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Art and Technology night at J.R. Briggs 2011

My phone finds a second life at Disney as a tour guide..

My phone is the cheapest Android phone money can buy, and slow as hell, but Disney is putting it to use as a virtual tour guide.  Wonder if someone at Disney would be willing to trade with me for a phone with a faster processor and more memory :-)   It’s a nice phone physical size wise, but I maxed it out shortly after I got it, and have been trying to extract every bit of speed out of it ever since.  Now I’m locked into it until next August :-(  


http://phandroid.com/2010/08/11/droid-eris-isnt-dead-thanks-to-disney-will-soon-enjoy-life-as-a-magic-kingdom-tour-guide/


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High end bookshelf speakers, for little money

One device I really enjoy is the Apple Airport Express, which lets you stream iTunes music, to remote speakers. The Airport Express gives you the ability to play music, wirelessly, anywhere in your house. Now, there are lots of speakers out there that have some fancy claim about being “MP3 speakers” or “iPod speakers”, and usually will do just about everything but your dishes, however, the actual sound quality of many of these speakers is pure audio torture. While I don’t think of myself as an audiophile (who has a spare $100k or more to drop on tube amps, and speakers with serial numbers that are lucky to be above double digits?) I do however appreciate good sound quality. Very few things in life can move someone like music can, and part of the musical experience is being able to reproduce the sound as close to live as possible. Read on for my review…

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Hard, difficult times ahead for Microsoft — dump your stock now!!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20080411/bs_nf/59251

Although I have been saying this stuff for years, it has finally come into sight of the press. Windows Vista has been a totally disappointing flop. Internet explorer has never adhered to web standards. Promises of stability back in 1995, that really didn’t happen until Windows 2000 shipped, and even then, it took several service packs – mostly SP4 – before any kind of stability was finally noticed. Security has been abysmal. It wasn’t until Vista shipped, that Microsoft finally understood that the user should not always run as the admin account. I could go on and on, but I feel like I have said this stuff so many times now, that they have become cliches. Technically, Microsoft has always been behind. They have just been better marketers than their competitors. Apple has finally put together a good marketing campaign, and really stands to gain some market share, especially when compared to Vista. OS X 10.5 (Leopard) has a much, much higher user satisfaction rating than Vista, and I am certainly one happy customer!

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