May 2006
Message Board
May 28, 2006
I added a new AJAX based
Message Board
page today, so if you have any questions, comments or ideas, drop
me a message there and I'll respond as soon as I see any new posts!
New
Podcast
too!
It's summer, get out there and wash and polish those
cars!
Summer Fun!
May 22, 2006
School's out, summer jobs are starting, and free time is being
filled with fun stuff instead of homework... Summer is here!
Apple
released their new line of cheaper laptops called the
MacBook
(starting at $1049). New
Mac OS X
tip,
and if you're really bored, you can always check out the list
of
Summer Fun Ideas...
Home?
May 16, 2006
So yeah, I don't know if I'm going to be able to get home
tomorrow...
This is a bridge in York that was affected by the
flood.
Ryan McCalmon
May 11, 2006
Grain Surfboards on TV!
May 08, 2006
Many of you know that my buddy Sam and I have been building a
hollow body wooden surfboard in our free time, which isn't much,
and our main inspiration comes from these guys down in York, ME.
Mike and Rich from
Grain
Surfboards
have been helping us out a lot, they have a real chill attitude
towards the good life, so check 'em out. You can see their video
clip on the
Non Tech
Projects
page!
Hybrid Hard Drive
May 08, 2006
What? Huh? Who? Me? Right??? Hell Yeah I called it!
"The HHD is the convergence of a flash memory chip and a conventional platter-type magnetic disk drive. To save the time and energy spent spinning a metal disk drive it is designed to use static flash memory when starting a PC." ~The Korea Times
I totally called this one back a month or so ago. This is a product made by Samsung that has a regular hard drive and a flash based hard drive. This makes it capable of 5 second start-ups! This is AWESOME! Vista capable as of next month, probably be Mac capable a few months later, maybe in time for Apple's WWDC in August.
Full Article
"The HHD is the convergence of a flash memory chip and a conventional platter-type magnetic disk drive. To save the time and energy spent spinning a metal disk drive it is designed to use static flash memory when starting a PC." ~The Korea Times
I totally called this one back a month or so ago. This is a product made by Samsung that has a regular hard drive and a flash based hard drive. This makes it capable of 5 second start-ups! This is AWESOME! Vista capable as of next month, probably be Mac capable a few months later, maybe in time for Apple's WWDC in August.
Full Article
Spore
May 07, 2006
----I
usually don't like video games unless they are either racing games
or games like Tony Hawk, but
Spore
is an exception. This is a wicked cool game where you start out on
a molecular level and you work your way up until you develop an
evolved species.
You can completely design what kind of species you want with
customizable body structures, defense systems, movement styles,
etc. Eventually your species will reproduce and make more of what
you designed, then making villages and cities. This is a crazy game
where you can take over other cities and eventually the whole
world, then you can go into space and take over other worlds, you
can visit worlds made by other people playing the game via the
internet. This game never ends, literally, you can always keep
going and conquering. For a lengthy video showing the game off you
can check out
this video
made by the creator, who also is the creator of Sim City and the
Sims.
Podcasts?
May 06, 2006
Do whatever you can, get
podcasts
into your life. They will make you laugh, more educated, hell
you'll just plain enjoy technology for how well it works. This is
an application of technology that anyone has to appreciate. Check
out the
Helpful
Hack
section for more information.
New Mac Ads
May 03, 2006
Just check 'em out for yourself! Subscribe to my podcast and you
will get one a day for the next six days!
May Mix!
May 03, 2006
Check out this month's playlist! The May Mix is a good flashback to some great tunes from the 90's! Click on either picture to go to the iTunes music store to preview these sweet oldies! Then either buy em or download em, but definitely give em a listen, they'll bring you back.
Wii
May 03, 2006
----Anyone
who's a serious gamer will know that the Microsoft made
Xbox
360
is the big console among the gamers, and soon the Sony
PS3
will be out, but sooner than the PS3 is the Nintendo
Revolution...
uh Wii will be out, sorry, the stupid name gets me every time. I'm
excited for the Wii, it's going to boast an easy to use controller
and motion sensed gameplay. I am not a gamer at all, hell, I still
use my N64. I don't play the strategy games, just not for me. I
like MarioKart and Tony Hawk, I'll play some one on one 007, but
I'm what you might call a passive gamer.
----Anyways, I'm looking forward to the $149-$199 price point, and the slew of awesome, relaxed games.
----Anyways, I'm looking forward to the $149-$199 price point, and the slew of awesome, relaxed games.
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