Wandering Road

I just learned through Lifehacker that the NPR program “Fresh Air” is now available through podcast.  I am so excited!  I love “Fresh Air”.  It is my favorite NPR program.  Unfortunately, I rarely get to listen to it since it is on between 11 and 12 here in Dallas.  Now I’ll get to hear it […]

Another free software recommendation courtesy of Lifehacker.  Launchy is a launcher app for Windows.  You can think of it as an alternative to using your start menu or desktop icons.  I don’t know about you, but my start menu keeps growing larger and larger.  I try to control this and organize it into a folder […]

I recently discovered the free app KeePass through Lifehacker. KeePass is used to help manage all your various login ids and passwords. If you are like me, you have many different ids and passwords for countless websites. This site requires your id is an email address, this site requires your id is […]

Bobby got a new cell phone recently.  It is the Palm Treo 700p.  After taking a look at it myself, I’ve started to get jealous.  The problem is that I just renewed my Sprint contract at the beginning of the year for 2 years.  So if I wanted to buy the 700p and stay with […]

I found a great new extension for Firefox called FoxyTunes. It is a small extension that controls your music software (iTunes, Windows Media, WinAmp, etc) from within Firefox.  By default it puts a small set of buttons in your status bar.  The feature I like best is that you can have it show the artist […]

In case you had not heard (where have you been?), this week Apple introduced updated iPods, Nanos, and Shuffles.  And the timing could not be more perfect.  My 3 year old iPod has finally died.  Well, the battery has.  It can only keep a charge for a few minutes.  If I want to play it […]

The Tivo in our bedroom had been slowly dying for the past few months. In the beginning it was slow or unresponsive to commands from the remote.  Then in the past month or two it would have one or two small skips in a recorded program. Then it became a small skip every […]

I just heard about The Urban Dictionary on NPR. You should check out. Pretty cool site. They have all sorts of words you won’t find in your old Oxford English Dictionary.

I stumbled across a great site today called Kill Bill’s Broswer. It is all about switching from IE to Firefox. Kind of funny!. And I like their tribute to the Kill Bill movie.
Apparently, this site is just an offshoot of a larger movement to destroy IE. They call the movement Explorer […]

Yesterday morning I stumbled across a link for MediaPortal. It is open source software for turning a PC into a multi-media center for your living room. It is for playing music, watching videos, displaying pictures, watching/recording tv, and so much more. I want it mainly for it’s music and picture capabilities. […]