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I am loving it more and more...

RSS Player is a great podcast downloader and player app - much better than the iPod's podcasting download system (one episode at a time)

The NY Times app also updated yesterday and it is GREAT now - much faster, slick interface, and very good for news.

Amazon just released a Kindle for iPod app that allows you to nail books (no periodicals though) through the Kindle Store.

Pandora, the music player that bases its stations based on the Music Genome project's similar artists concept - magical!

And there is a Public Radio player app that allows you to choose from MANY different public radio stations to stream.

The iPod is getting very cool!

Getting interesting, sirs...

I don't remember if this has been done before.

From the future makers of Chuck - so I watched the pilot - a bunch of rich kids that party too much, parents that are way into careers and whatnot, and a troubled kid that somehow winds up in the mix. Up to episode 1-04 now - it kinda pulls you in. The entire first season is up on Hulu, of course

In an effort to free space on my C Drive I decided to move my Music folder to the D Drive - right click, Location, Move, Choose, Go...

And it froze up.

Hmmm... So I killed Explorer, noted I still had the full and complete Music folder on C, had some files on D, but not all. Renamed the newly not-all-the-way moved iTunes folder on D (just in case it deleted as it moved), and started it all over again - and it went. Unfortunately, as close as I can figure, I aimed the Music folder to be moved to the root of D - and now instead of a Music folder pointer on C taking me to D and my iTunes library being intact, I get a D drive Icon that takes me to the D drive and my iTunes library. iTunes won't even startup without the folder path being straight!

After a few Google events that led to nowhere, I come up with a desperate plan to save my iTunes install - I somehow managed to get the D drive to "restore original location" and it pointed back to C:/username/Music, so I nailed that, then it said do I want to move files, I said no, then I had the Music folder back in the username folder. Make a D:/Music folder, slide my iTunes stuff there, - right click on the username/Music folder and search for location, point to the D Drive,  and point at it. Success, but a whole lot harder than it had to be.

Moral of the story is don't move a special folder to the root of a drive - you will not like the way it comes out.

I posted earlier about such a situation, but I am considering trying to combine my 30 gig C drive with my 30 gig D drive (also has about 20 gigs locked up in formatting and the like and the install partition that Acer threw on there). Has anyone here used Gparted to mash two partitions together like that? Data loss? I was thinking of emptying the D, delete it, and then expand the c to fill the rest of the drive. Any thoughts? Kinda nervous, as I don't want to have to reinstall.

Just purchased some thumping $25 Altec Lansing speakers with a subwoofer and hooked them to the laptop/desktop and am thumping the ambient from Pandora through them. Awesome... I have loved ambient jams forever - starting with Tangerine Dream, and here it is, in it's screaming goodness. Yes!

Many years ago in a forum that I can no longer access I came upon a pair of HTML and WebTV knowledgeable soon to be 21 year olds, and I posted and learned with them. Then they turned 21 and left - and that seems to be about 10 years ago now.

Happy birthday, Sal. Doesn't seem like I have known you that long.

My main computing device currently shifts back and forth from the Touch to the Acer laptop. The laptop I have kept next to my chair in the carry bag that the daughter let me have (she never used it), plugged in almost all the time. When I would use it I would snag a table leaf, drape it over the two arms of the chair, and then prop the laptop there. Instead of being more portable, I was less. I would take it here and there about the house and the such, but I have not been one for leaving the house with it much.

Enter the Touch. Way portable and has quite the few capabilities, albeit somewhat less than what the laptop can do. Cool. I actually take it with me much of the time, can look at video, listen to music (and some streams), YouTube, read textfiles, a few games... an awesome gap filler for when things are boring.

Anyway, I think I am going to try setting the laptop up somewhere I can keep it - the boy's desk. I can have it set up and use the heck out of it, I can pack it up and go if I need to, and I can use the Touch for normal day to day stuff. I can also use the net cable that is already run to the boy's room and run Ubuntu on the other hard drive (wifi issues).

