Have you ever wondered why retailers charge $40 for a measly 8GB USB key? It’s all about being lame. Go get a micro usb card adapter for $7 and an 8GB microSD card for $10 and save yourself some money.
Once you have the card reader, microSD cards are fairly inexpensive and you can quadruple your storage over a traditional USB memory stick.
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I got my Nintendo DS Lite yesterday, yay! It’s pretty neat and with the R4DS in combination with a microSD card – it will hold everything I need to play. So far i’m really diggin’ the split screen action – we’ll see how attached I get to it!
So one of the gifts that I received this past Christmas was a gently used Wii from Gene. I went out to Game Stop and got Rayman Raving Rabbids (its the original one so its on sale) and this game is a lot of fun!
Its got 70 or so mini-games in it – they’re not horribly long and all of them involve using both the Wii remote as well as the nunchuck together. My favorite mini game so far is the one where four “rabbids” go into four outhouses on the beach and you hear them grunting, filling the pond with some brown trout so to speak. Your job is to keep the doors shut as they slowly open; if they open all the way the rabbids get mad and hit you with a toilet plunger.
There’s a lot of other ones, and they come in groups of five. You’re stuck in this coliseum and you have four tunnel choices – each one takes you to a different mini game. Once you beat the four, the main gate opens and you get to play a first person shooter against hordes of angry bunnies armed with your trusty toilet plunger gun. This is totally the highlight, and storming the beach resort at night, or roaming the O.K. Corral with your plunger gun is more exciting than you’d think.
I’d definitely recommend this to anyone with a Wii. And if you decide you don’t like it… sucks for you!
The Google Chrome Beta released today, its an open source browser written by Google that has a lot of cool features, like Dynamic Tabs, Crash Control, Safe Browsing, etc. you can learn more here (streaming videos) or read the cartoon version explaining the new features.
One of the most interesting features that I see is that each tab has its own thread, so crashes, data, anything that happens is contained within that tab. Because of this, if any web application being used crashes, only that specific tab crashes, instead of the entire browser. Pretty innovative.
In addition, as far as I know the Google browser doesn’t suffer from the same issue as Internet Explorer (haven’t tried in Firefox) where with many tabs open in the browser (and the browser minimized for an extended period of time) restoring the browser to open requires a wait time for all the pages to load in the browser.
There are other features that i’ve yet had a chance to play with, but as far as I can tell, this is the most stable initial release of any Beta software that I have played with.
So far, I really like the simple, yet feature-full browser. I’ve now switched over to this as my main browser of choice.
Junked the old site and installed WordPress. Why? Because I’m lazy and this makes it so I can be even more lazy. I know you care.