HTC Wizard

Also known as the T-Mobile MDA for T-mobile USA, or more recently, my new phone. Expect a post on the device and Pictures, up later today.

I’m Up on Engadget

Everyone should check engadget. I sent them a tip and its on the front page. Check it out

Engadget and the rest of Weblogs INC.

I don’t know for sure, but I believe Engadget and Engadget Mobile are both down, or loading very poorly. OH!, what will us gadget lovers do.

[update] – Engadget is back up. Thank the gods

Love!!

Love!!

Originally uploaded by fanz.

Lions Love.

Coming Soon….

Soon, I’ll be blogging not only about college life and Technology, but also my travels.

Also, for technology, major announcements such as partner deals, gadget releases, product announcements, etc… will start going up. Not to many, thats what engadget is for, but really big ones, like a really hot notebooks (literally and figuretively, looking at you Apple)
or new Phones. I don’t think I’ll put up rumors unless they are really big and possible, so no Video iPod crap.

Thanks to anyone subscribing to the RSS feed and checking the blog daily. You guys are great.

looking up

looking up

Originally uploaded by nj dodge.

I’m sorry this was Today’s (Tuesday). I’ll post monday’s up

Microsoft Panther?

Microsoft Panther?

Originally uploaded by Changa_Lion.

this is pretty funny, its a geek joke though

Mac Book Pro

I’ll buy a Mac Book Pro probably under a few conditions

1) I can get it around $1800 (Possible)
2) The next gen Mac Book Pro has no Heat Issues like Burning a hole through my pants
3) Runs Leopard and has Merom
4) It fully supports a right-click
5) some explains to me how to properly uninstall a program

I’d get a Mac Book Pro if these things we’re somehow magically placed in my lap. Or some dumb saying like that.

Arche de Moniteur

Arche de Moniteur

Originally uploaded by koolsmoky.

’nuff said

Why Apple makes me sad

Apple is a business that makes me quite sad. They have a great product, Mac OS X, but there are so many issues with what Apple does in terms of Hardware and Software that quite irk me.

On the hardware side there is mostly their notebooks (Yes and the iPod which is a beast of its own). Now yes there new Mac Books are fairly economical, but the Mac Book Pros are exorbitantly overpriced. Yes they have a few interesting features and the design is rather nice, but nothing that warrants the sometimes $1000+ over the competition, its ridculous. On top of that First-Gen Apple products simply have huge flaws in them. Now look at there Mac Books and Mac Book Pros, they have serious heat issues, so much so in the manual they say “do not place on lap, may cause burns”. When I pay that much money for a “portable computer” I would like it to actually cool my lap not heat it up, if I were going to pay $3000 dollars. And I’m sorry but all the white, and monotone is not very interesting after the first 4 minutes. If you wanted to be really creative take, approach the iMac the same way the Xbox 360 does it, or have at least 3 different colors or something. Apple (like anyone at Cupertino is reading this), if you are marketing towards the Youth demographic, allow them to add their own personality to the machine, sell Swarovski kits, and faceplates or something. The whiteness is almost like a walled garden solution. I understand that other laptop companies don’t do any sort of true customization, but if you want to be different, shouldn’t you Apple?

The same goes for there Software. Look iTunes as a piece of software is okay, but the iTunes music store, I’m sorry, DRM is not my style. And if I subscribe to a podcast, like engadget’s why should I have to have acces to the music store enabled. Let me use it like Banshee or Amarok. And add support for FLAC and OGG, you tout your Open Source roots, give back and contribute if you can (which you can). And Jobs dude, do you like the beach or something, get rid of that damn Beach Ball, make the software a little bit more optimized it isn’t that hard for you geniuses (hah i made a really geek pun, hah a geeky pun is a gun, BANG!). And when a user hits X and closes an application, close the application, kill the process. Add something to minimize to the dock, don’t assume we want that piece of software open. Change the dock, people don’t want ever app on the dock, and we don’t want to open up finder to open an App. And Build an uninstall wizard, other wise the configuration registry is going to be full of junk. And My biggest gripe. Okay, so Apple you’re finally x86, release your software for anyone to us, not just for use on Apple Machines. Get out of the hardware business and compete with Windows and Linux like they do. Ubuntu isn’t known for sexy laptops, its known for a super stable operating system.

As for Apple’s Open Sourceness, don’t steal ideas (XGL and Window’s Aero) and then say ooooo look at us we are doing something based on Open Source, when many a times you are stealing there very ideas and only slightly improving upon it. If you want something truly innovative, look at the BumpTop ( I can guarantee, that Apple will have something like this).

I know most of these things have been said before, but It irks me that Simple things like Auto-Playlists in iTunes isn’t out of the box, you have to install a third party app to get iTunes to do it. And why doesn’t the iPod support higher bitrates? Because the user experience is what Apple wants you to have, not what people necessarily want. Apple if you open up just a little more to people creating their own experience, you will make Microsoft run for the high grounds. Its as simple as that.

Rasberries

Rasberries

Originally uploaded by dopiaza.

Tasty rasberries of tastiness

Amarok

splash_screen

Originally uploaded by andreyev_br.

A great piece of software. If it were on Windows it would be the iTunes Killer.

Waldorf=Astoria Lamps

Waldorf=Astoria Lamps

Originally uploaded by whatisee.

I’ve been to this hotel its pretty awesome.

Gummy: Flickr Photo of the Day

Gummy

MMMM…… sorry though about the exposure.

Mmmm chocolate

Mmmm chocolate

Originally uploaded by Varyamo.

tasty

Palm Treo 700w

Palm Treo 700w

Originally uploaded by MobileBurn.

Ahhh handhelds

For saturday

Red rose

Red rose / Rosa roja

Originally uploaded by victor_nuno.

This Friday’s and Wenesday’s Flickr Photo of the Day(s)

Times Square: Flickr Photo of the Day

Originally uploaded by Air Milikay.

Heres todays yesterday’s is coming tomorrow or thursday. Thats just when i’ll have the pictures ready. Sorry dudes (and dudettes)

Half-Life 2 Menu (Citadel): Flickr Photo of the Day

Originally uploaded by banapaulo.

One of the Greatest Games ever. If by 2010 there is a game better than this one,I’ll public announce that i’m not awesome.

T-Mobile MDA

T-Mobile MDA

Originally uploaded by MobileBurn.

I getting one of these. Has Wi-FI which is what i need the most.