Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category
Friday, April 30th, 2010
On my way to northern Indianapolis the other day I passed by a billboard that had a surprising image plastered on it. I was driving so it was rather difficult to get a picture at the same time, but I managed. The billboard belongs to none other than our webhost. Hostgator. I thought this was pretty crazy!
Hostgator is expanding big time, so it’s no surprise they have to advertise. I really didn’t expect to see anything like this around here in Indianapolis. Hooray for green hosting!
If they pique your interest, definitely grab a cheap hosting plan. Hostgator has been great to us over the last couple years, so I definitely recommend them to anyone looking for affordable webhosting.
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Saturday, March 27th, 2010
The folks over at Redmond have finally decided to unlock those USB ports on the Xbox 360. April 6th 2010, Microsoft will release a software update for the Xbox 360. The update will enable the console to see USB mass storage drives! You will have the ability to move media to the drive or to the 360. The catch 22 is that only 16 gigabytes are supported per external disk. You can use two USB devices at once, but each can only be 16 gigs in size. Kind of a bummer if you ask me, but it’s a start.
Microsoft will be partnering with SanDisk for a branded drive in May that will come preconfigured for the Xbox 360.
More images can be found at Major Nelsons Flickr. http://www.flickr.com/photos/majornelson/sets/72157623576662307/
Posted in Gaming, Tech News, Technology, Xbox 360 | No Comments »
Monday, September 28th, 2009
Well the last article I put up for this feature I had stated it was going to be weekly. I apologize for not following through but there wasn’t exactly a huge influx of setups. So today we have the gracious site builder’s setup in all its glory.
This setup is pretty much sweet simple and straight to the point. You can see a somewhat aged MBP what appears to be a Logitech g5 mouse and a Wacom Intuos3 tablet. Also a wrt54g running tomato, iTouch 2nd gen, & a PSP running custom firmware. By all means I must say this desk is fairly clean and straightened up. I will be the first to tell you I cleaned my work area for the first article and it wouldn’t surprise me if this desk has been cleaned up as well. That’s all for this week feel free to send any submissions with details to snowman@knoxware.org
Posted in Featured, Mac, Technology, iPod Touch, inspiration | 1 Comment »
Saturday, September 19th, 2009
Following up with parts 3, 2, and 1 - I finally received my replacement TruePower battery from FastMac. I can honestly say I probably wouldn’t have this battery by now if it hadn’t been for me E-mailing the utter crap out FastMac. Let me recap just in case you missed something, or if you’d rather not read all 3 parts. Back in June of 2009 I had an issue with a MacBook Pro battery from FastMac. The battery lost all of it’s cycles, dropped it’s charge, and then came back to life. When the battery came back to life, several cells died, they became swollen and dead. This resulted in an unbelievable amount of power loss. I contacted FastMac to get a replacement since I was under warranty. This was in the last two weeks of June. They told me there would be a back-order until the beginning of July 2009, roughly three weeks, FastMac informed me. This was fine with me. I was out of town, so two weeks went by. I shipped the package out, they received the package one week after I had shipped it. This was the cap of the three week waiting period. So I expected a quick turn around and to have my battery replaced shortly.
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Posted in Apple, Blogroll, Mac, Technology | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
Today Apple released iPhone OS 3.1 along side iTunes 9. One of the big new features of iTunes and OS 3.1 is iTunes application management. The user is now able to manage their iPhone / Touch applications in iTunes 9. Here is a quick video sample of the management UI in action.
So far the system works great. I haven’t found any issues as of yet. I just wish we had the option to hide unwanted pre-installed applications that we don’t use.
Posted in Apple, Blogroll, Mac, Tech News, Windows, iPhone, iPod Touch | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
Apple released iTunes 9 today. Here is a first look at some of the changes.
More images after the jump.
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