Today Apple officially announced the iPad, the Apple version of a tablet PC. It’s basically a giant iPod Touch and fits somewhere between the iPhone / iPod Touch and the MacBook. I’m happy to see the device finally become a reality, but there are some things I wasn’t happy about. Will I get one? I don’t know… I do think my wife would really like it, especially with the camera adapter to allow her to import photos to the device. She’s been wanting a computer of some type for a while now… I had considered a Netbook, but with as much as she uses her iPhone, I think she’d like this better. It’ll really depend on our hands on impression once the device actually shows up at the Apple Retail stores. Read the rest of this entry »
iPad: The Apple Tablet Has Arrived
January 27th, 2010Back To Basics
January 25th, 2010As you can see, I’m back to the default WordPress theme right now. It sucks, and that is part of why I’m using it right now. You see, I’ve been unhappy with my old theme for a while now, and I’ve been wanting to get something new posted. Hopefully this will encourage me to get that done. Of course, before I do anything to my site I have to get the new forum skin finished for OverclockersClub.com, which I am more than a little late on wrapping up.
Things I Want to See in the iPhone 4.0 OS
January 25th, 2010The iPhone is a great little device, but there is room for improvement. Hopefully with Apple’s big event on Wednesday we’ll see an announcement about the iPhone 4.0 OS. TUAW has put togther a set of things (part 1, part 2, part 3) they’d like to see based on user submission, and there are a lot of great ideas. I’ve got a few of my own ideas that I’d like to see as well. Read the rest of this entry »
Back From Vegas
January 13th, 2010It’s Wednesday morning and I’m back to work. I’ve not had a full work week since mid-December, and still won’t until the end of this month. That says something, considering we are on a 4/10 schedule. It’ll be odd when things finally get back to normal.
For the past week, I’ve been in Las Vegas, NV helping OverclockersClub.com cover the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show. If you have not seen OCC’s coverage, the guys did a heck of a job covering things related to the PC enthusiast market. I say the guys did a heck of a job, because truthfully I did very little by comparison. Sure, I was there to talk to people, and help out as needed but the pictures, writing, and hard work was pretty well covered by the other staff and not me. I feel bad for not doing as much work as the rest of the gang, but I did warn them ahead of time that I had neither a laptop nor a decent digital camera and yet somehow I was still asked to come. Read the rest of this entry »
Happy Birthday to my wonderful wife!
January 4th, 2010Over the weekend (01/02/2010) my wife celebrated her birthday. I’m not allowed to say how old she is, but she’s 6 months older than me! 
Happy Birthday Farrah! I love ya.
I’m sure she’ll get around to updating her blog sometime this millennium to show off her presents.
Apple Predictions for 2010
January 4th, 2010Everyone else is doing their 2009 and 2010 lists, so I figured I’d jump on the bandwagon. Here is my list of Apple predictions for 2010. Read the rest of this entry »
Happy New Year!
January 1st, 2010Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a great 2009 and has a better 2010. 
Is the Rocky Top Burger Shoppe Gone?
December 15th, 2009A while back I ruffled some feathers when I said that Rocky Top Burger Shoppe sucked. I was hoping that the new burger joint would have been a lot more like the awesome place it replaced, Gridiron Burgers. It didn’t and I wasn’t happy. In fact, I didn’t expect the new place to last longer than the summer.
Months came and went, and RTBS was still open. I don’t know how well it did, as it never looked too busy when I drove past, but then I also only gave it notice about half the time. Over the weekend I happened to give it notice, and I saw the lights were out and something was taped to the doors. Is RTBS dead?
If it is dead, I cannot say that I didn’t see this coming… though gotta give the place credit for hanging in there much longer than I expected. Hopefully a new, better tasting burger place will rise from the grill.
OCC’s 2009 Christmas Contest
December 15th, 2009If you haven’t gotten yourself entered in OCC’s 2009 Christmas Contest, you still have a few days left. The contest will officially end sometime on the evening of 12/24. Follow the instructions on the link above, and you’ll be entered. Those of you who are signed up for the OCC Newsletter or are fans of OCC on Facebook will get an additional entry for a total of three chances to win.
In addition to a kick ass gaming rig, you can also win a ton of stuff from Mushkin, ThermalTake, CoolerMaster, Sapphire, Asus, OCZ, VisionTek, Antec, and others. There is currently a total of 65 prizes available to win, and we may get some more added before the contest comes to an end. You never know. 
During last year’s Christmas contest (before I re-joined the staff) I won a Sapphire Radeon HD 4750!
It’s a kinda magic…
October 29th, 2009So, here I am with my new Apple Magic Mouse, which replaced my wired Mighty Mouse (now just called Apple Mouse). It’s certainly different, especially if you consider my pre-Apple time was usually spent with a Razer Diamondback mouse that had 7 buttons. As with any product I’ve ever used, there are things I like and things I don’t like.
I had already been planning on picking up a new mouse when the Magic Mouse was announced. With no way to clean the Apple Mouse, specifically the little scroll ball, it was constantly aggravating me. I’d say it was the worst Apple designed product, but then Apple has never had much luck with their mice. The Magic Mouse is heavier than my Apple Mouse, though that’s mainly due to the two AA batteries that power it. The scrolling is very nice and very responsive.
I’ll miss the mouse-expose feature, which occurred when you squeezed the sides of the Apple Mouse. That was something I used often, and unless an update is released that adds some kind of expose gesture, I’ll have to get use to activating it via the keyboard. Speaking of gestures, that’s something that so far I’ve found highly misrepresented with the Magic Mouse. I have yet to successfully trigger the double finger swipe navigation in Safari or in iPhoto, and that’s really the only gesture offered.
Hopefully it’ll offer more function later via a software update, but right now I’m thrilled to have a scrollable mouse.