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DirecTV confirms HD DVR / receiver glitch

leetlife — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:28:00 +0000

Direct Tv users should read up for more info head over to Engadget!

DbPowerAmp: Solving All Your Itunes Hassle

leetlife — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:15:00 +0000

How many times have you re-done your Itunes library? How many times have you had album art problems, Dividing your albums up and making Itunes hard to handle? I had all these and more. I finally broke down and searched the web for a tool that would make my life much better. I have since taken this thing in and made it part of my music lifestyle.

What does it do? It does allot but what i use it for is to convert all my media to one format. (mp3) so that Itunes will accept it and make It all work as it should.

It is super lightweight. Very basic but very powerful. You can select a whole folder pick what you want it to convert to and walk away. It’s very fast and you loose 0% quality they really sound great!

Once its all said and done Itunes accepts your files with ease! it will even keep your old files but make a uniformed version for use elsewhere.

It has a trial version and as far as i have seen its free forever and converts music fine. Not sure what features the paid version offers but I can say that this thing is made well so there probably great!

To get a copy of this awesome little tool head on over to dBpoweramp

New Gadget Store Added to the Site

leetlife — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:11:00 +0000

If you visit the website you will see the Store menu item now.

I like to think of it as more of a service than a store, It links to amazon and not product’s we have and ship. The idea behind this is for us to round up some of the best rated and highest quality gadgets and tech stuff and put it in one area. There is allot of junk on the shelves that try to knock off good tech. I don’t like wasting money and I figure no one else does either. So we took some time out to make this little side project website for you!

Amd break-up?

leetlife — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 03:58:00 +0000

It’s not you, It’s me

Amd’s CEO Dirk Meyer said that he has a “significant announcement” to make tomorrow. There has been allot of rumors that they are going to break up. With Intel selling to apple this might have hurt them as mac seem to be growing pretty rapidly after everyone in America has that IPhone in there pocket. AMD were behind for the longest time when it came to the advanced core stuff that Intel was doing. They recently have been catching up but at the cost of failure? Who knows I guess we have to wait and see!

Update: The WSJ claims that it is a breakup! aww

The Website is done!

leetlife — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 03:21:00 +0000

Well for now, I’m sure I will be tweaking the heck out of it and it will never be done but for the most part everything is there. We have grown very much so over the last month. This is pretty sweet! I wanted to start a blog but things just started to snowball and grow a mind of its own!

I want to thank everyone that have checked us out. We have had some pretty good traffic and are growing pretty well in the search engines. We have plans for a dot com coming soon so look for that!

Again thanks for anyone who has checked us out! Tell your friends!

Website

Is Steve jobs Still Alive?

leetlife — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:46:00 +0000

Uhh, oh shit!, oh wait…. YEP! There he is, He was hiding again

Like the Mac book style? Toshiba’s got you covered

leetlife — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:39:00 +0000

For around $1200 you can get a mac book-esque laptop from Toshiba. The E105 just posted online at best buy, No word if they are in stores. This thing has the Mac book form factor down pretty well. Elegant, simple design. It also has a pretty aggressive stat list for $1200

2.26GHz Core 2 Duo
1280 x 800 TruBrite LCD display
4GB of RAM
320GB hard drive
Intel 4500MHD integrated GPU.
802.11a/b/g/n
HDMI out
Vista Home Premium
Finger Print Reader

All of that for 1200? There is no good reason a Mac book lookalike isn’t on your desk!

Touch HD Update: Say Goodbye To Iphone?

leetlife — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:21:00 +0000

We reported on the touch HD some time ago. Speculating that it could be the first “Iphone Killer” I wanted to post an up-date to that post. The touch HD was released in Germany. Just minutes after the fact the Media exploded calling the Touch HD the first true Iphone Killer. So could it be? Or are those pesky Germans just out of their minds?

Everything you want to know about cloud computing!

leetlife — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 21:01:00 +0000

Allot of people agree that cloud computing is the future. We have seen a huge increase in cloud talk lately. Microsoft announced there “Cloud OS”, “Microsoft Cloud” the final name is to be released in a few weeks at there dev conference. Google has had us cloud computing for a while, whether you knew it or not. Gmail, Google Docs, Google Reader, Just about anything Google offers except sketch-up and chrome. Although chrome supports there cloud pretty well, maybe like an OS?

So we have all these clouds floating over our heads. There are tons more down the road were just getting into this next step in tech. Amazon has there cloud floating around, Microsoft is on the way, Goggles money cloud has been up there a while. What do I use? Will all cloud document’s work together? Are the company’s reading my documents when I save them on there server? What if the server is down?! What if all the clouds explode? AHHH!!!

A little overwhelming I know, Have no fear! I have been reading up, taking note and trying to myth bust and support the cloud! Allot of people in the business are still opposed to cloud computing. Putting there data on a company’s server is most of the argument. I agree with this argument to a certain extent. If its something you wouldn’t want anyone to know ever. Cloud computing isn’t the place for that information. Some people act like everything they touch should never be seen by anyone but them ever! Not that anyone at Google would look at it, chances are they wont. There is always that off chance of a corrupt worker that grabs a million or so documents and then leaves. Or the idea that Google was only created to watch everything we do!

So my first tip for cloud computing, Tax information, anything personal, I would back up on hardware. Cloud computing is not meant to replace everything we know about computing. Allot of people say it will replace installing application’s on our machines and go fully to the web. Even more so now that Google apps have offline support. If this is the future it won’t happen very soon and even if it does, no one is coming over to take your applications away so deal with that information the same way you do now.

Downtime, This is a big issue on the subject. Goggles Gmail had some outages. That’s always brought up. Outages happen i didn’t even experience the Gmail outage my Gmail has never not been available to me. Think about it there was an outage, but what’s the state of your Gmail? Its the same. It comes back up you collect the mail you missed and all the old stuff is there. I would not fear downtime In a few hours, business goes back to normal.

What if the service’s loose my work? This is unlikely but never say never. BACK UP! you back up your regular work so why not backup work done in the cloud. Never assume it will be there forever, It may only be there as long as the company or service is in business. With Google not sure if i would worry about money problems anytime soon. Cloud by cloud backing up could be a new concept. Back up on Google, and Microsoft! there is an idea, combine that with hardware and you’ve got a cheap raid 5 setup!

So to get on with my closing statement’s here, Embrace the clouds but always make sure that data your putting up there is,

A. Not too personal

B. Also stored on more than the cloud, Hardware Pref.

C. Have a good time and don’t sweat the scary cloud myths that float around.

I have prepared you for the worst. It’s not even that hard!

To those who are still like what good is cloud computing then? The idea in my opinion is that it is made so that you can log in and access everything in your daily work flow from any browser. Say your at a conference and you just got there, Your supposed to be speaking in three hours but you forgot your speech! No fear you saved it on a cloud computing service, Just grab your laptop or net book and give it a quick download and or print. Wasn’t that easy?

Leet Life Is Published!

leetlife — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:41:00 +0000

Well on Scribd Anyways! Heres what it will look like!

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