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Welcome! It looks like this is the first time you’re visiting my site. You may want to follow my posts by adding my RSS feed to your reader. Or, if you’re not sure about RSS, you can subscribe via email. I’ve recently had the chance to try out three noise-canceling headphones:
Bose QuietComfort 2
Creative Aurvana X-Fi
Philips [...]
Snow Leopard, the new version of Mac OS X, was announced at the 2008 WWDC in San Francisco. It’s an important release for the following reasons:
Builds upon existing technologies and perfects them. It introduces few new features, but will allow Apple to really focus on delivering a very good OS by developing further the technologies [...]
» Go to this postThe 8GB Super*Talent USB flash drive I ordered from Brando arrived last night, and it was a very pleasant surprise to see how tiny it really is. It’s smaller than a simple USB connector, in both width and thickness. I am amazed by how small it is — and the thought that 8GB of data [...]
» Go to this postI’ve re-organized my Drobo review and also added two brand new updates to it, in the “Transfer speeds” and “How it sounds” sections. They’re marked with today’s date. If you’re interested in the Drobo or you already own one, you’ll want to look into this.
While my updates aren’t exactly flattering, I still think the Drobo [...]
I’ve had Vista SP1 installed on my machine for a week or so, and I’m pleased (surprised as well) to see that Microsoft addressed some of the issues that have frustrated me in the past. I guess when your expectations are low, any step toward something better is noticeable.
If I sound somewhat bitter, it’s because [...]
Remember this post of mine, where I tried to discern among the various LCD monitors on the market, but couldn’t get anywhere when I dug a little deeper into the Apple Cinema Display specs? I wrote that on 4/30/07, and nothing has changed since then.
I was looking at the specs for the 15″ MacBook Pro [...]
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We watched Awakenings (1990) tonight, and I was left with a newly found appreciation for life. This movie drives home the following point very well: you don’t know what you have till you’ve lost it.
Imagine watching your life, as you know it, become unavailable to you, which is what happens to people who suffer from [...]
The Drobo is a new way to store your data. It works like RAID, only better. Made by Data Robotics, the Drobo is an enclosure that can use anywhere from 2 to 4 SATA hard drives of any size and brand to keep multiple copies of your files and ensure against hard drive failures.
It’s all [...]
» Go to this postReleased on August 24, 2006, the Rebel XTi is Canon’s newest entry-level prosumer DSLR. It’s an update on the popular Rebel XT, and it’s different from it as follows:
Slightly thinner body, heavier (2.56in vs. 2.63in and 510g vs. 485g)
Newer, re-designed sensor with higher resolution (10 megapixels vs. 8.2 megapixels)
Sensor cleaning technology (dust shaken off the [...]
Many of us have heard this before, but it bears repeating. Customer or user satisfaction depends, in large part, upon the expectations you set, as a service or product provider. Promise something you can’t or don’t deliver, and satisfaction goes right down the drain, no matter what you did right.
A great friend of mine put [...]
I was listening to the radio one morning, and realized the sound effects they were using to advertise a website were the clicks of a keyboard likely made in the 80’s — you know, long key travel, spring-loaded action, hard clicks. But it worked.
More importantly, it is the only sound that can approximate a keyboard [...]
Back on August 1st, Olympus PR invited me to attend the Legg Mason Tennis Classic here in DC and shoot with their new DSLR, the EVOLT E-510. I enjoyed myself thoroughly at that event, and my thanks go out to Michael Bourne from Mullen, the agency that handles the PR for Olympus.
When I arrived there, [...]
