As I pointed out a bunch of posts ago, I updated equipment in my gym. I updated my TV to a 42″ LCD 1080P HDTV and I replaced the receiver to an Onkyo TX-SR605 (my selection was primarily due to the recommendations of The HT Guys where they have talked about this unit several times [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Technology’
Programmable Remotes – Philips Pronto NG (TSU3000)
I’ve had a “Home Theater” system since it was nothing more than my TV hooked in to my amplifier and producing stereo sound. Now, I have 3 Home Theater’s in my house and I use programmable remotes to control them because using the remotes that come with the components mean too darn many remotes. Early [...]
HD DVD Player – Toshiba HD-A3
Kathy’s folks gave us a generous Christmas gift (they really didn’t need to but we are grateful anyway!). With some of it (and returning a upscaling DVD player I had just bought), I decided to get 2 HD-DVD players. I’m not really attached to either side of the format wars (HD-DVD vs Bluray) but since [...]
Updated WordPress
WordPress is the software that this blog run on top of. The developers released a security update so as a diligent user, I have updated my installation. You can check the WordPress site if you want to see what the update included besides the security fixes (there are a few other small things. There is [...]
Got a Wii for the family!
We actually got a bundle quite a while ago because it looked like the shortages for Wii’s were still on. We found our bundle at Costco. I made sure it worked when I first got it but then packed it up again and didn’t touch it till the kids unpacked it. Now it’s hooked up [...]
Leopard Mail’s RSS Feature
An important part of my day is going through the 220 or so blogs that I actively read. Obviously, not all of them are daily posters but still it’s something that means that there is activity to go through many times each day (except this particular week as many bloggers and podcasters seem to take [...]
Copyright continues to be misunderstood/misused
About a week or so ago, a video called “Richter Scales” was put out and then soon after taken down because of take down notices. Unfortunately, the take down notice from photographer, Lane Hartwell, seems to be a bullying tactic. Read the post from the link (which still had the video in it too) for [...]
Update to Gym Theater
I had to tear down my gym while we were putting in the new windows so the crew could put the windows in (which look good, they did a great job!). I’ve put the gym back together now. A big part of the setup though was a new gym theater. In preparing for some new [...]
Call Me
I’m giving Google’s Grand Central a try. It’s an interesting concept. It’s principal is that they give you one telephone number to rule all numbers that you might have in your life. The concept works well for a busy professional who may have a cell, business number and home number and maybe a web site. [...]
Getting Ready for a Trip
My normal system is a Mac Pro with a nice 24″ monitor and a smaller second monitor. It’s a killer system. Now that I’m going on a trip though, I need to get an older PowerBook up to snuff. It’s pretty painful given what I’m used to. The screen size and it’s limitations are bad [...]
HTTPMail for Leopard – working great!
I was using Daniel’s HTTPMail plugin which allows Apple’s Mail App to send and recieve Hotmail under OS X 10.4. It is a great plugin that I had come to rely on. When I installed Leopard, OS X 10.5, the previous version stopped working. Daniel, who doesn’t do this app (or the other couple of [...]
New Video Camera
I got a new video camera today. I still need to play with it some more to give it my complete verdict. It is a Panasonic HDC-SD5 which uses SD-HC memory instead of tapes, hard drives for the movies. It is also an HD camera doing true HD video. In my sample below, you will [...]
DigiDesign/M-Audio M-Box 2 Pro Vs Roland/Edirol FA-101
I’ve had an M-Box 2 Pro for about a year now. I’m a hobbyist and use it to record practice sessions on my guitar so that I can help myself get better (not sure it helps but hope springs eternal!). DigiDesign/M-Audio who is the manufacturer of the M-Box 2 Pro is very well know for [...]
Looking for a lense for Kathy’s Canon camera
We have a friend who is a professional photographer. She doesn’t profess to be an expert on all things camera but she does know her camera really well and what she likes in pictures. She is steering us towards cameras with F2.8 rather than higher numbers so that we can do better with less light [...]
Whole house surge protection
We had an electrician out today to install a whole house electrical surge protection system. That sounds like a really complex thing when I say it like that. What it turns out to be though is that two breakers in your breaker box (electrical panel) are moved (they need the top slots) and replaced with [...]