TiVo Tunes Up Series 3
Posted by Stephen in Personal, Terabyte home on 25. Oct, 2007 | View Comments
TiVo finally turned on the power of the HD platforms (the Series 3 and HD) with the 9.2 upgrade this week. This enables sharing of video between TiVos (even between standard-def and high-def units) as well as allowing uploads and downloads from PCs.
So now we can all enjoy our video away from the house. This [...]
Organizing Classical Music in iTunes
Posted by Stephen in Personal, Terabyte home on 18. Oct, 2007 | View Comments
I’m not really a classical guy, but I do have a few favorite classical selections in my collection. If you’re got any non-pop music at all, you’ve run into the same problem I have (and many others besides – you there, Jim?): the default way iTunes organizes music is really not any good for music [...]
Wow That’s One Amazing SUV!
Posted by Stephen in Personal on 18. Oct, 2007 | View Comments
I spotted this on a Ford commercial last night. Their new(ish) Edge SUV sure is fast! I imagine no other vehicle in any class even comes close to this top speed! Someone tell Bugatti and Pagani!
Update: Because I’ve been asked, here are the answers you seek:
The ad aired on the local educational [...]
Toot toot: SAN Expansion Best Practices
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Personal on 16. Oct, 2007 | View Comments
Another great tutorial by Stephen Bigelow is appearing this week in lots of TechTarget publications. It focuses on switch upgrade best practices, and again quotes that Foskett guy. He’s so smart…
Toot toot: Expanding Storage
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Personal on 11. Oct, 2007 | View Comments
Yeah, I know it goes against the current shrinking/greening storage meme, but I wanted to point out this excellent article on expanding disk arrays over at SearchStorage. Stephen Bigelow has written a number of these great tutorials, which should be required reading to new storage admins.
Oh yeah, and he quotes some Foskett guy in [...]
Toot Toot: Email Archiving e-Book Chapter 5
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Personal on 10. Oct, 2007 | View Comments
As I mentioned before, I’ve been working with a team at Contoural on an e-Book for TechTarget on the topic of email archiving. Chapter 5, which focuses on product selection, was just published. Go grab a copy for yourself!
Just Picked Up a Cheap Bluetooth Headset
Posted by Stephen in Personal on 08. Oct, 2007 | View Comments
So I was disappointed by the range and sound quality for my Cardo Scala 500 when used with the iPhone. It was good with the BlackBerry but so bad with the Apple that I ended up using the wired headphones most of the time.
Amazon.com Widgets
Today I stopped by the local Best Buy [...]
Music in the Wild World
Posted by Stephen in Apple, Personal, Terabyte home on 03. Oct, 2007 | View Comments
OK, so let’s get this whole new world of music straight…
Apple now allows iPhone and iTouch users to buy iTunes songs without a computer and they’ve teamed up with Starbucks to offer in-store song shopping, but not yet…
Amazon.com now sells real mp3s with no DRM or watermarking for less than iTunes, making Apple look like [...]
