$50 to take my 14yo daughter to gate at airport!
US Airways charged me $50 to take my 14 year old daughter to the gate at LAX! Man. I think the plane ticket was $100. That's a bit excessive.
Streaming videos to Xbox 360 and N800 using TVersity!
Finally got to reading my March 2008 issue of Maximum PC and came across this article on TVersity which was supposed to allow me to stream DivX and XVid videos from my PC to my Xbox 360. Well, it couldn’t have been easier. I just installed the app, the Xbox saw the share and I …
Microsoft Outlook macro to move mail to Trash when using Gmail IMAP
A lot has been written about how Google was able to adapt their email engine to support IMAP. It’s use of labels instead of a folder hierachy results in emails never being really deleted even when they are no longer visible in the Inbox folder/label. Essentially, the “Inbox” label is removed, so the email no …
Replacing the battery in a Nokia AD-43 Audio Controller for the N95
This is the wired remote control that comes with the Nokia N95. The original one I had started getting the “Enhancement not supported” error message when I plugged it in. I read that this usually meant the battery was dead, but found it hard to believe there was a battery even in it since there …
Nokia N800 with Canola 2 scratches my iPod Touch itch
Since the introduction of the iPhone, and later iPod Touch, I’ve been drolling over their sexc UI, particularly the coverflow feature. I also like the Safari browser, but without things like Flash support, I’m sure it’s significant limitations would eventually get to me. Another issue was that I have a lot of music in Microsoft’s …
Playlist.com is so cool, it HAS to be illegal
My daughter showed me this cool site called Project Playlist (playlist.com). It’s a social networking site based totally around music. You enter an artist in the search list and it comes up with a bunch of hits. You can then add them to your own custom playlist. It appears that many (most?) of the links …
Golf ball finder
This just seems too good to be true, at least if you are a golfer. From the Shipdog.com website: What is the Ballfinder SCOUT ? The Ballfinder Scout� is a new innovative electronic device developed to locate lost golf balls.� Developed by world-famous scientists at Sarnoff Corporation, the Ballfinder Scout� uses a Proprietary digital imaging …
Motion Computing LE1700 Convertible Keyboard is great!
Well I tried the Bluetooth keyboard route, but the cheapo Chinese one I got off eBay sucked. $30 down the tubes. All of the other major brand ones were just too big. Too bad Apple doesn’t make a Windows driver for their cool new slim Bluetooth keyboard. The other thing I didn’t like was having …
Microsoft Bluetooth Audio Mouse
Yeah, you read that right. I paired my Microsoft Bluetooth� mouse with my Motion Computing LE 1700 slate and found my audio wasn’t working. Checking the Sound properties, I discovered that the audio was trying to playback through my mouse!!! HAHAHA It was easy enough to disable the erroneous devices, but I had to first …
Nokia sent me a brand new N95!
The display on the N95 I purchased last August was going crazy, blanking out and stuff, so I sent it in for repairs. As instructed, I only sent the phone. No SD card, battery, charger, etc…just the naked unit. Well, they couldn't fix it and sent me a brand new unit in a full retail …