The entertainment industry is shifting. Video games dominate all forms of media as an estimated 46 billion dollar industry. Your local video chain likely carries as many video games as it does DVDs. Blueray has beaten HD-DVD as the new media for watching movies at home, but it has the potential to be squashed by digital downloads. Not watching movies on your computer, but rather watching them on a box that is already hooked up to your entertainment system: your gaming console.
Here’s what I’d like to see changed about the Xbox 360
The news du jour is Microsoft Home Server (blog of developer here, product page here, TechMeme coverage).
This is a great product idea, if properly executed. I consider myself a “tech power user” and I already have a home server setup where I mirror backups across multiple computers and stream media to my Xbox 360. This [...]
RedFlagDeals has a nice round up of all of the boxing day deals in Canada. The already have all of the boxing day flyers online. And they offer a nice reminder that some of the online store sales have started tonight (Future Shop, Best Buy, NCIX).
Online shopping is the way to go as you avoid [...]
Federated Media has gotten gadget reviews from several bloggers together under one roof.
A collaboration between nine tech-savvy bloggers, the Federated Media Holiday Gadget Guide aims to get readers up to speed on the must-have devices, electronic toys, and other can’t-miss gifts of the 2006 holiday season. The Guide will also assist readers in weighing their [...]
The Microsoft Zune is available for purchase and now the age old battle of rivals has entered the digital music player market. Which is better? I have an iPod and I’ve never laid my hands on a Zune, so rather than repeat web hyperbole I’ll link to it instead.
(This is pure fanboyism. I’m not going to lie to you, it could get a little ugly and/or boring.)
I love my Logitech Harmony Remote 628. I bought it at half-price on one of those crazy online Boxing Day sales last year. I bought it knowing it was an older model, but not caring because I [...]
I’m another one of those bloggers who got a free cellphone, and while mine wasn’t as shiny and new as Joel’s (and for damned sure the service provider Rogers didn’t foot the bill), I know I did complain about it. His rant takes the cake though.
I like the idea of getting free stuff. But if [...]
Will cellphone music players replace gadgets like the iPod?
I sure took my time writing part four of this series. It’s bad when you need to apply “Getting to Done” on your hobbies. In this part of the series I’ll be covering freeware applications, battery life and updating the firmware on your phone.
Synopsis:
How to synchronize with Google Calendar.
Battery life good, but not great.
Music [...]
Because I just know I’m going to lose the instructions.
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Charging
Headphones
blinks blue
fast, blinks blue
fast, blinks red
solid orange
Wireless Adapter
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solid red
fast, blinks red
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Sale on Logitech Headphones at BestBuy (and info on how to fix them)
On the surface, Best Answering Machine seems like a great idea. Modern smartphones easily have the capability to act as their own voice-mail. The only reason why it isn’t provided by default is because of collusion between cellphone manufacturers and cell service providers. But the implementation of Best Answering Machine on the Nokia 6682 is utterly horrible for one reason: it plays the recorded message on the loudspeaker as the caller leaves the message. Voice-mail playback is on the loudspeaker as well.
This is driving me nuts. What I’m looking for should be too hard to find, but for some reason I can’t get my hands on it.
There are two things I want:
First: An application for S60/Symbian/J2ME phones that can read web pages or RSS feeds OFFLINE. I live in a draconian part of the world that [...]
Best Buy (Canada) has Logitech Bluetooth headphones for iPod for $30 again ($170 off). These headphones are known to be bad for snapping in the back (have been discontinued by Logitech for this reason), but for $30 I’m willing to take the risk. You can get another 10% off if you buy a harddrive based [...]
This is part three of a series. I will be talking about
text entry,
editing contacts,
synchronizing contacts,
using the camera for photos and video
(including sample photos and videos),
image quality,
and connecting a Bluetooth headset.
In this part of the series, I’ll be talking about
the wrist band (horrible, can scratch your display),
Nokia PC Suite software,
Lifeblog software,
and the prepackaged phone application
clock and
mp3 music player
What would I do if I had a flat data rate cost on my new EDGE smartphone? I’d use a version of last.fm/pandora for my mobile phone. This is how mobile phones could use the fact that they are internet enabled with equivalent speeds to some broadband networks to compete with proper MP3 players and satellite radio.
Auto-discovery of music you like based on OTHER music you’ve liked is big/will be big.
I got a new cellphone, and I’m going to talk about it to death. This is the first part of a five part series, and I think this is the best review you’ll find the Nokia 6682 cellphone because unlike all those other gadget/phone reviewers, I will be using this phone every day for the [...]
This is just a quick update to say that matchstick.ca is good on their word and I now have a Nokia 6682 phone in my hands. Expect something more indepth on the subject when I’ve had a few days to play with it.
//engtech � matchstick.ca is giving away Nokia 6682 Phones in Ottawa, Toronto and [...]
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Friday Feedback: What is the worst tech gear you’ve ever bought?
We’ve all done it. Whipped out the plastic in the heat of the moment without doing the proper research, and then kicked ourselves for months afterwards as problem after problem reared it’s ugly head. You tell me yours, and then I’ll tell you mine. Here’s a hint: it involved BestBuy, Boxing Day and not realizing [...]