Archive for February, 2008

If you want HD movies on the cheap, Best Buy is clearancing the Xbox 360 HD-DVD Player for $49.99. Microsoft promises they will maintain the full warranty on the drive, and you can use it with a PC, too.
While the future of HD-DVD movie production is still unclear, it may make a comeback for the [...]

It’s time for the big fight everyone has been waiting for… pitting a new MacBook Air against a three-year-old 12-inch PowerBook G4. Notice, when Apple launched the MacBook Air, they did not compare it to the product it was perceived to have replaced. Users have been clamoring Apple to make a 12-inch MacBook Pro since [...]

Remember, these prices aren’t online (the links show the product pages, so you can check availability in the store). Also, note that the prices will vary from store-to-store based on Best Buy’s tiered clearance pricing system.
Pioneer 18x External USB 2.0 DVD Burner
SKU 8293928 - $79.99 ($99.99 Pre-clearance)
Swiss Gear Maxxum Backpack (Yes, a new one…)
SKU 2826446 [...]

Best Buy employees don’t like you. You are enlightened. You know how to game the Best Buy clearancing system.
Why don’t they like you? Because Best Buy employees have, for years, padded their wallets by buying up all the clearance items… not just in their own store, but in every store near them. After all, they [...]

Memtest86+ was updated to version 2.01 today. The ultimate memory tester added several new features to its battery of memory tests… but one in particular stands out: Mac support.
The application is one of the most recognized software diagnostic tools on the planet. Based on its less-updated competitor, Memtest86 (no plus), the application runs test after [...]

This is a review of a designer for WordPress, E.Webscapes Design Studio. They did the current PhoneNews.com look and feel which I hired them to do.
E.Webscapes’s lead designer wrote the book on WordPress… literally. But, that’s not the main reason that we chose them over at PhoneNews.com, we quoted several designers on their past work, [...]

One of my big gripes with Price Protectr (okay, fine, I don’t have any big gripes… it’s a small one), is that it didn’t let you go back in time and add a purchase that you made, say, four of five days ago.
True, Price Protectr lets you chose a different date, but the options were [...]

My Windows Home Server got sick, and I lost all the PC backups. The backup database became corrupted, and while I tried all of Microsoft’s suggestions… only the last one worked. And, of course, the last one is to tell WHS to erase all PC backups in its matrix.
Worse, I was replacing a hard drive [...]

No joke, I did, years ago. Microsoft had an idea contest for ways to make better use of MSN Direct, and yeah, I sent in the “most compelling case” for MSN Direct on Windows Mobile, and Microsoft thanked me by giving me the win for the contest.
The pitch was basically what Apple did with iPhone, [...]

Mozy for Mac has been updated to version 0.9.2.0. This update reflects their Release Candidate 2 milestone.
Remember, Mozy gives everyone a free 2 GB of backup storage, and unlimited backup storage (per machine) is only $5 per month. Use the link below, and they’ll bump that up to 2.25 GB of free storage.
And, in [...]