Tinna told me her friend made them. Ironically, they appeared in Fubiz today!
Category: stuff
Software, toys, gadgets and computers
Amazon’s Kindle screen failure and warrantee woes
Not cool.
I finally got around to calling Amazon about this. They claim it’s “impact damage not a manufacturing defect” so I have to pay $200 to replace it. “Amazon trains us, we’ve seen a lot of reports of just this sort of thing, and they say when we see diagonal damage, this is caused by impact and we don’t replace it. If you had horizontal or vertical lines it’s a failure of the circuitry and that’s a manufacturing defect.”
Let me be the first one to call bullshit on this.
Bag rack
Why is it that a notebook computer is designed completely differently from a dSLR camera? To torment me?
Any other photo/computer geeks and nerds out there way too many bags?
And yes, I recently gave away four bags before this photo was taken.
Find my iPhone
Well this solves one problem in the morning…
By the way, despite having purchased the iPhone 3G the day after release day, having a plan which I never use with infinite texts stuck on, I don’t qualify for discounted pricing until 12/13/2009.
I’m curious how AT&T does that computation. Some sort of cost-benefit on when I’m might leave them vs. when they lose Apple exclusivity?
The pocket digicam
I haven’t written about photography in a while. This is probably a bad sign for my soul because it means I haven’t been shooting much lately.
I am in the market for a new digital camera and was wondering if you could recommend a worthy one. I’m far from a pro, so a basic point and shoot of awesome quality, reasonable price, and lightweight for 100 lb. weaklings would work just fine for me. Someone said I should get a Sony Cybershot. Any recommendations?
I’m always getting e-mails and IMs like this. Because I carry around an expensive camera, people assume I have an opinion. It’s been years since I’ve actually written about this and I don’t even shoot this sort of camera anymore. So what advice to give?
Continue reading about Entry level camera purchasing advice after the jump
Price is a bad thing in recessions
I’ve mentioned the Laptop Hunter ads before. And, if you haven’t gathered, I think it is the first smart campaign from Microsoft in a long time. The reasoning is that portraying Mac owners as “style over substance” and “too cool” hits the right polarizing note during tough economic times.
Sure it’s offensive and not always true, but you have to give them props for being clever.
It is possible, however, to go too far.
What’s wrong with the Laptop Hunter campaign? Well there are arguments about “the facts” (low resolution, slower RAM, etc), but it’s hard to ding Microsoft for that and not say that similar over-simplifications don’t occur in Apple’s Get A Mac campaign. There’s also the issue that the ads seem more about selling HP products, than Microsoft ones. But it’s their money. 🙂
Besides, television advertising has never been about the facts, it’s basically an appeal to emotion.
Instead, the weakness of the campaign centers around a disturbing trend among these ads: they focus on cost, not value.
Continue reading about Understanding downturns after the jump
CableBox
The CableBox
I like to wait at least a day to mull over a purchase, sale or no sale. But I was waiting months on a purchase of some stuff, so tacking on a <a href="http://www.bluelounge.com/cablebox.php" title="CableBox—Blue LoungeBlueLounge CableBox (or two) to my A+R order didn’t seem such a bad idea.
Usually snap buying decisions are a bad idea, but this one turned out not so bad.
Who knew a bunch of plastic boxes with cutouts could do so much!
Continue reading about More shots of the CableBox after the jump
Last day for MacHeist
Just a reminder that this is the last day to Last day to purchase the MacHeist bundle. I’ve been buying these since they used to be co-produced with MacUpdate, and now it’s almost just a habit on the off chance that I might need one of the applications. Usually just needing one offsets the price of the bundle.
Just recently, everything got unlocked.
Because of this I’ve found I own a lot of duplicates. I thought I’d go over some of them just FYI for Mac Users.
EarthLED
Since I recently wrote about LED traffic lights, I thought some people might be interested to know that I got some EarthLED replacement light bulbs for my ambient lamp.
Here is what the lightbulb looks like:
Continue reading about More than you need to know about LED lightbulbs after the jump
Microsoft’s answer to Ellen Feiss
A continuation of my Why WROX failed theory:
Last week…
Me: Lauren is a cheap ass. 😀
M—: Oh yeah, I saw that yesterday… It’s a good commercial though. 🙂
Me: Only because she’s a redhead.
Me: Admit it.
M—: Haha.
The beauty of this ad is that finally Microsoft hits the right buttons in these politically divisive and tough economic times.
Too bad there’s no mention of Microsoft products. Seems like HP should be airing this.