Hardware Geeks

Today I got my hands on the Blueant V1 Bluetooth headse, which is I believe th first ever voice controlled headset available. I took some unboxing pictures and decided to share them with you.

It’s similar in design to other Blueant headsets we reviewed in the past like the Z9, the only difference is this one is silver. Before we get on with the pictures I wanted to mention that by far this was the easiest Headset to set up ever, a combination of the voice command prompts from the headset and the iPaq 910 allowed me to pair the phone in less than a minute. 

When HP asked me if I was interested in reviewing one of their work stations, I said sure. When they told me it was on its way I expected a huge box, but what arrived was a small one.  I immediately thought it was something else, maybe some accessories to go along with it.  I was quite surprised when I opened the box though.  It was indeed the HP Ultra Slim dc7800, a workstation that measures 9.90 x 10.00 x 2.60 inches and weighs only 7 pounds.

I was immediately impressed by its size, or lack of. While the size surprised me I was a bit concerned that a machine this small could not handle the same day to day workings as a traditional work station. (But) I was always told great things come in small packages so the fact that it was being powered by Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 2.33 Ghz CPU and 2 Gigs of ram reassured me.  The dc7800 could probably deliver the same results as a traditional work station.

In responce to a YouTube video by a user who claimed they found a glitch in the popular golf game Tiger Woods 2009, EA released a video of their own, showing that the supposed glitch was in deed not a glitch but the fact that Tiger Woods simply is that good.

Let’s roll the Video Tape!

IE 8 Beta 2 is available for download. Click here to download a version suited to your specs.

The new IE 8 beta 2 is loaded with features and plug-ins, and after reading all the features it has it makes me wonder if it isn’t becoming a bloated Monster. Feel free to post and let us know what you think of it, I have been using it for about 20 minutes now and I have to say it is a lot more stable than the previous version and I like it a bit but may go back to IE 7 depending how the next few hours or so go with it. 

http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=MAGICNUMBER&kbln=en-us

Just replace MAGICNUMBER with the hotfix’s KB article number and you’ll get a download link to the out of band hotfix within a few minutes.

Epson on Wednesday will officially announce their new high end Artisan line. The new line will launch with two new all-in-one printers, the Artisan 700 and my favorite the Artisan 800.

The Artisan 800 if the mother-load of all printers, it is wi-fi capable, has a 3.5 inch LCD touchscreen that only lights up the buttons you need to use at that moment, the screen will also allow you to control the printers functions, edit images (brighten, darken, rorate and even crop).

Dish Network today announced that it is the first company in the Pay-TV industry to offer all of its standard and High-Def channels in MPEG 4, but only on the east coast.

New customers in 21 designated markets in the eastern half of the U.S. who sign up for any DISH Network HD package will be the first in the nation to receive the industry’s most advanced delivery system on all televisions connected to DISH Network service. This includes all SD and HD programming broadcast in MPEG-4 via DISH Network’s award-winning MPEG-4 HD and HD DVR receivers – even further enhancing DISH Network’s already superior picture.

After a somewhat confusing law was passed in NY, Newegg.com began collecting taxes, as of this past Thursday August 21st 2008 Newegg stopped collecting NY State Tax.

In an email on the 22nd, Newegg informed its customers of the change, it also made NY residents aware that they are responsible for paying taxes for their purchases on their NY State income tax return, under the terms of the “use tax”.

I am new to photography, but on my first two photo shoots I lugged around my tx2000 notebook PC to check the pictures I had just taken.  I could’ve looked on the LCD screen on the back of the camera, but sometimes what you see on that screen isn’t what you always get.

The problem with taking my laptop is that I like to pack light and although the Nikon D60 is a small DSLR, the added 4 pounds the laptop adds to my bag are 4 pounds I wouldn’t mind shedding.

So when Epson asked if I wanted to take a look at their P-7000 I said yes, I even begged for them to send it on a Saturday as I would be leaving Sunday for Disneyland on business. Yes it was a business trip but I did get on a lot of rides before and after my business meeting with HP.