Author: Marc

My mouse has a LASER

I recently picked up a Logitech MX-1000 wireless laser mouse and I am impressed with it: I'm using this at work and it's fantastic. Not having a wire is great because it doesn't catch on the little ridge in my keyboard tray. And...

General

Yahoo! announces Video Search

Yahoo! has announced Video Search is no longer beta. So what's changed in 1.0? We've partnered up with some major content publishers to fortify our content offering, including MTV, Buena Vista (including the latest clips and...

GadgetsPalmTreo

Treo 650 GSM owner? Get yourself a free 128 MB SD card!

No catch here. I ordered mine last night for $0 with $0 shipping. PalmOne is giving these out to make up for the snafu with NVFS, namely that it uses inefficient 512 byte clusters, which waste a ton of space for small files. Note...

Windows

Laptop acting up

My Toshiba A45-S250, an otherwise fine laptop which I love, started acting up a bit last night. My wife reported a lot of apps crashing randomly and a BSoD. It sounds a lot like a problem I was having several months ago where the...

GadgetsPalmTreo

Treo dialing freeze related to Initiate

Inititate (formerly Arrow Launcher) is a pretty cool launcher, but I think I found a problem with it I noticed on my unlocked Treo 650 with firmware 01.15 that dialing directly on the keypad (physical buttons; not the onscreen...

DreamHost

Dreamhost “777” promotion still active

Rumor is that DreamHost's "777" coupon code is still active. DreamHost's 777 promotion code allows new DreamHost customers to sign up for the basic plan, which normally costs $9.95/mo, at $0.77/mo for the first year. If you ask...

Gadgets

I got my Treo 650!

My Treo 650 arrived yesterday so I may be blogging less for a while... My initial impressions are very good (although I haven't yet activated the phone - I bought an unlocked model from PalmOne so I'm not tied to a carrier, will...