Monthly Archives: January 2009

Best Holiday gift – Sennhieser RS120 wireless headphones

One of the best holiday gifts I got this year, has to be my wireless headphones. They were purchased from an Amazon.com half price special, and used in the family gift exchange. My plan was just to pick them, instead of another gift. The plan worked perfectly.

I am not sure how I lived without these. All I had to do was plug them into my TV audio out. The sound quality is perfect, and there is no interference. When I am done, they just go on the charging  stand.

Now I can watch late night movies, or video games without disturbing anybody.

Sennheiser

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Windows 7 – Day 7 – Movie Maker Beta WTF

I found out that windows 7 does not come with all of the programs you would expect. I wanted to post a video to my Facebook account, but it needed a little editing. It just needed to be trimmed a little, should not be a problem for Movie Maker. I look in the start menu, and it is not there. After a short web search, I find that it is only available as a download from live.com.

So I install the Movie Maker beta, anticipating an improved program. I am actually shocked when I first open MM, it does not look like an editing program. It takes a bit, but I figure out how to trim/crop my video . The controls are so imprecise, that I could not get the trim points right. They were about 20 seconds from the spot I needed.  I was able to get my video posted, but this is the last time using MM.

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Windows 7 – Day 6

I have been using my windows 7 laptop only for the last 6 days.

Win 7 pros –

  • very stable
  • Fast booting, shutting down.
  • seems to run better than vista on the same laptop

Win7 Cons –

  • some graphics issues, with screen redraws. It could just be an issue with this laptop(dell D630, Nvidia quadro NVS 135M)
  • Issues with apps that minimize to the system tray. It takes an extra step to get to them.
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Movie FAIL! – The Wrestler

Today, we decided to go see the Wrestler. I had the day off because of the subzero temperatures. When we got into the lobby, I noticed it was really cold. I even made a comment about how it has to suck for the girl taking tickets.

Then about an hour into the movie, the fire alarms go off. Everybody is a little confused on what to do, until they turn on the lights and stop the movie. We all stream out to the hallway, where a couple of employees are frantically running around. They keep yelling something, but it is hard to hear with the alarms. Almost everybody is still in the building, because it is so cold outside. The employees finally start making it clear that everybody needs to leave the building. I think we were all hoping that is was a false alarm. As we were getting rushed out of the building the employees were yelling that we would all get refunds. As we walked past the front entrance it was clear that some pipes must have burst. There was a crazy amount of water shooting from the ceiling. It was coming out of the building and freezing on the sidewalk. At this point is was really clear that we would not be getting any refunds from the box office today.

The worst part of the day, is what to do about seeing the movie. We were half way through it. I guess we will just have to wait to Netflix it.

Theater FAIL!

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Windows 7 – Day1

I set up Windows 7 on a newer high end Dell laptop(latitude D630) today. The plan is to use it for my everyday laptop. I want to see how long I can use the laptop without have to go back to my old one. Day one has been all about installing everything I need. This included firefox, flash, acrobat, filezilla, tweetdeck, and office. The only issue I had was with tweetdeck. I am not sure why, but the adobe air was having trouble installing. It looked like the computer was trying to install adobe air, even though it was already installed.

Day 1 has been almost all positive. I would say it is a huge improvement over vista. over the next few days, I want to make sure to try all of the new features.

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