2005 January

Following my recent move to Seattle, I’ve been debating which phone service to choose. Traditional landline services from companies like Qwest and Verizon quickly pile up fees for extra features and long distance. I’ve been thinking hard about switching to VoIP but didn’t trust the call quality until recently. Call quality on for fee services […]

While Microsoft has been heavily moving Windows Media Center through manufacturers such as HP and Sony, the Mac community has been wondering out loud where the worlds easiest-to-use computer version of this is. Didn’t Steve Jobs once comment at Macworld that Apple wanted to be the digital media center? Sure, they have iEverything […]

If you are looking for something completely unique and different, try giving Sam Green & The Time Machine a listen. Here is music that will take you to the fringe. His folky melodies are overlain onto lyrics that actually feel more like poetry. Quirky phrasing adds another dimension. There is an other-worldly, other-time feeling to […]

LAS VEGAS-CONSUMER ELECTRONICS SHOW (CES) - January 25, 2005 - Legacy Manufacturing officially kicked off the national rollout of the new Paper Mate Inkjet Cartridge product line at CES. Paper Mate has licensed Legacy Manufacturing, LLC (Denver) to produce a line of Paper Mate inkjet printer cartridges. Product begins shipping in mid-January and is […]

Priced to compete with Canon’s Digital Rebel or EOS 300D, the Pentax *ist Ds was introduced in the run up to Photokina 2004. It is Pentax’s second digital SLR and it continues its position of having the smallest and lightest DSLR on the market today. The extremely compact *ist Ds features a 6.1 effective megapixel […]

In a previous post, I outlined several tips to assist in making the right HDTV purchase decision. With the perfect screen filling your entertainment room with rich visualization it’s time to address the sound to complement it. Nothing kills a great movie experience like bad sound. A surround sound audio experience for your movies is […]

More megapixels and a bigger digital zoom are what make digital cameras fly off the store shelves, but what I really want is a camera with a better response time. The lag between the time I press the button and the time a camera actually grabs an image can be infuriating. Even though I know […]

One of the more frequent questions I receive boils down to, ‘Which HDTV should I buy? DLP? Plasma? LCD? CRT?’ My response every time is, ‘That depends.’ Much of the HDTV shopping process is subjective to personal preference and budget. I personally lean toward DLP front projectors because I want the movie theater experience, but […]

Jim Gaven is a 20-year old Seton Hall University student and aspiring acoustic Emo singer/songwriter who hails from Hamilton, New Jersey. He has been writing songs and playing live up and down the east coast for close to three years. Songs about breakup, relationships, hardship, and religious experiences showcase his heartfelt writing. If you like […]

If you are looking to print images for posters - or any size larger - then you can (and it’s very easy to do)! The Rasterbator is a Web service that creates huge, rasterized images from any picture. The rasterized images can be printed and assembled into extremely cool-looking posters up to 20 meters in […]

I just finished a three thousand mile car trip across eleven of the fifty United States. From Des Moines, Iowa to Amarillo, Texas, to Shasta Lake, California, to Blaine, Washington bizarre weather patterns are creating abnormal winter extremes. Where Mother Nature coats the trees in ice or piles on a few feet of snow, opportunities […]

Dearest fans of Jeff & Natasha,
Over the weekend, in what is sure to be one of the red carpet events of
the decade, I asked the beautiful and glamorous Miss Natasha to be my
wife, and she accepted. As you can imagine, it was quite the media
spectacle; cameras were everywhere. There wasn’t a dry eye in the […]

Norcent’s powerful DP-2700 and DP-5000 systems bring the cinematic experience home
CES Booth LVCC SO 3/31419 - Norcent, a leading
supplier of consumer electronics, will exhibit its feature rich Home
Theater System solutions at the 2005 International CES in Las Vegas
this January. Compact and affordable, the DP-2700 and DP-5000 Home
Theater Systems let consumers experience theater-like sound and image
quality […]

I love the premise of this show. Sexy, capable woman kicks ass and takes names, making the world a safer place. That said, tonight’s two-hour installment did not thrill. A spy show has to thrive on secrets, yet any audience could have predicted the outcome to most of the plot twists on […]

Did you ever see that movie, Arthur, with Dudley Moore? Someone asked him what it’s like to be so rich, and he replied with great irony, “It doesn’t suck.”
My family uses that phrase quite often as an expression of satisfaction. When we like something a lot, we say “it doesn’t suck.” That about […]