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Technology & Gadgets

Logitech Harmony 890 review

This is an awesome remote with a huge HAF and WAF (Husband Acceptance Factor and Wife Acceptance Factor). I’m really please with it after using it for a week. I really don’t have any remotes hanging around anymore, and not have to point the remote at the device is huge, especially with multi-device macros and sequences. Looking at my pros and cons, it looks like I don’t like it, but it really is one of the best recent gadgets I’ve bought!

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Ditching the E61

Here’s why I ordered myself a BlackBerry 8707v from eBay (3G, quad GSM) and am ditching the E61.

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Technology & Gadgets

Finally, PlayFair and iTunes 7.xx cracked again

My old favorite, iOpener, stopped working as of iTunes 6. With all the hubbub about the cracks, someone actually put a decent user interface it, called MyFairTunes6 . It’s really slow, and doesn’t work as well as iOpener, but it does work to convert .m4p’s to .m4a’s.

Still needs work:

  1. Better than real time conversion like iOpener would be nice.
  2. Conversion to same compression ratio (lossiness) would be nice.
  3. Telling iTunes where to find the new cut would be nice. 
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Technology & Gadgets

Air chair

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Personal

Halloween

Me and my brother Borat.

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Personal

Famous last words

I like Marie-Antoinette’s….

Read them all here .

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Personal

Yes, you can use your frequent flyer miles for this…

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Technology & Gadgets

Top 10 BitTorrent sites

Blogged here .

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Personal

Set for EuroBusiness… Cheap calls via E61, SIP, Airport Express, prepaid calling card

Well, I’m getting ready for another trip, and have set up my gadgets to make calling cheap.

  • I’ve setup my Nokia E61 to talk to my Apple Airport Express. This means that any hotel room with an Ethernet connection (most!) becomes my cheap calling system (Gizmo is my SIP provider). I chose the Airport Express because of its size and portability. As one commenter on my blog points out, it is actually easy to make this work by using an intermediary SIP trunk provider (pbxes.com).
  • For cell service, I’m abandoning my Cingular number for a United Mobile number (Lichenstein-based) which offers free incoming calls, and relatively inexpensive outgoing calls. There is a catch, calls TO my number are expensive, regardless of originating location or service (about $1.50/minute). So to preserve my family calls, Cassie will only be using the SIP setup above.
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Ordered Canon Rebel XTi

As I suspected, Canon is bringing its 10 Megapixel CMOS sensor to the Digital Rebel line . I preordered mine from Amazon .

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Despite the many rebates Canon has been offering in the past couple of months (down to $500 for the Rebel XT body-only), I could not bring myself to buy an SLR to move up from 7.1 Megapixels (SD550) to 8 Megapixels, and I didn’t want the size of the 5D or its price.

This is ideal!