Category: Gadget Fetishry
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News from the future
And so it begins. After much persuasion from my friends and family, I type this update from my brand new Samsung Galaxy Nexus. That’s right. I got a smartphone. I can’t really say that I feel smart though. I picked it up during my lunch break on Monday. I walked in with the intention of…
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HD stands for High Definition
High Definition is an understatement of what this camera is capable of achieving. It has taken nearly six months to get this camera, but I expect the results to be well worth it. I charged it up last night and hope to experiment with some of the myriad features some night this week. I combed…
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Initial Impressions: Cross Ion Lunar Gray
Well I got lots of packages and mail recently and my new Cross Ion Lunar Gray pen was included. Unfortunately, I had ordered two and there was only one in the package, yet 2 on the invoice. I’ve sent an email to the amazon reseller to try and get my second pen or a refund.…
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Photographic Malfunction Part 2
See Part 1 for the backstory. The lines have come back. Apparently the appear when I do not use my flash. Pictures look fine with the flash on, but horrible with it off. For now, I have switched back to the old camera. It still takes good pictures, just not as high a resolution. I…
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Hunting the Feisty Fawn
I have finally taken that large leap that I’ve been saying I wanted to take for quite a long time. No, I have not quit my job to live off the fat of the land…yet. I installed Linux on my laptop! I know, not quite the huge leap you were expecting. More like the thing…
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Photographic Malfunction
Take a look at the picture from my previous post. Notice anything funny? If you can take your eyes away from those delicious cookies, you’ll note a strange line running across the bottom left side of the photo. I didn’t notice it until this afternoon. That picture was taken with my still fairly new digital…
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Photo Opportunity
After some careful consideration, I decided I needed a new digital camera. I have a wonderful camera right now, but its just too bulky and too big to tote around at the conventions. I need to have a camera that can be taken out quickly and be ready to snap photos right away and I…
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DS stands for Detective Stories
I recently got a Nintendo DS for my birthday. I have to say I really have not put it down since I got it. I say this entirely due to one game. New Super Mario Bros. I haven’t actually enjoyed playing a game this much since…well I can’t ever remember enjoying a game this much.…
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Nintendo DS
This is the tax-free holiday weekend in Massachusetts. I didn’t realize this until about Thursday and on Friday, I had a brilliant idea! Its time for a Nintendo DS. I’m not much of a gamer. In fact, the last system I got was a Gameboy Advance circa 2002 on ebay. I have an SP, but…
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The Penalty of Stability Part 4
5 installs of Windows XP and service pack 2 later, I have returned the victor! To make a long story short, it was the graphics card driver. I uninstalled it in safe mode restarted and it went right into Windows without so much as a pause. I’ve loaded up some of my applications including those…