I’ve been trying to figure out what to get a friend of mine for her birthday. Carl’s comment following Lotusphere gave me the idea. You may recall that Instant Technologies had some really cool candies made with their company name in them. Carl noted …
If anyone is interested we gave out just over half [...]

“Thank You” to my mom who recently shipped me a new pair of felted wool slippers. I had the very first pair she ever made but after years of running around in them, the bottoms finally wore out. Over Christmas, I found out she was making them again and immediately put in a request [...]

The map depicted here is part of the label found on many of the products from the Blue Crab Bay Co. I found this novelty food and gift outlet shortly after my first arrival to the Eastern Shore. If you like Old Bay seasoning you’ll like most of their food items - like [...]

For Christmas I gave myself a gift of the Mvix MX-780 media device and then questioned my choice and put my name in for a Popcorn Hour A-100. These are both Linux based media players capable of true HD 1080p output over HDMI. So, if/when I ever get that mighty big flat screen, I [...]

Well, I’ve been testing the Popcorn Hour A-100 and the MVix MX-780HD for a couple of weeks now and it’s a mixed review.
Both devices serve up media - video, music, and photos - and both support high-def content and output. Both are honest that their focus is video and the audio and photo support [...]