Seriously trivial thoughts
Found this on eHow.com and was skeptical that it would really work with my Sansa Fuze, but low and behold it does! Basically, after connecting the cable to your Sansa, you just slowly plug the USB cable into your PC. Watch for the charging indicator on the screen. The charging pins–for some reason–connect before the …
I used to think that Creative Zens were the best MP3 players for my needs, but after much research I decided to switch camps and try the Sansa Fuze. Why? No special software to install: The Fuze can appear as a removable drive and you just drag and drop your music. By default it will …
I got a new MP3 player and it turns out the album art doesn't show up if the jpg file isn't something like folder.jpg. Well, most people would probably just say oh well. Well, I figured out a relatively easy way to find the offending files and rename them…saving time, right? It just occured to …
I've had many MP3 players and usually they come with some pre-installed songs. For some reason I've JUST come to the realization that they pretty much ALWAYS suck. They obviously don't put too much thought in the selection of songs. You would think that record companies would use this was a chance for people to …
I use Vista on my Motion Computing LE1700 tabletPC and don't have any issues with it. I'll admit that I do most of my work on my main XP system, but it's not like Vista blows up or crashes frequently, if at all. You should check out Microsoft's Mojave Experiment where they show people a …
Got a 8% discount from Buy.com and pulled the trigger on an 8GB Sansa Fuze mp3 player for just $105. Why’d I choose the Fuze? No special software to install music (drag and drop) Passive bookmarking. Automatically remembers where you left off on audiobooks and podcasts SDHC slot for future storage expansion (8GB avail now, …
I've come to realize that Gmail just isn't robust enough to be a dependable repository for calendar and contacts, at least for me. My realization of this comes after my project to divide up my work and personal contacts and calendar. I have always kept one calendar and one set of contacts, and it's always …
Gmail's conversations and labels features drives me crazy and I'm sure a lot of folks don't truly understand what is going on. Basically, if you email your friend, they reply, you reply, etc. etc., Gmail handles ALL of the emails as one thing called a “conversation” which can be multiple related emails. You can see …
Ever since CNet changed the BOL feed, my Nokia N95's podcast app would not handled it correctly. The episodes were in the wrong order and worst of all the newest one would not automatically download. I was manually having to remember to download it every day. I traced the problem to bad whitespace characters in …
Picked up this baby at CostCo for $170. Came with a nice case and even a headrest bracket so it can be mounted on the back of a front seat for people in the back. What is REALLY exciting about this unit is that it supports DIVX. I burned a bunch of DIVX (actually XVid) …