The state of Virginia has it’s statewide general election on November 3rd, 2009; it’s an opportunity to select our next Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, Delegates to every house seat in the state, and roughly 1/3rd the state senators. Most localities also hold their county and city elections at the same time. Aside from the […]
Tagged 2009 elections, primary elections, virginia elections, Virginia GovernorAs expected, Apple had their iPhone SDK event today where they announced version 3.0 for iPhone and iPod touches is coming this Summer (developers can get the beta SDK today). It will cost $9.95 for iPod touch owners, and it’s free for iPhone owners (probably subsidized by the subscription revenue from your phone plan). It […]
Tagged Apple, computer servers, iPhone, iPod, PDAI am stunned at some of the prices a few of these old pieces of gear are fetching… $700+ for old dual G5 XServes!? $1000 for old Dell Poweredge servers!? nearly $500 each for Dell Latitude D630 laptops!? On the other hand, $851 for a Sun V440 with four processors and 16GB of memory is […]
Doh! Apparently, every Intel based Mac since early 2006 has had a new feature that Apple has completely failed to market. I have owned a few of these Macs and never knew about this feature, and others have probably skipped Apple products not knowing it was available. The feature I am referring to is the […]
Tagged digital audio, Mac Mini, media center, surround soundLooks like it is some sort of announcement/preview of a new iPhone SDK or perhaps a new iPhone OS upgrade/update. I gotta say, if they are considering releasing a new major revision (iPhone OS 3.0) without global search, cut and paste, the ability to synchronize notes between iPhone and Mac desktop; they need to delay. […]
Tagged Apple, Computers, iPhone, PDAIn about two weeks dealers will begin getting model year 2010 Honda Insight hybrid cars. This will be a completely renovated Honda Insight that looks a lot more like a Prius than the old Insight; and it will cost less than $20,000 brand new! LA Times Article, with pictures I originally wanted an Insight, but […]
Tagged Cars, Honda Insight, HybridWorld Builder from Bruce Branit on Vimeo.
Rasmus.com is the official auctioneer and reseller of all the old Server, laptop, and desktop gear I was talking about – now they own it all. http://rasmuscatalog.com/cgi-bin/mnlist.cgi?rasmus324/category/ALL I have no idea what this stuff will finally go for – but it’s sad to see it all online.
Tagged ComputersThe new Apple Mac Mini is much better than previous models. It’s improvements are subtle, and anyone making a quick glance might miss the changes, but here is a summary: The switch from embedded Intel graphics to NVIDIA GeForce 9400M is a huge energy savings; the new Mini uses only half the power of the […]
Tagged Apple, Computers, MacErci has a 15″ MacBook Pro with 2.16GHz Intel Core2 Duo, 2GB memory (2 sticks of 1GB DDR2 memory at 667MHz), ATI Radeon X1600 graphics (128MB VRAM), 112GB SATA drive, and Mac OS X 10.5 cleanly installed. Her machine is pretty mint, having never really traveled outside the family room. She’d love to hear from […]
Tagged computer, for sale, MacBook Pro