After being a longtime user of the Motorola V220 (yeah, super popular phone), I’ve finally upgraded to a new phone. At the AT&T store, there were quite a few choices of phones. There was the Blackberry/Palm collection, the 3G collection, the outdated Razr’s, and the supper crappy phone section. Considering I didn’t want a Blackberry [...]
Last Monday, I wrote about my new Macbook and its difficulty connecting to my 2wire 1800 HG wireless network. That same day, I received an email from an employee at Fon. He offered me a free router from them. I was really psyched for two reasons. One, it’s a free router that I really needed [...]
Just a few days ago, Ben Hummel and I made my third and his fifth appearance on the View Finder Blog podcast. This week, fellow RandomShapes blogger Jordan Chark joined us for a great 3 person review show. This weeks topics covered Safari 3, MacBooks, my new Incase sleeve for Macbook (as well as two [...]
On TechCrunch I saw a post about this new independent feature film being posted on YouTube. Being a film appreciator (and an advocate of YouTube), I had to check it out. I wasn’t expecting what I found. The film was amazingly well done, as if it had the backing of a large studio. The movie [...]
Probably the best discovery I ever made (relating to plane travel) is to buy a portable DVD player. Are you the kind of person who hates 2-3 hours on a flight across the country? Sick of reading a book and then getting queasy? Tired of that baby crying behind you as you try to keep [...]
I got a free upgrade to the pro version of an app called SWF & FLV Player. This application is made by a company called Eltima. You might know them for their pro-level Flash apps like Flash Optimizer. SWF & FLV Player is offered as a freeware. You can upgrade to pro for $19.95. [...]
I read the book E by Matt Beaumont a few years ago. Over the last couple weeks, I reread it. It reminded me just how great this book was. You can pick this book up here at Amazon. This book is very similar to those books that are a series of letters except this book [...]
Dustin Bachrach is an 18 year old Rice student and developer for both OS X and the web. He also deals a lot with design work and Photoshop. He blogs technology, Apple, programming, and life.
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