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TIVO Series 3 Review

Posted by The Mayor of Bloggintown on April 25th, 2008

When the first TIVO came out years ago, I was the first in line to get one. It was love at first sight.

Several DVR’s later, I decided to go back to the original and purchase a Series 3 TIVO.

The Series 3 costs $699 retail and there was no way I could or want to pay that much. So I checked out EBay and patiently waited… after bidding on about 5 auctions (only to have some jackass outbid me at the last couple seconds!) I finally nabbed one. I think I got a good deal: Brand New for $375 (including shipping).

After the initial setup and living with it for a week, here are my thoughts.
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Sirius Stiletto 2

Posted by The Mayor of Bloggintown on April 14th, 2008

I got a Sirius Stiletto 2 last week and I am loving it.

I really didn’t need it but since I’m trying to better organize and manage my time better, I decided to take the plunge. I got it off of EBay for $230 where it retails for around $300 – so I saved a couple of bucks.

The main reason I got it was because I love Howard Stern. I’m retarded for him. I usually end up listening to his replay on Howard 100 but that doesn’t usually end till 2. So, I’m stuck in the house till then usually. I know, I’m an idiot.

With this baby, you can set it to record over a 100 hours of music or talk radio. Transfer mp3′s from your music collection and add memory buy adding a microSD card. It has built in WiFi and and from what I understand, it even makes you breakfast. All this and it’s portable! I used it ridding my bike this weekend.

I know Sirius and XM are (hopefully) about to merge and that there will be newer and better products out on the market soon, but using this is a great way to add hours to my day. If you’re thinking about getting one, do yourself a favor – buy it!

Verizon Wireless Card

Posted by The Mayor of Bloggintown on April 2nd, 2008

Verizon PC5740 card

I have a Verizon Wireless PC card – PC5740 (courtesy of my girlfriend’s work). It’s the best thing ever. If you have the money to spare, do yourself a favor and get one. I use it every time I travel. I can surf the internet while I’m in traffic – jealous much?

Anyway, since I got my new laptop I hadn’t had a chance to used it. So I installed the program and slid in the card.

And I got the BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH.

Nothing I did worked and everything they had about the issue on Google was over 2 years old.

I looked to see if I needed to install any Windows Updates and yes, I did. Vista Service Pack 1 was there staring at me in the face.

I installed it, put the card back in and now I’m ready to go mobile.

Quicktime Ruined My Day

Posted by The Mayor of Bloggintown on March 20th, 2008

Since my laptop is new, I havent put all my programs on it yet. I usually get around to doing that on a “when I need to use it” basis. This morning, I was messing around and saw a new movie trailer I hadnt watched yet and needed Quicktime (I wont say what trailer cause it’s a total chick movie).

I downloaded Quicktime and watched the Mama Mia trailer… uh, I mean, watched the trailer for the Angelina Jolie movie Wanted.

A little while later, I noticed that whenever I clicked onto a web page, it took a while to load. I was going nuts cause there was no reason for it. I searched Google, disabled my firewall, plugged my connection directly into the router, and did a hundred other fixes. Nothing I did worked.

Since I have the worst memory ever, I finally remembered: I installed Quicktime.

I love Quicktime and in all the years I’ve used it, I have never ever had any sort of problem with it. But regardless, I was getting more and more frustrated and went to System Restore.

It deleted Quicktime and what do you know? I was back up and running like nothing was ever wrong.

Has anyone ever had that problem with Quicktime?

My New Dell Laptop

Posted by The Mayor of Bloggintown on March 19th, 2008

So, like I wrote earlier (here and here), the hinges on my laptop broke and the screen wouldn’t stand up by itself. I called Dell, told them what happened and they said send it in. Since I was sending it in anyway, I told them it was running hot as well. Apparently thats the hot button with them because the guy on the phone said they would send me a new one immediately.

Well, this past weekend it arrived.

My old laptop was a Dell Latitude D820. The new one is a Latitude D830 and from what I can tell, all the hardware are the newer versions of what I had previously had. The screen is tons brighter and I am loving it.

Thanks Dell!

Retarded MacGyver

Posted by The Mayor of Bloggintown on February 28th, 2008

So, my laptop was broken. The replacement is coming in a couple of weeks but I had to keep working.

What’s a guy to do?

I used the small amount of brain cells I have left and created a fix-it solution.

Ingredients:
String, Large 2″ Binder Clip, closed window blinds so no one sees what you’re doing.
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