Now I’m part of the iCrowd

I finally caved and bought an iPhone. The tipping point was that my Verizon contract was up and I could save about $25/month by going to AT&T. (A friend of a friend is the store manager.)
It also helped that the iPhone 3Gs came out, offered a mature OS with a landscape keyboard and the big [...]

Mobile Tweeting with Pocketwit

Many months ago I joined the Twitter nation (tthrush, but don’t expect much, I mostly lurk) and eventually added a Twitter app to my cell.
At first I tried Twobile, but the interface was a bit lacking and the it could’ve been little quicker.
I’ve since settled on Pocketwit, another free client, this time from Google. The interface [...]

Dell now posting Outlet deals on Twitter

Thanks to G4TV for this nugget:
Dell is now offering Outlet deals via Twitter. You can follow here: http://twitter.com/DellOutlet
Update: Check out who the Dell Outlet is following, there are more deals to be tweeted.

Get your Cylon here!

Okay, this is too cool not to post: ThinkGeek has affordable Cylons for purchase.
I ordered one a few weeks ago and while anciously waiting I received a call from my brother-in-law thanking me for his new arrival. Since he was the last person I ordered stuff for, his shipping address was cached. So in my purchasing [...]

Geek Envy

Okay, I thought I was one of the cool kids for getting a 24″ LCD. But whiIe checking out the SBS Dvia Blog today I see this: Four 24″ monitors on a Vista system. If only I wasn’t spending money on food and gas…

Hand me my Sceptre

My new 24" Sceptre LCD monitor just arrived, in fact I’m looking using it now while writing this post. What I replaced was a very nice, but old and power hungry, 21" Dell Trinitron CRT which is now on Craigslist as I write.
I bought it from CompUSA for $329.41, with shipping and no tax (you’ll [...]