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Continue reading →: Top PSP Games
Calvin really likes the PSP but has lost all his games. “Gamespot”:http://www.gamespot.com/games.html?type=top_rated&platform=1024&page_type=games&tag=subnav;top_games. Sid Maeier’s Pirates got an 8.6 and is wonderful on the PC. Powered by ScribeFire.
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Continue reading →: New MacBooks next week or certainly by June WWDC
Mac Rumors: Apple Mac Rumors and News You Care About ThinkSecret updates with claims that both MacBook and MacBook Pro updates are coming sooner than expected. (As an aside, “Anandtech”:http://anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/intel/showdoc.aspx?i=2985&p=9 has seen no real world performance improvement with moving to this chipset, which means that used or refurbished MacBook Pro’s…
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Continue reading →: United Mileage promotions
United is always running strange promotions that require signup. The latest is that if you register at “http://www.united.com/chinabonus”:http://www.united.com/chinabonus, you’ll get up to 10,000 mileage points if you fly to China before June 30. Turns out there are lots of way to track this. “MileMaven.com”:http://milemaven.com is an awesomely cool site that…
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Continue reading →: itunes cannot run because it has detected a problem with your audio configuration
Keep getting this error and Apple says that you need to “uninstall”:http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304424 and reinstall Quicktime. Let’s see if that helps. Powered by ScribeFire.
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Continue reading →: Helen and John Don’t Shop…
Our buddies Helen and John have a resolution, they aren’t shopping for anything for a year. The Anti-Shopping Year. Good luck to them! Powered by ScribeFire.
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Continue reading →: Type in a private jet tail number or airline flight number to find out where it is
If you type in any tail number of any private jet from “Landings.com”:http://www.landings.com/_landings/pages/search.html you can search for any N-prefix which are US registered. Then if you type into google, the tail number, you’ll get the “registry.faa.gov”:http://registry.faa.gov site to tell you about the aircraft and then you can use “Flightaware.com”:http://flightaware.com/live/ to…
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Continue reading →: Conde Nast Traveler Gold List 2007
The “Gold List 2008”:http://www.concierge.com/bestof/goldlist/2007 An incredible useful list of great restaurants, hotels and around the world. Its pretty accurate actually because it is a reader poll. At least the areas that I know, San Francisco, LA, New York, “Shanghai:http://www.concierge.com/bestof/goldlist/2007/regions/asia/china/1shanghai I’d agree for instance that the “Pudong “Shangri-La”:http://www.concierge.com/bestof/goldlist/2007/hotels/detail?id=297&lastUrl=/bestof/goldlist/2007/regions/asia/china/1shanghai&label=Shanghai%20hotels is probably the…
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Continue reading →: Component vs. DVI vs. HDMI
DVI vs. HDMI vs. Component Video — Which is Better? First, to clear away one element that can be confusing: DVI and HDMI are exactly the same as one another, image-quality-wise. The principal differences are that HDMI carries audio as well as video, and uses a different type of connector,…
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Continue reading →: United Red Carpet Clubs with Showers or Arrival Suites
When you arrive in an overnight, it sure is nice to clean up and feel fresh. Here are the shower facilities as I know them and you can kind of glean things from Skytrax “Lounge reviews”:http://www.airlinequality.com/Product/Lounges.htm United Red Carpet Clubs in Hong Kong, London Heathrow, Sydney and Tokyo Narita have…





