The Sleepy Geek

I have been a Windows user for quite some time and have been looking for a simple picture importing software management too for OS X. Well Picasa for Mac showed up on our doorstep a couple of weeks ago. Here is a short video on why I chose Picasa.

To be completely honest I haven’t been following the release dates for Windows 7 because I haven’t been very excited about a new Windows version. With the last release (Vista) being delayed so many times and rumours about this date and that date, I gave up on Microsoft’s schedule.
I downloaded the beta yesterday and installed [...]

Well I guess it’s more like “MY NEW BlackBerry Bold 9000” because it’s been out for a little while None the less it’s new for me and deserves a review. To start, I love having a qwerty keyboard with real buttons to be able to write emails and SMS messages. That is something [...]

I used to love listening to the radio on Christmas Eve because they always tracked Santa. They would give locations and the progress of Santa and how close he was to your city and it added to the magic of the night. My son is 4 years old, my daughter just turned 2 and because [...]

So you all know that I was updating to WordPress 2.7 because I touched on it last week. I am glad I made the switch because the admin interface is really nice. I liked the old 2.6.x interface as well but the charcoal on white is very easy to look at. The layout has also [...]

I have been searching around for Jaiku invitations on and off for a while and finally I came across a site that seems to be made for me If you want to try a twitter like site that is owned by Google then you should head over to…

Let’s face it! Google Reader was a pretty slick interface before they went and made any changes this week. I wasn’t expecting it (probably was mentioned on the reader blog RSS feed) but it is a welcome update.

If you are Canadian like I am then this sucks! I am sure that this is not the fault of Twitter but the fault of the wireless providers in Canada. To be completely honest they all are pretty bad up here. In a statement release on their site they explain the reason is due to [...]

I like to change it up every once in a while and put a new wallpaper on my computer. Usually I take something that is pertinant to the seasons or something going on in my life. Right now in my neck of the woods we have had our first real snow fall and the big [...]

The overall look is nice as well. I mentioned that the programs (or start for all the MS people) menu has been changed. The navigation takes a little getting used to but it’s still quite intuitive. It is actually much better than the Vista menu in my opinion.