For the price of a US dollar, our Panopticonic universe just became a little smaller — or larger if you’re a fan of being spied upon by strangers — with the release of “Surveillance Shaker” a new iPhone App that now lets you, with the shake of your iPhone, silently surveil the world without the watched knowing you’re watching.
I have previously confessed in the public square that I have an Ito En green tea addiction. Today, I am pleased to also confess, I am now addicted to Ito En’s most delicious green tea yet: The Sencha Shot!
I now have a new 2.4GHz SDD unibody MacBook with 4GB of DDR3 RAM in my hot hands and this thing screams it’s so on fire! Now I sort of understand why Apple doesn’t think it needs a Netbook like the awful Sony Vaio P or the right fine ASUS 1000HE. The MacBook is the supreme computer, netbook and secret lover any passion could want, and I can’t imagine why anyone would touch a MacBook Air when they can have the new MacBook instead.
On Friday, I received the black version of the new kicking ASUS Eee PC 1000HE — the ultimate netbook, at a third of the price and twice the computing power, of the the awful Sony Vaio P — and the first thing I did after unboxing, and seeing the ancient Windows XP interface staring back at me, was to install my trusty beta of Windows 7 Ultimate.
Continue reading → Installing Windows 7 Ultimate on an ASUS Eee PC 1000HE
A little over a year ago, I wrote my first Kindle review, and now it’s time for me to review the new Kindle 2 from Amazon. I am amazed at some of the lousy reviews I’ve read so far of the Kindle 2 — not that the authors don’t like the device, they do — but rather because it’s obvious they have never really used a Kindle every single day as part of their information dissemination system. I use my Kindle all day every day. I pay my own way buying Kindles and content. I apologize upfront for the awful iPhone 3G images of my Kindle — that’s the price we pay for quickness and speed in getting this review online. You can still tell the differences between the first Kindle and the Next Generation, though. The most obvious, and welcome, change in the Kindle 2 is the information bar is now at the top of the screen where it belongs so you can see, upfront, how your Whispernet internet signal is doing and the status of your battery! Images on the Kindle 2 are also deeper and richer than the first iteration.
Janna gave me a wonderful present last night: Jack The Cat immortalized forever in a ten-pound 3D Hologram cube of optical glass. Jack hasn’t been feeling well — he’s doing better now — so it was a delight to see Jack-in-the-Cube’s glimmering face looking back at me in a 3D Hologram.
Continue reading → The Looxis 3D Hologram Optical Cube Review
Twitter is the most Panopticonic method of self-regulating your own incarceration: You’re basically talking to yourself out loud without any real context because you’re typing; but when a friend challenged me — nay, DARED ME — to try Twitter: “How can you hate it if you never tried it?” The gauntlet was thrown, the face was slapped, the dare: Accepted! You can see my Twitter homepage below: http://twitter.com/BolesBlogs
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