October 24, 2008 at 9:02 AM · Filed under Personal Rants
Finally there’s a Blu-Ray player that I might actually buy. And it’s not because I’m a big high definiation fan with a 126″ Mondo Plasma TV — I’m just cheap, OK? I remember when a DVD title used to require you to dig up Benjamin Franklin’s grave. Anyway, Amazin.com has the Sylvania NB500SL9 going for under $200. It does 1080p, comes with an HDMI cable and while it doesn’t look sexy at all, it does the job on a budget.
Me? I’m sticking to DVD for now. I have a big screen TV but it’s not super fancy high definition in any fasion and I don’t notice any improved picture quality using Blu-Ray V.S. Standard DVD so until I upgrade my whole living room I’m going to be using regular ol’ DVD for a long time to come.
October 14, 2008 at 2:53 PM · Filed under The Internet
Recently statitics show that Google isn’t just the #1 search engine on the Internet, but also… #2? That’s right! YouTube, owned and operated by Google has surpassed once king of the search engines, Yahoo!, to become the #2 search engine on the Internet.
I never thought I’d live to see this day.
October 1, 2008 at 11:24 AM · Filed under Miscellaneous
There you are rushing around juggling meetings and confrence calls and all of sudden a number pops up that’s not in your Address Book. Maybe it’s the Boss calling from his new iPhone. Who knows! All you know is that you picked it up without thinking and now you’re un a heated conversation with a bill collector or your ex-girlfriend. Whoa! Wouldn’t you like to silence or block these annoying calls?
I spent $20 on a program called Black & Whitelist for my BlackBerry to block numbers I don’t want to talk to but on some phones, especially “regular” phones, this isn’t an option. Sometimes you can call your wireless provider and have them block the number but most of the time they aren’t going to waste their time with doing this often. I noticed a lot of phones have the ability to hide Address Book entries and then I had a stroke of genius — The Silent Ringtone.
Simply add the numbers you don’t want to hear from in your Address Book and assign them this unique, completely silent ringer and say goodbye to interruptions. If your phone supports advanced profiles, you can turn off vibrate and notifications as well. This is probably the easiest (and cheapest) way to keep some callers at bay. I’m including this silent ringtone in both MP3 and WAV format.
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