The Prediciment Over the years I’ve found myself using a combination of various audio equipment in my office including both basic home theatre speakers and large 1980s-ish Cerwin-Vega’s – basically I was spoiled. As you can imagine when it came time for me to downsize to a regular set of 2.1 computer speakers I was…
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Someone that I know (who I’ll leave anonymous so the world isn’t jealous of them) recently was in the market to purchase a home theatre setup. Their previous system was a full Bose surround system package that they managed to get a great deal on in the late 90s. Although a quick google search will…
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Even though I recently managed to squeeze more power out of my iPhone 3G, a few weeks ago I decided to bite the bullet and purchase an iPhone 4S. My journey with the iPhone 4S started out a bit rocky, and here’s why… MY THOUGHTS AFTER THE INITIAL ANNOUNCEMENT Initially when Apple made the announcement…
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Being a geek on a budget doesn’t mean that you can’t afford cases for your hardware, it also doesn’t mean that you can’t afford to outfit your home, office and car with iPhone docks and accessories. As a moderately “thrifty” (or as my brother says, cheap) guy you can count on me to explore the…
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In my dilemma about whether or not to upgrade my cell phone I mentioned at the end I was going to try to squeeze one more year out of my iPhone 3G by reinstalling it – it may have worked. This past weekend I decided to say goodbye to the apps I had installed and…
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Don’t sign a contract between March and June, it’s a bad idea – at least that’s what I’ve discovered. In March of 2009 I decided to treat myself to a new phone so I purchase an iPhone 3G. It was great and I was happy, until July rolled around. The iPhone 3GS was announced and…
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For years I’ve been an advocate of dumping Internet Exploer. My biggest problems have always been IE’s security issues and more importantly the way it tends not to properly render HTML correctly. Around 4 to 5 years ago I made the move to make Firefox my primary browser and never looked back. Aside from the…
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I’m sure it’s apparent that I am a very tech-oriented guy but what might not be so obvious is that I’m also a comic book fan. So I’m sure it’s no surprise that when the two of these cross, I get to be a very happy guy. For quite sometime I’ve been an advocate of…
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Those who know me know that I have an overly complicated audio setup that includes a sound mixer, XLR microphone, 3 sound cards, 2 computer and… well… it goes on and on. The reason for my convoluted setup is because I like to dabble in the art of podcasting and I figure go big or…
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PRODUCT SPECS 14.2 Megapixels 23.1 x 15.4mm Sensor DX Image Sensor THE CHOICE For quite some time I’ve been looking to purchase an SLR camera. Although my only real SLR experiences were with with Canon, I decided to explore both Canon and Nikon DSLR cameras. I should set it up that I’m not looking to…
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