Digital Sundries

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Posts tagged as nerdy

Toshiba External Drive

2011-07-17 by derrell, tagged as nerdy, techpron

Got myself a new external drive recently. This time instead of just getting an enclosure and using one of extra drives laying around I actually bought an external hard drive. This is little Toshiba drive packs a lot of room into a small footprint. The thing is tiny and is still 1TB. Things like this really make me feel old sometimes. The first hard drive that had was in a computer that had a 286 processor and was a whopping 20 megabytes. It was also at least five times the size of this drive physically, it was huge.

So far it seems to be working just fine even though there were some bad reviews at Newegg where I ordered it from. I haven't experienced any of the problems that people there have reported. It seems that with any hard drive there are going to be some that people get that just don't work. You pretty much just take your chances with just about any of them it seems.

Posted Sunday 05:01 AM

Upgraded Blazeblogger

2010-12-30 by derrell, tagged as general, nerdy

Upgraded my version of Blazeblogger to 1.1.2. I was using the 1.0 version available through ubuntu's package repositories. This newer version adds things like an RSS feed and previous and next links at the bottom of the page that lead to older and newer posts, as well as some bug fixes.

Had to uninstall the 1.0 version and install the newest one from the command line but these are perl scripts and the process is pretty much painless. The best part is that all of the custom perl scripts that I've written still work with the newest version.

Posted Thursday 07:25 PM

HTC Incredible Wallpaper

2010-12-29 by derrell, tagged as nerdy

Recently got an HTC Droid Incredible phone and I've been trying my hand at creating some different wallpaper for it. All of these images were created using either the filters and plugins of the gimp or are clipart that I've found and modified to fit the the Incredible.

If you can use 960x800 images as wallpaper, which is what my phone uses, feel free to use these. Just click on the thumbnail then in the window that pops up right click and save the image. Then you can transfer it to your phone.

Posted Wednesday 08:26 AM

Jack Wagons

2010-12-29 by derrell, tagged as nerdy, politics

Got a pretty good snorfle out of this cartoon at Townhall.com. It's older but I just ran across it this morning.

And for anyone who doesn't get the reference Here is the Geico commercial from Youtube.

Geico also has clips of it's commercials available as ringtones here. If you don't like giving myxer your phone number here is a clip of the entire R. Lee Ermey portion of the video. You can pull whatever portion of it out as ringtone or notification tone that you want.

Right Click Save As to download mp3

Posted Wednesday 07:27 AM

Jetbook Mini

2010-09-25 by derrell, tagged as nerdy, tech_pron

On something of a tech kick today so I'll post this too. Ectaco is coming out with a new reader. The Jetbook Mini which I like because the design is reminiscent of the ebookwise 1150. I still have an ebookwise and I have always liked it because of the ergonomics of it. It is built like a tool that is easy to grasp and not like a fashion accessory that always feels like it is trying to jump out of your hand.

One of the drawbacks is that the thing only supports two formats. Txt and FB2, since it supports FB2 and I use that format quite a bit that is a plus but it would be nice if it supported a drm format of some kind like the jetbook lite does. As I get older I find that there are times when I just want things to work without my having to do a lot of tinkering. Hopefully Ectaco will release new firmware that supports either drm'ed epub or Barnes and Nobles' ereader format.

Special Features list from the Ectaco website. There is also a video of the reader at the link.

Posted Saturday 03:39 PM