Let me preface this post by saying that I know it’s not going to happen, but it sure would be nice.
Today on Digg there was an Article showing what looks like an ad for the new MacBook Pro. It shows it looking for like the Air, but larger, heavier and more powerful. There is also an article to this form post. One of the pictures in this post shows this text “The New MacBook Thinner Then Ever Before Coming September 23rd”. Now September 23rd is a big day for me, it just happens to be my 30th birthday. So that’s it really. I want to get a MacBook Pro and I am holding out until the new ones come out. So maybe I can get it as a birthday present to myself. Although, the baby is due close to my birthday as well. That means I will have the best present in the world, but maybe I could still manage to obtain the MacBook Pro and have the second best birthday present in the world.
I would also like to note that I am very tired, and haven’t been sleeping well. I am hoping this all made sense. I’m off now to try and get some of that rare sleep stuff. G’night all.
This is my current iPhone background. I may start a collection on the site so please feel free to send them in.
I have been planning a new video podcast, and one of the first things I will be doing for it is titled project “h”. Now I can’t say much about this project, but I will say this much. It involves building a computer, which we are going to do on camera. Needless to say I would need parts to build a computer, yeah sure I could build it out of spare parts I had laying around the house, but what would the fun of that be?
So I headed over to my favorite part supplier newegg.com. I ordered the following list of parts on Tuesday at 10:56AM.
Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6850 3.0GHz LGA 775 130W Quad-Core Processor
DFI BloodIron P35-T2RL ATX Intel Motherboard
Patriot 4GB(2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Memory
LG 20X DVD±R Super Multi DVD Burner Black ATAPI / E-IDE Model GSA-H55NK
Now I paid for standard shipping on the entire order, and did not choose the rush option. I arrived home from work the next day (Wednesday) at 4:30 and saw a package on my porch. I thought to myself, I didn’t order anything recently, and it’s too soon to be my package from newegg. Well I am happy to say that I was wrong. It was actually my newegg package. So I got curious as to when it was actually dropped off on my porch. So I checked the tracking number via the newegg site and found it was delivered at 1:48, which is barely 24 hours after I had placed the order.
So that is why I love newegg, not only do they have the best prices around, but the service is exceptional. I do have to not that I was lucky enough to have everything I ordered be in stock at the Edison, NJ warehouse. Being that I live in Northeast Pennsylvania, it was a quick trip to my home. But even when I order things that have to ship from California they are usually always here within 2 days, 3 at the most.
Now hopefully you’ve read all the way down to hear, and are thinking to yourself that this is going to be a pretty powerful computer with an extreme quad core processor and 4 gigs of ram. Well I actually ordered 2 sets of the ram, so that means 8 gigs of ram. So this is going to be a beast of a computer, you’ll just have to keep an eye out for the upcoming launch of the new project. I’m not going to give out the URL just yet. If you want to know when the project launches you can subscribe to my RSS feed, or you can follow me on twitter.
Technorati Tags: Computers, Newegg, Project "h"
Tags: Computers, Newegg, Project "h"
As you may know I am a strong believer in Windows Home Server and believe home servers are going to be a big part of computing within the upcoming years.
So today is a special day for you. Microsoft is allowing you to download a 120 day trial of Windows Home Server. I personally can not say enough good things about WHS, although in the beginning there were some problems such as the notorious data corruption bug.
For those of you whom may be interested in the trial, here is the information.
To order a trial kit click here.
To learn more about WHS click here.
It is finally here, and hopefully will fix all of our problems. I will be installing it later on this evening when I get my iTunes account setup on my Lenovo laptop since I had to give the MacBook back to my company. I will post more once I have the update installed. Let me know how your experience went with the update in the comments below.
We had planned on taking a trip to Tannersville today but the weather didn’t hold out. We ended up driving to Scranton and going to the Viewmont Mall.
While at the mall we ended up finding school dress code appropriate clothes for the kids at Macys of all places. The thing that shocked me was that the prices are reasonable and they are having a 30% off sale. After we got everything to the register and rung out the cashier gave us a coupon which ended up saving us another $40. It was a good trip on which we got most of the clothes for the kids. After leaving Macys we went and picked up three pairs of shoes at Payless. We still need to get another pair for Junior for basketball though.
Now we are at Texas Roadhouse enjoying some rolls and cinnamon butter while our food is being prepared. We are also waiting to hear from my sister about dropping the kids off to visit with her for a few days. Well that’s all for now. More rolls were just dropped off and I would like to consume them.
Technorati Tags: Family Shopping
Tags: Family Shopping
As everybody possibly knows I bought the iPhone 3G recently. It was an upgrade to my original iPhone. Now I have to admit I was harsh on my original iPhone, but I figured it was metal and it would hold up well. I was partially correct. The metal held up well, but got scratched up, the screen which was said to be unscratchable was anything but. I have two scratches and a pin size hold in my original iPhone screen.
So that leads us to the new iPhone 3G which I ordered on launch day, I figured I would take better care of this bad boy since it is now plastic and not metal on the back. After doing some research I decided to purchase an invisible shield from zagg. I purchased the screen protector locally. I installed it on my second attempt, the first one was a little crooked (hint: apply a good amount of spray, that way the cover slides around).
After putting the screen protector through it’s paces, I have to say I love it. In fact I love it so much, I ordered the full body protector online. This will also help keep the plastic back from getting all scratched up. Now here is the best part. After browsing the website I found that they sell protectors for over 2,500 items. This includes Apple laptops. I plan on picking one up for my MacBook Pro once I purchase it within the next few months.
So in closing, all I can say is if you have an electronic device that you want to keep protected, I highly recommend picking up an invisible shield by zagg. Besides iLounge.com seems to think very highly of it as well, so don’t just take my word for it.
So back in the day Kevin offered one of the Digg coders a free iPhone if he could code a mobile digg site fairly quickly. He was victorious in coding http://www.digg.com/iphone. It was rudimentary, but it was functional. Fast forward to today, a little over a year later and they launch the new Digg mobile, which not only works with the iPhone, but also other phones with full mobile browsers. You can check it out here http://m.digg.com on your mobile phone
I think it is a major improvement. I like the fact that the site has better tagging for video files with the inclusion of the youtube tag, so you know the video can play if your phone supports youtube. I also like that the time frame popularity buttons are included.
