Logitech V550

I've been searching for a wireless mouse for the past week and bought and returned 3 mouses before setting on a Logitech V550. I've found that for me, someone with really big hands, a small mouse is no good as well as a mouse with a thumb grip on both sides (a dedicated right-hand mouse would be fine, OTOH). I went with this mouse becasue it was somewhat normal shaped and it happened to be on sale at Fry's for $30. I kinda wanted a mouse with extra buttons but I think the hyper scroll wheel was a decent tradeoff. It's also nice that it has a micro-sized receiver which can be stored inside the mouse, a super-long battery life, an optional docking clip to hook the mouse onto, and an actual on/off button. I had to download the drivers to get it working with my PC but this seems to be unique to my PC as all the wireless mouse I've tried needed the dedicated driver software to work on it. OTOH, my netbook seems to be able to use them straight out of the box which is apparently how they're supposed to work. Hopefully the mouse will work out for me.

A reason I like my iPod Touch: potentially one of many?

I'm driving my mother today and she wants to visit Super H Mart, a Korean supermarket in Houston. Unfortunately, she forgot exactly where it is and I've only been there a couple times and couldn't be bothered to remember where either. So we make a quick stop at a library which happens to be in the general direction the supermarket should be and I whip out the iPod. It instantly connects to the library's wifi network and I launch the Maps app and type "super h-mart". It instantly brings up the map with the location marked; I tap on it and up comes the address info including ph # and website even. 1 tap saves it to Contacts and another couple of taps draws up a potential route from where we're at to the supermarket. If this had been an iPhone, we wouldn't even need to make that stop at the library since there's 3G connection. It's like straight out of the Apple commercials. They've really made a great PDA/smartphone product.

Where I Don't like to shop :p

J-List sucks. Shopping there is a fairly shitty experience if you're trying to browse for very specific items. On top of that, they'll rape you on the prices if they think they can get away with it. I'll say it again: J-List sucks.

The Resurrection of my DS Lite

For the longest time, I've ignored my DS Lite while I've been playing games on my iPod Touch. But recently, my brother got a DS Lite of his own. He got his DS mainly for his son but being a former gamer, he wants to try some games too. So he requested some games from me which in turn caused me to look at my DS library and hence resurrected my DS playing. That hasn't stopped me from playing games on my iPod however. :p

Asus Eee 100HD

I got a netbook a week ago from Target for $250. It's an Asus Eee 1000HD; specs are 10" screen, 900mhz Celeron, 1GB RAM, and 160GB hard drive. It runs faster than my oldest XP PC which I now plan to give away since it's now obsolete. My mother is trying to learn to use it but her biggest problem is double-clicking. She has trouble with it whether she's using a mouse or a touchpad. I think she might do better on a trackball.

iPod Touch

I have a DS and GB Micro but I haven't touched either for a long time since getting a iPod Touch. Too many good, cheap, and innovative games on the Touch platform. It's more lightweight than both DS and PSP, have more innovative games than the DS, and games cost cell phone game prices (IOW very cheap). You can even play bishoujo games on it. Try that on any other smartphone outside of Japan (yes, they have bishoujo games on cell phones in Japan).

New PC and other things...

Last week was a busy week. I got sick, built a new PC, bought a netbook, and I got sick. I'm still sick. It seems to be a possible cold/allergy hybrid. My family has a history of allergies on my father's side so I'm extremely worried. I've been pretty much allergy free up until now so I'd hate for anything to start happening now.

I built a PC to replace my current one which is roughly 5-6 years old. It's an Athlon 2400 on 2 gigs on non dual channel RAM. The new setup is an AMD 7750 dual-core with 4GB dual-channel RAM so it's a bit of a step up in various ways. I was a bit worried about putting on the heatsink & fan since my last experience had me using a blade screwdriver to carefully latch one of those things onto the motherboard but this time was a lot different since the heatsink & fan setup has a built-in lever that you use to tighten the heatsink in place once you place the latches onto the hooks on the motherboard. It made the process so much easier and safer (for the mobo!). It's a good time to build PCs. :)

I also got a netbook, an ASUS EEE 1000HD that I got from Target for $250, a very nice price for a netbook with a 10" screen. So far I'm liking it a lot.