Music to go (2)

Last September I wrote that I almost bought the iRiver iHP-100 MP3 player. One of the problems I had with it, was the fact that was just 10 gig. Well low and behold: there now is the iRiver ihp-120 which packs 20 gig of discspace. They just released it on oktober 14th. Here is the CNET iRiver iHP-120 Review. Also, the price tag was a bit steep (at least here in the Netherlands): Euro 475,-. Yesterday I walked into the Media Markt (a huge electrical appliances store here) and saw they lowered the price of the iHP-100 to Euro 399,- […]

Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne

It is out now: Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne: PC game play at its best! I just bought it yesterday and I played it already for hours! This game is truly a great combination between action and cinematics. If you played the previous Max Payne, this sequel is a must buy! If you were diasppointed in the Matrix game, you now have a chance to see what ” bullettime” really was meant to be! This game was the first one to really capture the action style that made the movie The Matrix so great. The storyline is […]

Smooth as a Panther

If you read my Blog you might have noticed that I installed a pre-release of OSX Panther earlier this month. Well, it had some problems with it that I didn’t anticipate. For instance, my browser (Safari off course) didn’t accept any input from my keyboard anymore (which is a bit of a problem when typing an url) and it also ignored my scrollwheel on my mouse. Also it seemed that my bluetooth was completely gone. Other than it seemed to run smooth and I have to say that it also fixed some annoying problems (more on that later). Off couse […]

DVD2one – The ultimate DVD processing tool

Say you have shelled out some $30 for the DVD LOTR Two Towers and you want to loan out that DVD to your neighbour. Wouldn’t you be mad when they return it with scratches on it? I rent a lot of DVD’s and when you get them they look like crap. It is as if people use them as a frisbee or a coaster or let their dog chew on it. That’s the reason I just make a bakcup of my DVD’s and give the copy to whoever wants to see it. That way I make sure my DVD’s stay […]

Mac to the Max: Panther

People who have read my Blog before, know that I have a very nice Apple Macintosh Powerbook G4 from my work. I had a choice between a regular laptop or the slick and sleek G4 – running OSX which is basically a Unix flavor OS. Well, for a technology freek like me that was a clear cut choice. I got the Mac. I have been a real fan of OSX from day 1. It is by far the best OS in terms of stability for a laptop I have seen so far. I have run many different OS systems from […]

Peer 2 Peer telephony brought to you by KaZaa

Talk about viral marketing! Recently a friend of mine told me to check out some new software that makes it possible to make VoIP calls (VoIP = Voice over IP) to anyone on the internet. Now, this has been around for years already but usually its a big hassle to set it up especially if you have a firewall our router. Without getting to technical; VOIP (which is also possible with MSN Messenger, Netmeeting etc.) uses so called port numbers to communicate (a port is an endpoint to a logical connection and the way a client program specifies a specific […]

CNN.com – 261 music file swappers sued

CNN reports this morning that261 music file swappers are sued but also that an amnesty program has been unveiled. The federal lawsuits and amnesty program are the latest moves by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in its fight against illegal music file trading on the Internet. According to them filesharing is responsible for a 31 percent drop in compact disc sales since mid-2000. So what do you do? First they tried to put the companies out of business that were making programs to share (like Napster). They did succeed in that; most filesharing sites were using a central […]

Music to go?

This weekend I almost bought a MP3 player: the iRiver iHP-100. This neat little machine at first seemed some good competition for the Apple iPod. It is very nice looking and has some interesting features. For instance it has built-in radio, 16 hours playtime (or so they claim), optical in and output and you can record with it. It also supports most current formats including WMA. They sell it here at the local Media Markt for about 475 Euro. It seemed a good deal. But now there is the brand new Apple iPod in 10-20 and a whopping 40 Gig!! […]

SomaFM: Internet Radio

Want to listen to streaming audio? Do you like lounge, triphop, downtempo fuzed jazz and other music? Then check out SomaFM, it is listener supported, commercial free Internet Radio. I listen to it at work, at home and about everywhere else where I have internet. I really love Internet radio. You can listen to it almost anywhere (if you have internet) and the cool thing is that there are so many channels out there that are “special interest” which means a lot of so-called “non-mainstream” music. One of my other favourites used to be Massinova but they are offline now […]