I recently came across an offer from Amazon. Â They are now offering their Amazon Prime service for free to college students. Â I not a huge fan of Amazon Prime because of the price. Â If you are an active Amazon user you might find value in it, but I buy maybe 1 item a month from Amazon. Â The usual price is $79 a year to get 2 day shipping on everything Amazon sells. Â You can upgrade to next day shipping for #3.99 an item if you need your stuff faster. Â If are a current college student and have a .edu email address, Â you can go to http://www.amazon.com/gp/student/signup/info to sign up. Â For the low price of FREE I believe it’s worth the price.
Updated blog
14
Jul
Finally got around to updating the EclipseEmpire blog software. Â Now running WordPress 3.0 utilizing an MySQL 5 database. Â Had some trouble with my webhost during the upgrade but it all worked out. Â There is some text formatting issues on the old posts but at least they are still there! Â Stay tuned for some fresh content!
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New Podcast – Managing Your Digital Life
14
Mar
Andy Ihnatko and Scott Bourne have started a new podcast called Managing Your Digital Life found at mydl.me . According to the website :
“The Managing Your Digital Life Podcast & Blog is your destination for information on how to deal with all the electronic stuff you accumulate during your daily life. We’re here to answer questions like: What sort of hard drive should I buy? How do I create a backup plan? What’s the difference between backup and archive?
We’ll provide tips, tricks, news and reviews relevant to the most up-to-date storage, backup and archiving systems. Our goal is to help you take care of, manage, access and safely store/backup all your precious homework assignments, videos, photos, databases, music files and more.”
This sounds like a great podcast and I’m looking forward to it. The first episode is due out April 1, 2009.
Be sure to go to : www.mydl.me for more informaiton
OSX86 on an Eee 1000H
09
Nov
I have always been a huge fan of the 12″ Powerbook that Apple produced a few years ago. Once they made the transition to Intel chips, the 12″ was left to memory with only a 13″ Macbook left to satisfy the the small form factor need. Fast forward a few years and the deign genius’ at Apple introduced a lightweight version called the MacBook Air. Although they did trim the weight and thickness of the Macbook, they still stuck with a 13″ screen. Now the MacBook Air is very light, but still quite large if you need to carry it for hours at a time. We need a small, lightweight netbook that runs OSX. Read the rest of this entry »
How to listen to TWiT Live on your iPhone for free
02
Oct
Leo Laporte has started streaming the audio from TWiT Live on the Internet. Here is how you can use the free iPhone app FStream to listen live… Read the rest of this entry »
Smarter kids
28
Feb
I just watched a TED video by Gever Tulley on “5 dangerous things you should let your kids do”. It is great. He talks about giving kids the freedom to explore in order to make them stronger, smarter and actually safer. Watch the video after the break and more comments from me…
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New MacBook Pro / MacBook
27
Feb
Apple updated their MacBook and MacBook Pro lines today. I have the original MBP released 2 years ago. It is still very nice, but I do want a little more power. I currently have a 2GHz Core Duo with 2GB of RAM. My hard drive is only 80GB. I am constantly removing old podcasts and moving music and video to my NAS. Unlike most people who sell their old equipment to help pay for their new equipment, I now have to send it down to a family member. Ever since I switched to the Mac in 2003, I have praised the Mac goodness to my different family members. Now I have a niece that has a 12″ Powerbook, my sister and brother-in-law have a 17″ iMac (Intel), my sister has a new MacMini (Intel) and even my 9 year old son has a eMac. This has increased demand for Macs in my family. Before this, I would sell my 6 month – 1 year old technology on EBay to pay for the new stuff. Now there is a technology hierarchy in my family. So in order to get one of these new MacBook Pros, I will have to do it the old fashioned way, save. Well, its off to the coalmine!
New MacBook Air
16
Jan
Apple announced a new line of portable computers during Steve Jobs’ keynote speech at MacWorld San Fransisco today, the MacBook Air. The new line is a complement to the existing MacBook and MacBook Pro lines. Features of the new portable include being “the world’s thinnest notebook,” at 0.16″ to 0.76″ – thinner than the the thinnest part of a Sony TZ series laptop. Screen size is an LED backlit 13.3″ widescreen with a magnetic latch. The MacBook Air keyboard is MacBook-like, but with an ambient light sensor. The new machines feature a multi-touch trackpad, allowing the user to double-tap and move. Rotate a photo by pivoting your index finger around your thumb, as well as pinch & zoom. Additionally there’s a 45 Watt MagSafe power adapter, a Micro-DVI out as well as Audio Out, 802.11n + Bluetooth 2.1/EDR.There’s a 1.8″ hard drive for storage - either 80GB standard, or a 64GB SSD as an option. Intel shrunk the size of the Core 2 Duo chip by 60% to fit in the new machine. Battery life is approximately 5 hours. No optical drive is on the MacBook Air, but a SuperDrive accessory is available for $99. There’s also new software being released that allows the portable to “borrow” a Mac or PC’s optical drive. All models feature 2GB of memory standard.The case is fully aluminum (good for recycling), the first fully mercury and lead free display, circuit boards are BFR free, and retail packaging are 56% less volume than a MacBook.The new MacBook Air starts at $1799 is available for pre-order today, and is expected to be shipping in two weeks.
Check out www.mac-4-less.com for deals on all Macs!
New Mac Pro and XServe using Intel Penryn Chips
08
Jan
Apple today revised the MacPro and XServe with a new architecture and the recently released Penryn Processors. The Mac Pro combines two 45-nm Quad-Core Xeon processors running up to 3.2GHz and up to 4TB of internal storage. The standard 8-core configuration starts at $2799.
“The new Mac Pro is the fastest Mac we’ve ever made,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “With 3.2 GHz 8-core Xeon processing, a 1600 MHz front side bus and 800 MHz memory, the new Mac Pro uses the fastest Intel Xeon architecture on the market.”
The new Mac Pro features the latest Quad-Core Intel Xeon 5400 series processors based on 45nm Intel Core (Penryn) microarchitecture running up to 3.2 GHz, each with 12MB of L2 cache per processor. According to Apple, the 1600 MHz front side bus and 800 MHz DDR2 ECC FB-DIMM memory achives a 61 percent increase in memory throughput.The new Mac Pro comes standard with the ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT graphics card with 256MB of video memory. This also means great deals are coming on the Xeon line check out MacMall.com – The #1 Apple Direct Reseller for details. For deals on all Macs, check out http://Mac-4-Less.com
iPhone / iPod Touch theme
07
Jan
I have installed a new theme for all you iPhone and iPod Touch users. Here is what the site looks like on your device:
And for you Nintendo Wii users, there is a special theme for you also. (Sorry no screen shot)