It turns out I'm willing to pay between 1.00 and 22.00 for a "game" (in the case of 22 bucks, it was 3 games) so long as (a) it looks like something I might play once or twice or (b) it looks pretty. Steam and the App store is a potent combination as these games are streamed quickly to my device (computer for Steam, phone for App store) and I can ( Read more... )

I bought a new TV yesterday: a 55" VIZIO. It has some interesting Internet features, a pretty good picture quality, and it cost about 1300 all told. My friend Kenton described it as a "moderate" purchase. It is, really. Research showed that within the 50-70" range I could spend 2800 to 3200 for a "really good one." In the huge category, both ( Read more... )

Me: what anti-virus do you run ( Read more... )

I got a Linksys n-series router and "bridge" device to enhance both the home network and the Netflix streaming to our Blu-Ray player. The player has a very weak (according to Amazon reviews) wi-fi receptor in it and was having problems streaming video so we put the bridge device next to it and that gets the wireless signal and then runs a cable (' ( Read more... )

Gina got me a Bose surround sound system for the TV and we decided to mount the thing on the wall. This is all quite a lot of work and, it turns out, not without various pitfalls ( Read more... )

I ordered this yesterday:

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I ordered Adobe CS 4 a few days ago and it came while I was in the hospital with Gina. I wanted the full suite even though what I mostly use is InDesign. The suite costs between 1300 and maybe 300.00 (if you are a student). Apparently there are some outlets that let you claim to be a student even if you are not--but I didn't test this ( Read more... )

I got a Blu-Ray player last night from Best Buy. I'm not intrinsically against Blu-Ray but I had been in no hurry at all to get one. I'm not an audiophile or a videophile by nature: I do want the "premium experience" in general but not enough to pay exorbitant prices--and the cheaper Blu-Ray players didn't appeal to me ( Read more... )

Whatever it's called that bundled with AT&T: 100 channels. We have it "bundled" with our current AT&T package so it comes to like $10.00 extra per month.


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Unfortunately the power supply for my new PC is very expensive. I wasn't able to find what I wanted on Amazon so I went to a specialty UPS vendor and got this:

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