If you’ve been holding back to buy your Canon digital SLR outfit, it’s a great time to do it now!!
The 1-series and 5D don’t even quality as one item with zero rebate this time, this means no 1Ds Mark II upgrade for me… 😀
I’ve seen too many other blogs with my former Connections theme, so after some heavy web searching, I found this theme by Eston Bond that has a PHP astronomical calculator to figure out the sunrise and sunset times base on a given latitude and longitude, right now I’ve set it to where I’m located in the bay area.
I’m going to replace the 2 header pictures, probably with some of my own photography, once I get home…
Linksys.com – Products/Wireless/Basic Networking/Voice & Telephone/Telephones/CIT200
This is great, except the fact that the base station has to be plugged into a computer, and the machine has to be running the Skype software.
There is no reason not to make the phone to talk directly to my wireless network, eliminating the need of having a base station and a computer turned on just to use Skype… well, only reasons would be cost and time-to-market, it would require a more powerful processor, more memory, and an embedded version of the Skype… Though, Linux already uses embedded Linux on some of their APs, and Skype already has a version for Linux. So I’d imagine the got APIs for Linux already, not exactly plug and play for Skype and Linksys, but definitely not difficult.
The thing is, if I have my PowerBook on, I might as well use my Bluetooth headset, which costs about half the price of this Skype phone. If I have a desktop computer, then it might be more interesting…
Another obvious turn off, is that it only works with Windows XP and 2000. I think one of the reasons Skype has such a big user base is because their client runs on almost every popular OSes out there. (A Palm version would be nice btw, if any of the Skype developers found this…)
Build me a Skype phone that doesn’t require a PC and I will be very interested…
Actually, a WiFi Skype phone would go beyond household use, if it’s small and looks cool enough, I’d probably carry it with me to places with WiFi hotspots, it would be totally disruptive to the traditional wireless carriers. And with municipal WiFi networks, this might get interesting…
The Clicker: Apple’s real plan for iPod video?
Interesting commentary on the new iPod and Apple’s strategy…
Got an email from Vaja with pics of their iPod Nano cases…
They also said the 5G iPod cases will be out soon…
Vaja Team is happy to announce the release of our first designs for iPod nano:
AppleInsider | New PowerBooks, Power Macs due shortly
I know at least 2 people who are very close to pulling the trigger on PowerBooks… might want to wait another week or 2…
So SlickDeals.net reported $3/yr at Yahoo for new domain registration, Sherry’s friend Jen wanted a domain, so I went there and tried to get one for her, here’s what it showed at the final step:
Billing Summary
Annual Charges1 .Domains fee : 2 year(s) at $2.99/year
$19.90 $5.98 1
(save 70% per year
for up to 5 years)
2 .Private Domain Registration fee 2
$9.00
Today’s total:
$14.98
2The Private Domain Registration service will be billed annually for the duration of your domain registration term
This is pretty f’king ridiculous, HAHA. I’m going back to GKG.Net.
damn, this is niiiiice! costs about the same as the Louis Vuitton iPod case, but a lot more practical. Looks nicer too IMO… well, it costs quite a bit more, but when you spend that kindda money on an iPod case you probably wouldn’t care…
Maybe it looks better this time… iTunes5 looks like shit… 🙂
UPDATE: it looks the same, only difference I can see after launching it was the Videos stuff…