January 2005 - Posts

I need your help......
......to get a free Mac Mini. If you're up for the challenge, then click here: Follow this link.

All you have to do is sign-up on the site, complete one of the free offers. If you'd like a free Mac too, then get 10 friends to do the same. Next on the agenda will be sitting back and waiting for your Mac to arrive.

So Follow this link, and be a FRIEND!! I'll promise to say nice things about you and stuff :)

-Eric.

Posted 27 January 2005 01:07 PM by eking1013 | 1 comment(s)
Family tech support
I don't know anyone who works in IT and enjoys being the designated tech support for their family. Worse yet, it seems that they ALL own a computer. My aunts, uncles, and even my grandparents have pc's. Tomorrow I get to drive for an hour to my grandparents house so I can help setup their new Dell. I really don't mind doing it, but since I will be a person that laid eyes on the new computer and touched it, apparently that means that I am the person to call for any and all abnormalities. Lucky me. I'm OK with helping someone to install something and get it working, but I HATE being called if it decides to stop working. Don't call me. Call tech support. That is what they are paid to do.
Posted 07 January 2005 08:43 AM by eking1013 | 6 comment(s)
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2 things I would like to see....
These just popped into my head while working today, and I thought I would share:

1. Video output on the Pocket PC. How about the small 1/8 inch jack like all consumer model digital cameras have?  I like to connect my digital camera to televisions at friends / families houses to share digital pictures. Wouldn't it be great to do that with your PocketPC? Instead of taking my laptop to a meeting to make a presentation on the projector, I could just copy my presentation to my PocketPC and bring it along. Connect the Pocket PC to the projector and wammo! Done deal.

2. And along that note, I thought "Hey, wouldn't it be cool for projector manufactorers to start using some lightweight form of Windows embedded with a basic PowerPoint viewer?" Then slap a USB port on there, and there ya go! Just copy your presentation to a key-disk memory stick, and take it to your meeting. Nothing else necessary.

Anyway, I just thought I would brainstorm aloud today.........

-Eric.
Posted 04 January 2005 02:40 PM by eking1013 | no comments
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