Well, that is something that I could have said for a while now, but I will also be blogging over on Gadgetell. I started earlier this week and have been getting some posts up over there. I am really excited to be part of the team and hope anyone that reads over here will check out my posts over on Gadgetell as well.

I will of course continue to update and write over here as well just like I always have. Just give me some time to get settled into Gadgetell and then I will continue to be a geek here!

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Fun Stuff, this is a Ransom Note Generator, have fun and make some messages, you even have your choice of Yellow or Plain paper. What fun that could be had with this.

You can click on the image above to see the larger version.

Found Via: [techyum]
Ransom Note Generator: [Link]

I am glad to have helped out where I could. Having owned many iPods I feel at least partially responsible for this great task.

I have owned:
1. 3rd gen 15gb
2. iPod mini 4gb (1st gen mini)
3. 4th gen 40gb (black & white display)
4. 4th gen 60 gb Photo (color display)
5. 5th gen 60gb (white)
6. 5th gen 80gb (white)
7. 1st gen iPod Shuffle 1gb
8. 2nd gen iPod Shuffle 1gb Silver
9. 1st gen 4gb iPod nano (black)
10. 2nd gen 4gb iPod nano (silver)

Wow, 10 iPods, even sounds like alot to me. The ones listed in bold are the ones that I still have and use, the rest were either sold to family members or on eBay to fund the newer models.

Read: [Apple]

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With my somewhat recent purchase of a Canon HV10 digital video camera. I have been getting real excited by internet video, of course the recent AppleTV helps that excitement. Now, I have no plans to launch any sort of video podcast or anything like that. Even though I did register areyouageek.tv, it just forwards this blog. I am however having a lot of fun messing with some home family video’s. I have an account on Blip.tv and also upload some to my .mac account to share with family and some friends. My main for reason not fully enjoying video is the time it takes to encode video. I am working on my Powerbook and its sometimes slow, of course I have been shooting in HD, so that adds to that time factor.

I have been taking some video’s and I have been learning to edit using iMovie HD. Nothing fancy for me yet, at least let me learn the basics first. I am excited about this new device that has been announced, the Elgato Turbo.264. This Turbo.264 should be available in the US by the end of April for $99. I can only hope this is true, because I will run out and get one ASAP. The only downfall for me is that although it will encode my HD video clips to H.264 the maximum output is limited to 800×600.

But that would work well for me because my main concern is that I can upload these to web to share and for that I would downgrade the quality anyway.

Via: engadgetHD

I have had an interest in a subscription service for a while and never really got into Napster. I already spend way to much money on music and a monthly “all I can eat” may actually save me some money. I tend to always buy complete albums even if I have only heard one song.

I had a Napster account when they first when live with the legal service. They had run a promo when they first started that the first 1000 people who signed up for a year service also got a free player, and it was a nice player. I cannot remember what the player was, but it was real nice and worth more than the year subscription cost. I signed up, got the player in the mail, and had it sold to a co-worker within minutes. I made $50.00 and still got to listen to Napster for “free” for 1 year on my Windows machine that I had at work. After that I canceled the service.

I do have an interest in the Zune, I love Apple and really like my iPod but being a tech junkie, I like to try out what is available, just to be able to compare and play. The Zune has gotten some decent reviews and I read a few Zune Blogs just to keep up. I would most likely (if they offer this) sign up for a year service, if I was given a decent free player.

This would be ok for me for 2 reasons, I have a Windows machine set up that I need and use daily for work and could actually use the Zune Marketplace to at least listen at that machine, and I also have an AUX input in my car so I could use the Zune easily in the car. For that alone it would be worth a years worth of service to really see what they offer.

I do not think that I will ever leave Apple or the iPod but it’s still nice to see what else is there. I live in an Apple house, my wife has a MacBook, I have a Powerbook, we also have 2 Mac mini’s in the house. Also once we replace our bedroom tv with a new LCD or Plasma I will be getting an AppleTV to go along with it. I use iTunes for all my music, a decent amount of TV shows and love to get some music video’s as well and I am sure once Apple offers more movies I will get some more of those as well. So I am an Apple person, some may call me an Apple Fanboy. But I am still open to what else is there.

A free Zune with subscription may be just what it would take to get me to really check it out. Right now I have no interest in paying for a Zune, not worth the money considering I already have 2 Shuffles a nano and an 80gb Video, and no I don’t use all of them, 1 Shuffle sits most of the time, but the other Shuffle get used often and the nano and video get used daily.

Would a Free Zune with subscription get you to buy a membership? And if so what do you currently have and use?

Via: tuaw.com

Ipod saves Soldier’s Life

Originally uploaded by tikigod.

It makes me a bit nervous to blog about a story that starts off as “My wife’s uncle works” but this it too good to pass up. I hope that no one would hoax this story so here goes…

A nice photo of a damaged iPod, it’s great because this iPod saved his life. According to the story posted with the photo an insurgent armed with an AK-47 shot him and the iPod took the bullet and helped to save his life.

It’s funny to because alot of Apple Fanyboys like myself would have gotten rid of this “old” iPod years ago but this just goes to show that even an old iPod still serves very well. This is an older HP branded 20gb Apple iPod.

Pretty Cool, nice to see it at least had a happy ending, seems as if he may even get a replacement iPod from Apple. Now that would be some good PR for Apple.

You can check out a few other pics here: Flickr