Posted on July 17th, 2008 by Shan
I’ve been on a quest for the perfect off-site backup service. I’ve considered everything using my own servers and rsync, tried various free/cheap services like Carbonite and AT&T Remote Vault, and finally came across Jungle Disk. Jungle Disk uses Amazon S3 for storage, and Amazon EC2 for their Plus service. This review is of the [...]
Posted on July 8th, 2008 by Shan
So, last fall I bought a Genie PowerLift Excelerator garage door opener from Home Depot. I decided to go with a higher-end opener because of the nice warranty graphics on the box touting their superior warranty. It turns out to have been a great decision.
Over the past couple months, I’ve noticed that the garage door [...]
Posted on May 8th, 2008 by Shan
I got sucked into a spontaneous purchase the other day at Wal-Mart. I was walking by and saw they had an Aiptek Action HD Camcorder. It has several key features that had caught my eye in the previous weeks:
It’s cheap ($199)
It’s HD
I was in the market for a cheap, small, HD camcorder, and this seemed [...]
Posted on April 28th, 2008 by Shan
Mariokart Wii is a blast as a game. Three complaints about the online experience:
1. Friend codes suck. It’s a pain to use, hard to track down your own friends, and then after all is said and done, your friend code only applies to a single game title, so your Mariokart code won’t work with Smash [...]
Posted on April 27th, 2008 by Shan
I’ve just realized that over the past 12 months I’ve gone Apple. It started innocently enough with a Juniper iTunes credit card and an iPhone on launch day last June. Then an Apple TV found it’s way into my home. Eventually, a MacBook and a Mac Pro followed suit.
I have to say I’m impressed with [...]
Posted on March 23rd, 2008 by Shan
Ok, ok… So this is less of a “moving” post and more of an “introducing” type thing. Aperture has no equal. My apologies to the Photoshop Lightroom team that might be reading this, but Lightroom just doesn’t cut it.
Aperture is a great tool for those of us with DSLR cameras, and maybe, but only barely, [...]
Posted on March 14th, 2008 by Shan
I loved TortoiseSVN. I miss TortoiseSVN. I’ve found a great tool for the Mac that does a very poor impression of TortoiseSVN, but is still useable. scplugin is a Finder contextual menu item that exposes most SVN commands. It’s worked like a charm, so far.
Wanting to also see some GUI stuff, I downloaded svnX, which [...]
Posted on March 13th, 2008 by Shan
So notepad.exe was my bread & butter on Windows for doing text editing. Not very powerful, but it got the job done. While attempting to play with various config files (more on that in subsequent blog posts), I came across the program TextMate. It’s got all sorts of neat text-editor features, but the best one, [...]
Posted on January 14th, 2008 by Shan
I’ve always wanted earbuds with a boom mic. I’ve wished for years that they make one. Finally, Plantronics got around to it with the Plantronics .Audio 480.
I saw the package at BestBuy, and didn’t hesitate to pick it up. When I opened the package, however, I got a nice little surprise. The buds have two [...]
Posted on December 14th, 2007 by Shan
Last week, I was in the middle of some Team Fortress 2 when everyone started yelling at me that my mic was producing nothing but static. It would seem that the frail little wire that connected it to the controller must have shorted out. It was time to get a new headset.
First I went and [...]