Purchased 12/03/2008. Blasphemous? Maybe. Funny? Yes! I like the first part of the description for this:
And the LORD formed the computer nerd of the dust off His keyboard, being mainly the powdered remains of heavenly Chee-tos, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, which wasn’t easy, given the computer nerd’s deviated septum; and the computer nerd became a living soul, if you can really call it living.
Okay so I finally got Windows 7 to install in virtualBox, turns out you need to select windows other, which does not allow 64-bit OSs. Additionally i needed to have VT-x turned off to get the install to work. Here are some prelim screenshots. I will post more comments as I use it more but my first impression: the look is like the new KDE and Vista had an ugly bloated lovechild. The default install of the x86 version of the OS takes up over 10Gb on a new vDrive nothing installed yet. I love how the touted this as a trimmed down OS…. okay well here are the screenshots.
Any sugestions on what I should try? leave it in the comments, I’m going to try and use this a bit more and I will update here with my comments.
So last week I splurged on an iPod Touch. I know what everyone is saying: “why not get an iPhone, its better”. Well 1. I didn’t want to switch to AT&T, and I still dont pay for my cell service 
. So UCF has wireless EVERYWHERE…. almost. Beyond that the only thing that was really holding me back was the price ($299 for the 8GB). Well I discovered the refurbished models that Apple has on thier website (baiscly $100 off). So that was my resonaing, but beyond that it is awesome.
The first item of business was of course the 2.0 firmware upgrade ($10 for iPod users). This gave me access the the app store, and let me tell you there is some cool shit. VNC, AIM, last.fm, AOL Radio just to name a few. I have to say this is one of the best products I have used in a while. It has all the features of the iPhone (almost) without the cost and contract.
The two things the iPod Touch lacks are a camera, which I have a pretty small one so thats not a big deal, and bluetooth. I would hope that in the update they would add bluetooth sync (which the iPhone doesnt have I dont think). So, for anyone thinking about buying an iPhone but likes thier phone too much I really recomend the iPod Touch.
UPDATE: lifehacker has an article about it today too (http://lifehacker.com/399619/forget-the-iphone++the-ipod-touch-is-good-enough)
So, I have recently been using BrightKite and Twitter a lot. I really like them. In case you don’t know here is a short explanation with both:
SMS @Replies Only
Friday, February 13th, 2009S. Joy Studios has a great post on how to recive just @replies over SMS. It can be summarized into 4 easy steps:
Voila! simple as that. You can have Jabber IMs and emails too. Something I have been looking for a tool to do for a long time.
Tags: protip, sms, tech, twitter
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