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Look at the size of that thing!
As some of you know, I've been looking for a second monitor for my home workstation for a while now. I finally coerced my spousal unit to let me buy one, and I finally figured out what make / model I wanted, and saved up enough pennies to get something good. I ended up getting Dell's new 2407 WFP-HC 24" Widescreen LCD monitor.
My former primary monitor (and my new secondary monitor) is a Samsung 213T 21" LCD Monitor. Although, the Samsung was the best monitor available that I could afford a few years ago, it doesn't hold a candle...
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Slingbox – The MVP of IPTV, MLB – Strike 2
Although, Dustin has become Joost fan, I just haven't been able to get excited about it. You see, about 6 months ago I purchased a Slingbox and my TV watching universe has been altered forever.
In case you don't know, a Slingbox TV is streaming device that enables consumers to remotely view their cable, satellite, or personal video recorder (PVR) programming from an Internet-enabled computer or phone with a broadband connectivity. It requires a minimum of 512 Kbps upload download speed to be watchable at YouTube quality. If you are blessed to have a very high speed internet connection,...
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Building A Perfect Beast
I recently started the process of building a new machine. Vista has shipped, along with a new Adobe Creative Suite 3, Microsoft Office 2007, and since new and improved CPU cycle sapping – "productivity enhancers" are on the way (Orcas and Katmai) it's time to upgrade. My old AGP based, AMD socket 939 motherboard, with DDR 400 memory and IDE drives doesn't feel fast anymore. My Xbox 360 currently smokes my PC as a game machine at the moment. It felt like a new chapter in the never ending war between Gate's Law and Moore's Law (right now I'd say...
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A Craftsman and His Tools
Mr. Swann recently talked about the tools he uses for his weblogging workflow. Since most craftsman like talking about their tools, I thought I'd let the world know what's on my hard drive these days.
It all begins with the OS, and I just started using Windows Vista. Although I respect Mac OS X a lot and admire Steve Jobs, I've never liked fruit computers since my Atari & Amiga days. I can't bring myself to love a platform with only one mouse button. I've played with Ubuntu, and it's is (by far) my favorite Linux distribution. (I run Windows...