Oregon Trail on the Apple II

How cool is this...you can play Oregon Trail on the old Apple II for free...click through the link to check it out...

Bard's Deals

I have been really behind posting in the blog...I hope to catch up soon. In the meantime here is a site that offers some pretty night discounts... http://www.bradsdeals.com/

Those poor MLB free agents

According to this article some MLB baseball free agents may not get all of the money they want! The pain...how will they live on only a few million per year?

New MacBook Video

It is actually kind of an interesting video. It goes through the process they follow to make the new MacBooks. 

Apple has new laptops coming

This week Apple is to release new laptops. The rumor is that they will carved out of a block of aluminum. 

Mac Rumors has the dirt! 

Why has this taken so long?

This seems like a no brainer! 

Wii is AOK!!

A link to an article about the Wi. It appears they will have plenty for the holidays. We can all sleep again! 

Fringe

This is a short review of a new TV show on Fox. I kind of like it. It reminds me of the X-files. 

NFL on NBC TV

I watched some of the Packers on the NBC sports website and I must say it was fantastic. It was great quality and offered stats and several different camera angles. Check it out! 

Google Chrome a Winner!

I must say, I have been using the new Google Chrome browser on my work PC and I really do like it. It is very fast and it adds a few new features. I like that when it opens it shows me the sites I visit most often - since I usually want to go to one of those places. It is really worth a download. 

Pop Cap Games

This site has some pretty neat online games.  You can download some of them and others are available to play online. 

Follow Games Via My iPod

I use my iPod touch to follow several baseball games at once. You can get a pretty neat App in the Apple App store to do this. Now if only the Brewers can hang on to make it all worth it!!!

Real DVD offers a DVD ripping Solution

A way to get DVD's onto your laptop. 

Lack of Posts

Sorry for the lack of posts. It has been a very hectic month or so. I plan to get back on track soon. 

Chrome Browser

Sorry I have been light on posts. I plan to correct that this weekend. Stay Tuned... In the meantime you may want to check out the Chrome browser from Google. Why we need a new browser is beyond me...but it might be worth a look.

Best of the Web?

This is a link to a site that offers the best of the web! It does link to some pretty interesting sites...a few of them I have featured here! 

Bandwidth Meter

If you have ever wondered if your computer's internet connection was slow you can now check it. I use this service from CNet.

Laptop Battery Life

This is an article about conserving battery life in your laptop. I think most of the suggestions are common sense but I did find a few nuggets such as;

Remember that, unlike older batteries, the now-standard lithium-ion ones
don't need to be fully discharged before you recharge. In fact, frequent full
discharging actually shortens battery life. However, some experts do recommend a
full discharge every 30 charges to preserve the accuracy of the built-in gauge
that tells you how much battery life you have left. The fact is that nobody
wants to be surprised when their laptop, which says it still has 30 per cent of
its power left, up and dies in the middle of a sentence and leaves them
screaming in despair.

Photo Stitch

I have been really busy lately and I have not had a chance to put together much of a blog post. Here is an interesting article about a site that "stitches" together your photos to make a 4D photo.

Back-Up to the web?

Yesterday I had blogged about the idea of backing up with an external hard drive. Another idea is to back up on the web. It is slower because you are backing up through a network connection but it does have an advantage of being off-site so if something happens to your facility your data is safe off-site. Here is an article with some additional details.