So I just wrote that nice little article about making a headphone stand, which I’ve included a copy of below.
I went over to Ikea signed up for an account and tried to purchase the items needed to assemble my new headphone stand. Unfortunately Ikea decided that they would inform me that one of the items I wanted to order was not available for shipping. This isn’t that big of a problem, but the closest Ikea to me is two hours away and I would have to wait to obtain the parts whenever it is I would be in that area next. My problem with the whole thing is they don’t tell you what part it is. This is what they displayed on the page.
Yeah, how nice of them to not let you know what they can’t ship. Maybe it’s all the pieces, but at least they should put a little asterisk in there somewhere. This was my first attempt to purchase anything at Ikea, and so far they are not impressing me. I’ve always wanted to go to one of their retail locations, maybe I should just skip that as well. I’ve heard they are like mazes.
Just saw this over on lifehacker. They got it from ikeahacker.
Basically it is instructions on how to take three different pieces from Ikea and turn them into a nice headphone stand. I have a nice pair of plantronics headphones that I use to record Growing Up Geek. The problem is that I have no place to keep them nice, they get tangled up in everything and it’s so annoying. So after reading through the article on ikeahacker, I’ve decided I need one of these stands. So I am going to order the parts and build two sets, yes two sets, because when you order the parts you need you get just about enough to make two sets. So if anyone would like the second set just let me know, I’d be happy to split the price with you.
Just saw this over on lifehacker. They got it from ikeahacker.
Basically it is instructions on how to take three different pieces from Ikea and turn them into a nice headphone stand. I have a nice pair of plantronics headphones that I use to record Growing Up Geek. The problem is that I have no place to keep them nice, they get tangled up in everything and it’s so annoying. So after reading through the article on ikeahacker, I’ve decided I need one of these stands. So I am going to order the parts and build two sets, yes two sets, because when you order the parts you need you get just about enough to make two sets. So if anyone would like the second set just let me know, I’d be happy to split the price with you.
I found another mockup of the rumored MacBook Pro. The image was posted to flickr and I must say that I really like it.
I am still hoping that the rumored Apple event will bring an updated MacBook Pro and I also must say that if this was the design they went with I would be extremely happy. I’m currently thinking about selling my new machine I just put together to get some money saved to purchase my new toy.
Let me know what your opinions on this mockup are, again I did not create this, just found it on flickr.
A couple of weeks ago I purchased an Apple TV. This is something I have always wanted, but never broke down and purchased. Well I finally did, and I’ve got to say that I have been very happy with it. I rented a movie to watch with my wife the first day I had it hooked up, and haven’t used it too much since, the reason being I need to setup my iTunes library on my HTPC to work the way I want it with the AppleTV.
So tonight I was home at a decent hour from work, and we decided to watch a family movie after dinner. The children decided they wanted to watch “Get Smart Bruce & Lloyd: Out of Control”. I paid the $4.99 to rent the flick in HD and it started the download. About 5 minutes later I got the message that the flick was ready for playback, and I hit the play button. This is when the fun started. It only showed a white screen and nothing else, if I fast forwarded I could see the name of the chapter, but still no video. So of course I turned to the all knowing google, after a quick search I was able to find this post on the Apple Support Discussions Forum. Basically the resolution to this problem was a restart, which after thinking about it myself made perfect sense, since the Apple TV is basically a trimmed down Mac Mini. So I am happy to say that after the restart we were able to watch the flick, and enjoy some time together as a family.
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.
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