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!
Author: Dave
He was born in Canada, but currently lives in Boulder, CO up in Boulder Heights.
Ditching the E61
Here’s why I ordered myself a BlackBerry 8707v from eBay (3G, quad GSM) and am ditching the E61.
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:
- Better than real time conversion like iOpener would be nice.
- Conversion to same compression ratio (lossiness) would be nice.
- Telling iTunes where to find the new cut would be nice.
Air chair
Famous last words
I like Marie-Antoinette’s….
Read them all here .
Top 10 BitTorrent sites
Blogged here .
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.
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 .
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!