April 2008
195 posts
Asus Eee PC plus Windows XP equals Best Buy →
Hardly a day goes by when we don’t hear some news item about everyone’s favorite mini-notebook, the Asus Eee PC. While the current $399 Eee PC runs Linux and comes preloaded with most of…
March 2008
199 posts
Offline access to Google Docs →
Posted by Janani Ravi, Software Engineer Our team has a real affinity for free-spirited types, and so we spend a lot of time thinking up ways to make Google Docs friendlier even to people on the…
10 Years of Mozilla! →
No Monday blues around here today — it’s Mozilla’s 10 year anniversary! On March 31, 1998 Mozilla was officially launched and the Mozilla source code became publicly available for the…
BlackBerry 9000 first impressions →
Waiting for that BlackBerry 9000, are you? The secret BGR phone line just rang, and it was one of RIM ninjas! Here’s what they had to say about the BlackBerry 9000 and the pros and cons of…
BlackBerry Curve 8330 launching on Verizon in May... →
Filed under: Handsets, RIM, Verizon Wireless, EV-DO, CDMA
After seeing it kicked around the Net for a few months, it’s good to see the BlackBerry Curve 8330 finally go…
Verdict: that last single DIDN’T retroactively ruin the older stuff as I originally thought.
The track ‘Buddy Holy’ will forever be associated with Windows 95. Ah the good old days.
Stopped listening to the ‘Macbreak Weekly’ episode about Weezer so I could listen to their first album.
Watched the first 30 minutes of THX1138 on youtube before going to Target. Everyone seems really weird.
iPhone firmware 2.0? New screenshot walkthrough! →
As you may or may not have heard, there’s this new iPhone firmware build, 2.0, that’s just been seeded to developers. We’ve got a hold of it, and we’re going to show you the new features…
Iceland Woos Data Centers As Power Costs Soar →
call-me-kenneth writes “Business Week covers the soaring demand for power and cooling capacity in data centers. Electricity consumption for US data centers more than doubled between 2000 and 2006….
3 Blogs
I’ve had so much fun with tumblr that I’ve neglected my other blogs. As a result, steve.sizemoresr.com has kind of turned in to a mix of family photos, twitter, links, google news items, etc. To clean things up a bit, I’ve decided to make more of an effort to update my family blog (sizemoresr.com/mt). The intended audience for this blog is extended family members and friends...
Watch“guinea pig”
Really enjoying the new video camera. Much easier than DV. Thanks for the tip, Brian.
Just got passed by a smart car. (out running errands)
First Military Pilot Review of the F-35 Strike... →
WatchVia merlinmann: HR Check-in
F-22 Raptor Airframes Falling Apart Due to Bad... →
According to a just-released Air Combat Command report, 30 of the F-22A Raptors delivered by Lockheed Martin use “inadequate adhesive” in their airframes. That means two things in plain…
Mercilessly cut back the trees in front of the house and bleached the vinyl siding.
Check it out the google homepage is blacked out. http://www.google.com
WatchDriving to Data Center in my Prius
Finished uploading some videos to vimeo.
WatchAdele sings “Praise Him” with bridge into “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.”
Dell PowerEdge Expandable RAID Controller 4/Di... →
9000 series in August? →
We’ve heard a ton about the rumored 9000 series since last November, when our pals at Boy Genius Report found out that it is in the offing. However, we’ve seen plenty of mixed signals since…
Black Centros in AT&T stores →
Filed under: Handsets, Palm, ATT, Palm OS, GSM, EDGE Great news: the more business-friendly alternative to the white / green wild child is filtering into an AT&T store…
Sirius, XM reps chat up FCC, post-merger pricing... →
Filed under: Portable Audio
With that little Department of Justice business out of their way, Sirius and XM have unsurprisingly been quick to start chatting up the all-important FCC,…
BlackBerry 9000 in the wild →
Filed under: Handsets, Features, RIM, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS
Okay, we’ll admit, the first thought on our minds when we saw the BlackBerry 9000 in its natural habitat …
My kids are being extra adorable tonight. How did they know that’s what I needed?
BlackBerry 9000 delayed until July/August? →
We’re not really sure where to go with this one. An August release for the BlackBerry 9000? We’ve heard it may actually be that far away. Let us also clarify: the BlackBerry 8xxx, the one…
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Bigger Eee PC will have touch screen, GPS →
(Credit: DailyTech)
The second generation of the Asus Eee PC, which we first wrote about earlier this month, will apparently include a few more features unseen on its predecessor. …
ASUS' 9-inch Eee PC 900 hits the FCC with full... →
Filed under: Laptops
Eee fans, your second-wildest dream has just come to pass. ASUS’ next version of the mini-laptop has hit the FCC, and we’ve got the pictures to prove it. Yes, as…
Comcast readying 11 HD newcomers for Portland,... →
Filed under: Cable, New content
Just months after Verizon expanded its FiOS TV service to reach even more of the greater Portland area, Comcast is making moves in a presumed attempt…
Official: ASUS 8.9-inch Eee PC will include... →
Filed under: Laptops
Here we have it, confirmation that the second generation Eee PC will in fact feature an 8.9-inch (resistive) touchscreen display. Kevin Lin, ASUS VP of Sales,…
Comcast, Time Warner, Sprint, and Clearwire could... →
Filed under: Industry
As unlikely as this sounds, rivals Time Warner Cable and Comcast are apparently in talks with Sprint and Clearwire over establishing a nationwide WiMAX…
At Naval Air Warfare Center. Cool sounding name.
The Pentagon has a channel. Who knew?
HD DVD Review: Terminator 2: Judgment Day... →
Many cite ‘Terminator 2: Judgment Day’ as one of the greatest sequels ever, with even diehard fans of the franchise rating it higher than 1984’s cult classic ‘The Terminator.’ I would never try to…
CNET Insider Secrets: Run Ubuntu in Windows off a... →
Why? If you have to ask, this is probably not the project for you. I’m sure it has practical uses, but I just enjoyed making it work.
Find this video and more like it on CNET TV.
XM/Sirius Merger: What Happens to My Current... →
The XM/Sirius merger is all but rubber-stamped. Obvious question: Will this new hybrid with cheaper, shinier programming come in on my current gear? Yes and no. If you keep your old radio,…
Met Cameron at Starbucks. Getting ready to head to Orlando.
Really impressed with Ubuntu. Time to sleep.
Attempting to resize my xp partition on my Air National Guard laptop.
Downloading Ubuntu 8.04 beta
Happy Birthday to Mac OS X! →
Filed under: OS, Cult of Mac, Apple, Apple History
This weekend marked a very special date as Mac OS X turned 7 years old. Mac OS X was launched on March 21, 2007. Throughout…
Amazing. My 12” Powebook survived. On the 3rd day, the laptop booted back into OSX!
I’m glad I wasn’t too hard on my son.