIX. Basically, the…

  • Bluetooth and Wifi collision

    Handtops.com- New OQO WIFI Drivers!!! Dated 11/11/04. _Hat tip to Handtops.com, this is exactly my problem, I see a signal, but DHCP hangs. Sounds like the fix is to deinstall the Bluetooth drivers_ While I was in an experimenting mood, I tried something else in an attempt to get to the bottom of the problem…

  • OQO Buzzing and Wifi

    jkOnTheRun: Further hardware problems for the OQO. this guy is just ahead of me. Just noticed the AC Adapter buzzing and I can’t acquire a Wifi signal. Actually, it report it sees the signal, but can’t DHCP. Wierd.

  • More on OQO

    jkOnTheRun: Problems in OQO-land. Hat tip to Jonathan Kellerman for pointing out where to get help on the OQO. He points out that most OQO users hang out at the “OQO Forum”:http://www.handtops.com/show/forum/3 so maybe I can get some problems fixed there.

  • OQO

    My buddy “Mike Kwatinetz”:http://www.azurecap.com/html/partners/kwatinetz.html is an investor in “OQO”:http://oqo.com as reviewed by “Tomshardware”:Tom’s Hardware Guide Mobile Devices: The OQO: WindowsXP in the Palm of Your Hand – Introduction, “engadget”:http://www.engadget.com/entry/9535533665475287/ and a good review by “webchat on handtop.com”:http://www.handtops.com/show/news/42/0/What_is_the_OQO.html I bought a Model 01 to see what the experience is. IMHO there is a real product playbook…

  • Audioscribbler

    Audioscrobbler :: Home. A cool application. It installs in your music player and then you vote by simply playing music. Kind of interesting to see popularity like this.

  • Windows doesn't recognize iPod

    Your Windows PC doesn’t recognize iPod. Things have been working great, so of course Murphy’s Law says things should start to fail 🙂 My 40GB iPod Photo suddenly isn’t recognized by Windows over USB 2.0. Doesn’t work across two Windows machines but it does work with Firewire to a Macintosh. Mysterious thing is that it…

  • Last Minute Shopping

    “Hoops”:http://scbhooper.com said he had a bit of quick shopping to do. It is amazing how you can still get things online and quasi-online just a few days before Christmas. Here are notes for last minute shoppers: * “Outpost.com”:http://outpost.com. This is the cyber outlet for Fry’s. So if you don’t feel like jetting over to Fry’s,…

  • MovableType Upgrade

    Movable Type Publishing Platform: Movable Type 3.14 released. You’ll want to get this one, it fixes slow downs because of massive spam attacks. Sigh. Sign of the modern world.