Category Archives: Gadgets

iPhone sluggishness

The iPhone is shiny, let there be no doubt. It’s a fascinating device, but since you can find a hundred articles about all the good it does I won’t waste too much time on that. Instead today I’ll describe some curious slowdowns I’ve experienced. Nothing too problematic, certainly these are slowdowns I’ll live with as [...]

Day of the iPhone

Today the era of the iPhone begins. We shall all tremble at it’s awesome power. Seriously though, it’s really shiny nifty.

Pioneer spiel

So I was out looking at more TV’s today, because the subject of plasma vs. LCD remains confounding. It’d be nice to see a few plasmas up close, because so far all the plasmas I’ve seen have been hooked up to fuzzy component inputs run through several splitters. They’ve looked uniformly terrible, so it was [...]

So my roommate has a 360..

..and it’s cool enough. Gaming is fun, it plays great, eh maybe it’s a little on the noisy side, but its been a good experience. Well.. as long as I’m not using the interface. ‘Cuz my oh my does the 360 interface ever suck?
In my opinion it’s way too complicated and heavy handed for the [...]