If you were waiting for an affordable tablet to hit the market in the US, this may be your time. Acer’s new Iconia Tab A100 is now on sale and starting price is $330 (or slightly more from Amazon
[Android 3.2 ACER Iconia Tab A100 – tgdaily.com]
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When I forked over the $205 to Amazon for the Hauppauge HDPVR high definition television to PC recorder, I thought two things: “I hope it’s worth it” and “How the hell do you pronounce Hauppauge?” I found out the answer to both questions this week when my recorder died after 22 months of otherwise perfect operation.
Before Crasstalk came along, I spent most of my free time working on MythTV. I don’t care for the DVR service that the cable providers are offering. The monthly fees are a part of it, but that the menus on those provider DVR units are also full of ads is unacceptable. There are already ads during the content, product placement ads in the actual shows, they even shove ads in with my monthly billing statement. MythTV is partially an act of defiance on my part. I want at least some control over the content stream coming into my home. Continue reading
Didja ever have some people exit your life, and you ended up wondering about them years later? People who don’t leave a huge digital footprint on myspace and linkedin and orkut and facebook, and yet you get curious about what the hey happened to them?
I had some friends two houses down when I was a little kidling, and I really loved spending time with them. Their parents had really tricked out their house, and what they managed to do with seventies technology was pretty impressive to a first-grade me. Their mom would feed us white bread, yellow mustard and baloney sandwiches for lunch, something that was verboten in my house – my mom was perpetually on a diet and fed us roasted turkey deli meat on dry high-fiber bread that had wood cellulose in it. Sawdust bread. Yeah. Continue reading
Many of you have asked me for tips on how to remove spyware from your computers, so I’ll be sharing some info. Please bookmark this article and send it to your friends, family, etc. It’ll help you out the next time you find your computer acting funny.
It’s time to learn about the Challenger locomotives of the 1930’s.
Let’s do the this thing… Chugga-chugga-chugga-chugga (That’s us traveling back in time) CHOO CHOO! Continue reading
Don’t you just love camping? The mosquito bites, the smell of marshmallows burning like molten lava, the weird people in the next campground over.
And you know who ruins camping? The ladies! What with their bear-attracting menstruation and need to possess so much of the air mattress’s surface area, they’re just not cut out for it. Sometimes men just need to be men. Together. Alone. In the woods. If you think this sounds gay, you’re completely wrong.
(Quick Warning: This week’s Craigslost might be NSFW. There is some questionable language but no obscene images.) Let’s get to the fuckery!
Answer: For at least one brand of wireless insulin pump it is theoretically possible. You may now quiver in fear. Continue reading
Astronomers are ridiculous and scientists are crazy, so what’s next from the people who brought us the THEORY of gravity and a poorly made film set in New Mexico in 1969?
A couple of these guys are coming out of their crazy closet and saying that the Earth may have once had two moons. Continue reading
A little while ago, Twitter published their top trending topics for the first half of 2011. For all that has been said about Twitter promoting triviality, thoughtlessness, Biebermania and every other sign of the apocalypse, the trending topics reveal a bit of hope for the Twitter generation after all – and also emphasise Twitter’s international spread.
Ok, so now that you know what Spotify is, let’s discuss what people are listening to on it.
Here are a few of the bands I’ve been checking out since I got my Spotify account. Continue reading