IT Legends - Tech in Connecticut

OK, so I noticed one of the most popular tags on this site was “rants”. I’m really not that negative a guy, though granted I did start this site to start ranting about a recent Dell experience. So I thought, well hey there are a lot of products I use that I also really like! Why not mention a couple here.

I just recently bought a TomTom Go 720. It’s pretty neat. Has handsfree with my phone, multiple methods of getting audio to me (via internal speaker, line-out, wired headset 2.5mm cell style, and FM transmitter), and an expansion slot for SD cards that I can put my Security Now podcasts on. The player is a lot better than the Windows Mobile player on my phone, so that makes me happy. It also has voice-activated commands! Yeah, I can talk to my car now. “Computer… navigate to…” almost like Star Trek. (oh god, I’m such a dork)

There is a feature that doesn’t work, but its because of my phone and not the TomTom. It will use the data plan on a PDA phone to update things like traffic. I’m considering buying a phone on the Bluetooth compatability list (scroll down and you’ll see a link for the compatibility list), but none of the PDA phones I’d be interested in do anything more than my current phone - which is just for handsfree.

Buy your own! I bought mine “recertified” - cheaper and works just fine for me.

TomTom GO 720 4.3″ Automotive GPS Navigation TomTom GO 720 4.3″ Automotive GPS Navigation

I’d say the Sci-Fi channel was killing me, since they’ve made some cancellations that didn’t please me in the past (Firefly and Farscape), but I think this one is purely a result of NBC’s acquisition of the Sci-Fi channel. No, it’s not another cancellation. First, I’m annoyed that I cannot continue to buy Battlestar Galactica (the new series) on iTunes anymore (more…)

So I’ve changed my theme to default because the one I chose and started modifying for myself doesn’t work in Internet Explorer. Grr! Damn you, though I’m not sure who to damn. The coders who gave it to me for free or Microsoft for making a crappy web browser. Blame them all, perhaps?

I have been wanting to watch Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World for a few years now. I never got around to it and when it was out in the theater, I wasn’t going to the theater much. So its on hulu.com, I figure I’ll watch it, even though I have the annoying stutter going on. I have a theory that it just could be my router. I’ll be replacing my home router with the (more…)

So one of the software people at hulu responded to one of my hulu posts. So far, ilya has been pretty great in leading me to some help topics. I’ll let you know if we can narrow down my issue. So far, we’ve identified that I “shouldn’t” have one based on my computer and Internet stats.