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Life Update
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Well, it’s been a while since I updated anything interesting and I truly apologize for that. For the most part, I’ve been really busy with work lately, and ‘busy’ is probably an understatement.
In the last couple of months, I’ve been made to give presentations to staff members at the company I work for on the subject of social media and social networking. Although, I don’t consider myself a “guru,” it would seem that I have become the in-house expert on the matter.
Altogether, a good part of my time is spent working on my presentation. The rest of my work time is spent doing what I’m supposed to be doing which is build and maintain the company websites and social media accounts.
Personally, I’m looking at buying a house in the next year or so. I know I want a place that is close to my work which means that I have to wait a little while and save more money to afford any of the houses in that area. At this point, I’m just looking around. I don’t have the money to commit to anything right now, but in about a year, I’ll definitely be in a better financial position. (It feels weird putting that in writing. About a year ago, that was just a joke in my head. Now, it seems like an inevitability). If any of you have gone through the house buying process and have some tips, I’d appreciate any advice you may have.
In other quirky gadgetry news, I’m thinking about getting an iPod Touch to have a portable web surfing device on hand. Do any of you have one? How is the web browser on it? Does it support Adobe Flash? Earlier this year, I bought the Sony Mylo Com-2 and I was sorely disappointed. The WiFi range and battery life was horrible but the web browser was somewhat decent since it supported Flash. I really want something that will have a decent WiFi range, something with Flash, and battery life. Is the iPod Touch the device for me?
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New iPod Shuffle is "Small"
Thursday, March 12, 2009
The new iPod shuffle now sports 4 GB of disk space and about half the size of it's predecessor. They removed all the control buttons on the chassis and built them into the cord of their proprietary headphones. The also put Steven Hawkings's voice as your voice over announcer to give you your music track information. This new tiny, sleek, suppository-like design and larger capacity, makes it now possible to have unsupervised children accidentally swallow/choke on more music than ever before. It also guarantees that you'll probably misplace the damn thing before the day is over. The new buttonless design will eventually make you realize that you can't use your old generic headphone and that you'd better not loose the one that you get (or else you'll have to wait a while for a 3rd part to rip them off or pay ungodly amounts of money to Apple for a replacement). Visit http://www.apple.com/…odshuffle/ to learn more about the new Shuffle. Visit http://www.ex-lax.com/ if you've swallowed one. sent by ByteMonkey using Utterli.  Replies. Labels: classical music, ipod, portable devices
iPod goes 80's Retro Tech
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Remember in the 80's when rival gangs would find each other "fighting" in the streets or subways, but the fighting wasn't actually violent fighting. It was actually break dancing?  For those who do, the company Lasonic has something for you. It's the i931 High Perforance Portable Music System which not really that portable if you look at it. What you're seeing is a full sized 80's-style boom box that has a docking bay (resembling a cassete tape bay) where you can plug in your iPod classic. It also has the obligatory FM/AM radio and supports USB flash drives, SD/MMC cards to playback MP3 files. Labels: ipod, music, retro tech
Monkey Gets Bluetooth
Friday, June 06, 2008
 While I was roaming today about in Target, I spotted Skullcandy's iPod Bluetooth adapter called the " The Approach" and decided to pick it up. This thing has been out since January, but only now that I have a new iPod that I've actually paid any attention to it. The Approach is a very simple device. Plug it in and it starts looking for something to pair with. There's really nothing to press on the adapter. Most of the work will be turning on the discovery mode on your headset  Right now, I'm using the Approach with my Plantronics Pulsar 590E Bluetooth headset and they both seem to be working great. I originally bought this headset a couple of years back to listen to music on my Nokia 6265i cellphone but later found out that the phone didn't support stereo sound on Bluetooth. I never really used it much since I wasn't happy with the sound quality.  Now that I'm using it with the iPod to listen to music instead of my phone, the sound quality is awesome. To top it all, the Pulsar 590 supports multiple device connections. This means I can have it paired to my iPod and to my phone at the same time. Labels: ipod, mp3 players, music, portable devices
Annoying Disruptions
Monday, June 02, 2008
What does it take to make people quit disrupting me while I watch a movie on my iPod at work? If this keeps up, I'll never finish watching Charlie's Angels; Full Throttle and start Dead or Alive. You would be surprised at how fast a work day made up mostly of writing code goes by when you have a movie playing in the background. By the way, Demi Moore is one tough evil mother in CA:FT. (Yeah, I know. I'm a bit behind at watching my movies). Labels: fun at the office, ipod
"The iPod has Landed" or "Another Sleepless Night"
Thursday, May 29, 2008
 I was just checking my Amazon.com account to see how far away my iPod has to travel to get to me, and I was surprised to find out that it has already arrived to my home. I wasn't expecting it to arrive so soon. In fact, I just received the shipping confirmation yesterday. (I wonder if it got stalled in the email server). I thought I had a few more days of waiting left to do, but now I'm not complaining. With the iPod waiting for me at home, I'm probably going to be staying up all night long trying to get it synchronized with my current music library. I am hoping that this unit already has all the firmware updates on it so that I don't waste any time doing boring stuff like updating the firware. I'll probably be working on getting my movies on the device. I already have the software that I need. The only thing missing was the iPod which now here. If you're thinking about driving by my house to steal my iPod package, please think again. I already called my neighbor and told them to pick up and hold it for me. By the way, they are NRA members and they would love to have a reason to play with their new "thirty-aught-six." Labels: ipod, mp3 players, music, portable devices
iPod Madness
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Sometime during the weekend I decided that I needed a new iPod. So, I grabbed all the loose change in my car and headed for the local CoinStar machine where I managed to turn my change into an Amazon.com gift certificate for $58.17 to help finance this purchase. Plus, I did some computer work recently that is going help make this expense a little more palpable. My reason for wanting a new iPod is related to my current iPod adapter in my car. Since I've had that adapter, I usually leave my old iPod in my car. I rarely remember to disconnect it and take it inside so I can listen my tunes. After a while, I started missing having my iPod around. Sure I could listen to music on my computer or on my mp3-enabled phone, but it just wasn't the same. Now, I'm waiting for my new iPod. I chose the modest black iPod Classic with the 80gb capacity. I figured this would hold my 20GB music library and leave some room for video clips which my old iPod did not support. So now, I'm dying of anticipation. I just can't wait for the bloody thing to arrive. Labels: ipod, mp3 players, music, portable devices
Sunday Fun
Sunday, May 18, 2008
Well, it's another Sunday and we all know what that partly means: Laundry Day. It's a good thing too. The scent of cigarette smoke is lingering on the clothes I wore last night. So, I'll be doing this for a good part of the day. I woke up this morning wanting tacos and I've decided that I'll be "running for the border" sometime today. Maybe after I'm done with laundry, I'll go to TacoBell and drive around town for a bit. This will give me an another excuse to listen to my music in my Ipod-powere car. I just have to remember not to be driving around for too long since the price of gasoline has making my wallet cry for a while now. I don't have any tech calls this weekend so I'm relatively free to do what I want. So far, it's been a good weekend for me. I really believe that in order to keep yourself sane that you sometimes have to take some time to let go of all your problems and have a good time. Labels: cravings, food, ipod, Laundry Monster, Mexican, music, roaming about town, Sundays
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