Slacker Personal Radio is a free internet music service. Although the company has existed for some time now I had never tried their service. Unlike Pandora, Slacker lacked the media attention and since none of my friends were users of the service or their devices neither was I. This all changed when I acquired a [...]

On Saturday I received my 4th Bag of Crap from woot.com. For those of you who don’t know what a Bag of Crap is, it’s basically a grab bag. You pay $3 for the bag + $5 shipping and the only guarantee is you will get some sort of bag and some random crap — [...]

So Cathy’s department head decided that it would be a good idea to celebrate everyone’s birthday on one day and make it the office birthday party. We all know what a bad idea something like that is but that aside…Knowing she wouldn’t answer her phone I called and sang Happy Birthday to her voice-mail. Here [...]

This afternoon Steve Jobs, donned in his usual black turtleneck, unveiled the much hyped and long rumored Apple tablet. The Apple iPad is a 10 inch tablet like device which runs the iPhone OS. The device is powered by an Apple designed processor, most likely developed by P.A Semiconductor which apple acquired last April. Available [...]

NBC, Conan O’Brien, and Jay Leno have spent the last two weeks in the spotlight following rumors of an NBC late night restructuring. For the last week it appeared as if no late night personalities were safe. As details of the restructuring emerge its pretty clear that everyone suffers to some extent, but none as [...]

Anyone who has AT&T service in a major market has come to accept the outrageous dropped call percentage [1]. AT&T conveniently blames the iPhone for this “recent” problem, but I had this problem with AT&T 5 years ago when I owned a simple Motorola V400 flip phone. At that time AT&T blamed the V400 for [...]

Windows 7 is poised to be a hit. By all accounts Windows 7 is a superior operating system when compared to Windows Vista, sporting both a smaller memory footprint and lighter hardware requirements than its predecessor. It also offers a significant jump in technology to users upgrading from Windows XP. Save one instance — Netbooks. [...]

Panda Image Gallery 2.2.1 has been released. This new version includes several security fixes. Installations which have new user registration enabled should upgrade to version 2.2.1 immediately. Version 2.2.0 introduced a bug which displayed special characters in gallery titles and descriptions as html character codes. This has been corrected in 2.2.1. The page link engine [...]

Panda Image Gallery 2.2.0 has been released. This release refines several aspects of the software in addition to adding several features, some of which had been neglected far too long. Theme support has been expanded to allow theme designers to control the number of rows and columns in the gallery directory. Users can change their [...]