Product and service reviews
After about 1 month in repair, my Toshiba Portege m400 is finally back in my possession and I will never buy another Toshiba laptop again. What caused this long change of heart? Read on: 1) My laptop had problems freezing sporadically and at random times such as checking email or just browsing files. I call …
“You need to know the rules in order to break them.”-Peter Girardi From Aquent’s “Design Thinking Out Loud- What I didn’t learn in School“
“Don’t try to be original- try to be good.”-Paul Rand
For my UC Davis ECS courses, I needed to login to the cs computers remotely from my vista pc. I keep forgetting so here’s some basic steps:1) install Cygwin to get a basic unix terminal-like environment2) type “startx” to start an x terminal window3) ssh into the cs computers by filling in []: “ssh -XY …
Yay!! It’s finally here. I just received my new apple bluetooth keybard. It’s very slim and light. It takes 3 AA batteries and cost me $80 with free shipping. I love it, though I’ll have to get used to the button placement again. I think my toshiba’s keyboard is funny with the ~ button next …
I finally got a driver for my toshiba tablet pc. I can’t believe I didn’t know this existed! Now I can use the photoshop brushes effectively without sinking thousands on a cintiq display. Here’s the link (just in case): http://www.wacom.com/tabletpc.
I found this group of artists, Random International that created a paint roller so you can literally print on the wall. Check out the video:Pixelroller They also sell instant labeling tape that you just blacken out parts you don’t need to write messages. Not as cool as the pixel roller but it’s still afun idea. …
While surfing some of my webcomics, I found a link to a Japanese web award page ( I think ). What was cool about it was the use of flash to change to mouse pointer into well… a huge foam pointer/float carried around by a bunch of guys. It’s hilarious and worth a minute to …
I just was surfing apple’s website and came across some people I know. In Tokyo, one of our guest lecturers was Eric Cruz from W+K Tokyo Lab Studio. www.wktokyolab.com Here’s the link to apple’s short ad about them.http://www.apple.com/pro/profiles/wk/ “W+K Tokyo Lab is a new music label concept launched by Wieden+Kennedy Tokyo in 2003. Our mission …