Today Zune realised the new Zune 4.0 software. Here are my initial impressions…. (this is by no means a full review) I like: The new Zune mini player (Zune 1.0 had one and it was one of the best things about the program, but for some reason they got rid of it in Zune 2.o, [...]
UPDATE: The name “Schlossenburger” won! All right, so it has been a little over a week since my last post about my new car. As promised, below is a poll where you can vote on your favorite name for my new car. I picked my top 5 choices out of over 20 name ideas that [...]
The people who know me well will know that I used to drive an old 1993 Chrysler Plymouth grand voyager SE. Well it broke and thanks to the government we could get more money for it then it was worth, so today we took it to Glendale KIA (they were actually super nice and non-pressuring) [...]
During the past few days you may have been thinking, “Why has Nate not made any new posts”. Well dear readers, I recently made the mistake of buying an Xbox 360 have spend much of my free time on it. Below is my gamer card. Put your gamertag here too.
About 3 weeks ago I got around to bulding a new computer for myself. I have yet to post its specs… that is until now: More details about my computer Component Details Subscore Base score Processor Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz 5.6 5.6 Determined by lowest subscore Memory (RAM) 4.00 GB [...]
Apple has long been known for its amazing business practices (It was hard to type that without laughing). However in a bazaar turn of events today it seems like Apple is stealing a business practice that has long been one of Microsoft’s flagship practices. Even since the Zune 30gb was released Microsoft has always given away [...]
I know what you must be thinking… “Is it really that time of year all ready!!?!?!?”. Well I have some news for you, IT IS! Yes that is right today is Bill Gates Day! And with today being Bill’s last day in office I thought of no better way to celebrate it than to put [...]
Download this video in DVD ISO format here. On Windows: After download use UlitimateZip to right click the file and click extract all, next burn the ISO image using ISO Recorder. On Mac: The file should extract itself after download, next use Disk Utility to burn the ISO image to a DVD. Note: By clicking [...]
All right, so I know that normally this blog is anti-mac, but I am posting this for a misguided friend of mine. What is this you ask, well it’s a zipped folder that has two different things in it. The first thing that it has is icons that you can use to replace the old [...]
Dollar VS. New Shekel over the past 5 years: over the past 2 years: over the past year: over the past 3 months: Does any one else notice the general down ward spiral of the dollar??!?!!?
Hi all, I have safely landed in Israel and will be there for the next FOUR months. More updates to come. (I have had almost no breaks since I landed). Here is a picture of my computer in Israel to hold you over until I get time to put more up.
As anyone who has ever looked at the comic xkcd will know, xkcd is awesome! And it seems to be getting more and more popular and even people who know nothing about computers are looking at it. An example of this is my friend(who knows almost nothing about computers) who asked me if I had hear of xkcd. [...]
In Sweden digital piracy is legal. Coincidently one of the biggest torrent trackers is a Swedish website, a torrent tracker is a website that links you to torrents that then tell your computer where to get a file from. So basically a torrent tracker does not actually have any pirated content on it, it just tells [...]
I made an image to help me study the rules for oxidation numbers. Rules are credit my chemistry teacher, image is credit me. (click on the image below to see it full size)
I made an image to help me study the 8 steps for balancing redox reactions. If you need help then you can use it too. Credit for the 8 steps goes to my chemistry teacher, credit for the image goes to me. (click on the image below to see it full size)
As you may all ready know I recently entered the “Pete Conrad Spirit of Innovation Award ” but did not qualify as a finalist. However another team from my school did and I went to New Mexico to help then with their entry. Well they won the award! They are being interviewed a lot now and [...]
Well the Zune wins again, a popular mac fanboy site called ”applematters” has written a article on why the zune kills the ipod. The post is at http://www.applematters.com/index.php/section/comments/why-the-zune-will-outdo-the-ipod-111/ , alot of the mac fanatics’ comments are funny. Also some of the pages from the Zune 2.0 tech support traning manuel have been leaked, you can see them here.
Set to be released on November 13, the new 2nd generation Zunes (Zune 2) will have many new features. They are going to have remote live TV recording, podcasts, a new GUI(graphical user interface), wireless syncing, and a lot more. Well normal one would expect Microsoft to not care about their old devices since they now have [...]
Aren’t you tired of your mobile communications device (aka. your cell phone) not containing enough Harry Potter? Well if you receive the new harry potter DVD which is set to be released on December 11 then you may be able to put the latest Harry Potter movie on your device. According to Jim Wuthrich, Warner senior [...]
Have you ever noticed that many of Apple’s ads seem way to cool to be made up by a corporate entity? Well so have the artists that Apple stole ideas from. You can find more about this at: This Engadget Post
Here are 2 easy steps to making vista boot faster. The first thing that you can do is to make your background a solid color. To do this: 1) right click on your desktop 2) select personalise and then desktop background 3) go to solid colors and pick a color The other was to make vista [...]
Yes, it’s ture. The NateRocks.com store have moved. It is now at http://www.printfection.com/naterocks . Happy shopping….
A new law signed last Thursday by Gov. Schwarzenegger (R) of California will take effect on July 1, 2008. The law will make it illegal for any one age 15.5-17 to use a cell phone, laptop, pager, ultra mobile PC, or a PDA while driving. The fine for a fist offence is $20 and $50 for each additional offence [...]
I just opened my first online store. It is located at http://www.cafepress.com/naterocks. Right now it is just a bunch of 1337 related items, but I will be adding more soon.