Total impulse buy, but this thing is way cool!

I love having a wifi enabled browser that is so small and usable. The DS's browser is so far behind this... Much faster, although still no flash. There is a YouTube app that works great. They just dropped a developer's kit, so third party apps should be dropping directly.

So far, I like, allot.

The Asus Eee PC is SOOOO sexy I wanna get one. Too bad I just got a laptop about two weeks before this came out. I had been hearing about them since July, but they kept putting off release. A little bigger than a DVD case. No crap.

http://www.nbc.com/Chuck/video/episodes.shtml

YEAH!

So here I sit with my Vista Basic (no Aero interface) powered laptop - I currently have the memory of my low end Acer laptop maxed at 2 gigs. I killed the cool-daddy paint job and fade-in menus and fluff, and I usually use my thumbdrive that is Readyboost enabled to try and keep things running fast, and it may be placebo effect, but overall, the puter seems to give decent performance.

The clarseic view seems about the same as I would expect from most gui'd computers.

I like the wifi - has a button to turn on and off wifi access, and it auto recognizes connections that are open or that have been set up in the past. Nice.

The main beef I currently have with the system is that it doesn't accept my settings - I cut video down to high color from true color. On reboot, back to true color. Irfanview - I am a loyal user for something like 10 years - you would think there would be a way to tell the UAC (User access Control) to allow the thing to run without the "should we run this" popup EVERY TIME I TRY TO USE IT. You can right click the exe and set "run as administrator", but it, once again, doesn't take. I can kill UAC, and i think I might. Maybe that will help out some.

Been doing Die Hard a bit today - here is Nakatomi Plaza from the first movie, via Google Maps:

Google Maps - Nakatomi Plaza

digisal - The GoodWill

This place still open and do you go there, Sal?

There is a guy I know who approached me looking for copies of DOS 6.22 - he is way old school.

Anyway, I didn't have DOS, but I had an original copy of Windows 95 A spread across something like 17 floppies. I upped it, as we don't have anything that will run such an old os (drivers, baby - it's all about the drivers).

I also looked about and found two 1.2 gig hard drives (Boot-And-Nuked and formatted up for use) and a copy of Windows 98 SE (tried to install that on the old eMachine, but it wouldn't go). Upped them to the cause, and the guy was in hog heaven. I just love handing off old geekables to someone who is going to have a great time with them.

The boy is looking into his "dream laptop". He is leaning towards a Mac laptop and says he wants to do Windows XP via Parallels or whatever. Got me thinking about emulation again.

Awhile back I managed to get Mac OS 7.5.5 running on my 433 HP laptop via Basillisk II. You basically make a disk image and then use Basillisk to access it, copy over and install Mac OS 7.5.3 and then upgrade that to 7.5.5. It was fun to mess with, but I couldn't get the networking going, and without internet access, crap just isn't as fun as it could be.

Anywho, found reference to another Mac emulator called SheepShaver which can allow you to run up to OS 9.0.4. Hmmm.

The bad thing is both emulators require a ROM image.

Also, was thinking about a Hackintosh - shoehorning Mac OS X__ onto a non-Apple Intel puter. Hmmm...

8bitpeoples Has a bunch of MP3's of music made with Game Boy, NES, etc... Lotsa trance kinda stuff and there is a Christmas cd on here, too.

So here I am watching the Vanilla Ice flick "Cool as Ice".

One major plot point escapes me - when the family of the love interest who is in the witness protection program realizes that they are compromised why didn't they call the cops and get gone?

I give it  O0   O0   O0   O0   O0   O0 - 5 afro-smileys out of 8 because of the cultural significance.

There is a downloadable version of a 40's era broadcast of "It's A Wonderful Life" with Jimmy Stewart and all. Very cool listen.

Boing! Boing! - It's A Wonderful Life

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