Archive for the ‘ gadgets ’ Category

First apps purchased

Twitter, Frame Calculator, Courier, Sound Cloud Thanks to the heads up by the people behind Mac Heist, there’s a Super Secret preferences pane just for those who purchased Tweetie that came with the Mac Heist bundle released a year ago. This is to be my first app download from the store. Tweetie, which was purchased [ READ MORE ]

The only app store you’ll need for your mac

Fire up that software update button and go up to 10.6.6 to be able to access the Mac App store from Apple. In true Apple fashion it is easy to navigate through the menu. Much like the iTunes store but for apps. All of the iWork, iLife and Aperture apps are available for purchase to [ READ MORE ]

My precioussssss!

I finally got my hands on my iPad. I only had to wait 6 days from the time I made the reservation at the store. The odd thing about the iPad is that you can’t pay cash with it. Up until recently. Anyhow I’ve had the iPad for almost two months now and I must [ READ MORE ]

Japanese washing machine and bidet

I’ve been able to do my share of laundry and seen all sorts of laundromats during my time but this takes the cake. I can assume that this is a large heavy duty washing machine where you can select the load on the left side and adjust for time and temperature of the water and [ READ MORE ]

Freeware PS3 Media Server

ps3mediaserver – Project Hosting on Google Code If you’re like me who doesn’t own a PC to stream media to the PS3 then this free alternative is a good idea. It runs on macs, PCs and Linux and developed on the Java platform. It’s fairly simple to use if you know your way around media [ READ MORE ]

Kindle comes to the PC

As more and more ebook services and devices are coming out. Amazon hasreleased the PC version of their famous Kindle. This now allows usersto read their ebooks on their desktop of laptop computer. It makes sensdoesn’t it? There the device and the iPhone version and now you canread books on your computer. Mac users are [ READ MORE ]

Japanese water heater and rice cooker

How hard can it be to heat water in Japan? Which button would you press? ;P Or cook rice?…Sooo which is the rice cooker and which is the water heater? I’m so confused. >&lt[ READ MORE ]

Seen in Macau: LED Billboards

Seen in Macau: LED Billboards, originally uploaded by mdelamerced. Not too far from the Ruins of St. Paul’s Cathedral is this LED billboard[ READ MORE ]

Super sized Nintendo DSi

Nintendo announced a few days ago a new extra large DSi. It will be first released in Japan with other regions to follow in 2010. It is originally meant for “older” gamers who want a bigger screen to read and more space to use the stylus. The DSi LL is about and inch larger than [ READ MORE ]

The “Nook” is impressive

Barnes and Noble today launched their ebook competitor to Sony and Amazon called the “Nook”. And I’m impressed. The photo from Gizmodo in my rumor blog about it last week was the real thing. Priced at $259, the same as the international edition of the Kindle 2 and the big things about it is the [ READ MORE ]

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