Somebody needs to develop this App, whether for Android or Apple I don't care, I can use either ( Read more... )

I had $100 in Amazon gift cards, and $100 in "generic" Visa gift cards from my birthday. So I pooled them and bought Amazon gift cards with the Visa gift cards. Then the question was...what do I get? Do I do as I've done before and just get myself a grab bag as full as I can make it? Or do I get some expensive thing I wouldn't normally buy ( Read more... )

I have Roku! I'm beside myself with joy. I bought it with my birthday Amazon GC from the in-laws. I've wanted one ever since I got MLB.TV - what it is is a little device (and I do mean little - it's a 3x3x1 inch box. I was expecting something component sized, but this is good because I can take it with me anywhere I go) that streams internet video ( Read more... )

Darn ( Read more... )

Okay, so I guess I, who, once upon a time, knew everything about computers and related technology have become a dimwitted old fuddy-duddy about it. I came into computers before USB, when having enough IRQs was still a problem, and kind of stopped following the evolving technology around the time the Pentium IV chip hit 3.06 GHz. When I bought my ( Read more... )

Hello, Wacom tablet. I've missed you!

Oh, goodie ( Read more... )

They put my Droid phone on the truck to deliver to me at 3:47am. It's still showing "in transit." I know I'm not there to get it, but, dammit, I want to see the note saying that it's arrived at my house!

Just in time for me to go on my trip, Joe's bonus came through today. I was GOING to rent a laptop - even went so far as to call Rent-A-Center and went through the entire identity-theft-enabling application process (and immediately thereafter signing up for LifeLock) when Joe called and said to go ahead and buy the el-cheapo laptop we'd seen last ( Read more... )

I'm wondering whether DISH network would be workable for us. There are just a few channels that are must-haves, and they're all contained in the 100 channel tier (currently $20 a month, $35 a month after six). Problem is - we have many televisions. Six of them, actually, plus a portable (yes, I know - we're over-TVed. But they all get use.) ( Read more... )