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Archive for May 7th, 2007

First public beta of JiveTalk for Blackberry released

May 7

Posted by Tejas in Cell Phones, Tech News | No Comments

I just tried out this killer multi-client chat app and it truly is an evolution from previous chat applications for the Blackberry. It's currently in public beta so it's free during this time, although not sure what they're thinking of charging once it's officially released. I highly recommend anybody who is remotely curious - no anyone who HAS a Blackberry - go to www.beejive.com/download on your Blackberry bro [...]

Toshiba HD-DVD and Planet Earth (HD-DVD), what a great couple

May 7

Posted by Tejas in Consumer Electronics, Personal, Tech News | No Comments

So I know it might sound stupid to jump on the proverbial HD-format bandwagon since there really hasn't been a clear winner between HD DVD and Blu-Ray, I figured I might as well jump in. I went ahead and ordered a Toshiba HD-A2 HD DVD player from Amazon and of course the Planet Earth HD DVD set (original BBC series) to accompany it. I got the HD-A2 pretty quickly and it was very easy to setup via HDMI to my O [...]

Enable DreamScene in Vista Home Premium

May 7

Posted by Tejas in Bargains, Computers, Software, Tech News | 8 Comments

For those of you who have Vista Home Premium and are jealous of those folks that have Vista Ultimate because of among other things the whole DreamScene spectacle, never fear because enterprising "hackers" are here. While browsing the Usenet via Google groups I came across a post by someone with a link to a ZIP file containing some DLLs, a registry import and quite detailed instructions. Figuring it's worth givin [...]

It’s been a long time…

May 7

Posted by Tejas in Offbeat, Personal | No Comments

Holy cow, it's been a while since I posted last on the blog. I've been extremely busy (not really) with work and personal stuff...that and I'm also too lazy to keep this thing up to date. Since I don't have any ads on here I don't make any money so hence no incentive to keep it jammin' as they say. In any case, I've made myself a promise to try and at least write 2-3 posts a week starting today - my birthday - f [...]