I was a child of Lego.  Lego was my favorite toy ever when I was a kid.  I would constantly be building spaceships, robots, rockets and cars out of the brightly colored plastic bricks.  I would keep some models together for a long time and would horde my favorite pieces.

Well, Imagine walking into a vault and finding every one of the over 4000 sets of Lego ever made.  From the train set that activated when you whistled to the 1970-1980 time I lived through with space men and more.  The video Gizmodo shot is amazing!  Take a trip down memory lane over at Gizmodo and figure out how many of these sets you actually had!

Well we’ve seen the Centro come out on Sprint, then AT&T and finally on Verizon.  Verizon’s edition of the Centro is a nice blue color.

I love the color Verizon picked for their version of the Centro.  It’s a dark blue and almost unobtrusive.  It barely gets any attention.  It’s almost business like in appearance. Continue Reading

Have you ever had to take pictures of something you were selling on eBay, but you kept getting a horrible glare from the flash  I have had this happen many a time, and I have even had to struggle with this when taking pictures of things I review.  Well, I will struggle no more now that I have the Digital Concepts Lighting Studio, sent to me from Sakar International.

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A couple of weeks ago, I reviewed the 0.5 Watt Headlight by Coghlan’s.  This one isn’t as powerful, but is still enough to light the night for a whole summer’s worth of camp outs.

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I have a confession to make: I am a iPod owner who dislikes his iPod. I don’t hate the iPod; quite the contrary, I really like it but am frustrated by it’s caretaker, Apple. For everything Apple has done right, there’s lots of things that it has done wrong. For example, if you look at the files on the iPod itself you’ll see undecipherable file names for each of your music files. Plus there’s Apple’s Love/Hate relationship with DRM. Then there’s codec limitations. You can listen to MP3, AAC,Protected AAC, Apple Lossless, Audible, WAV and AIFF, but what about open codecs like Ogg Vorbis?? To Apple, there’s no such thing.

So I went in search of something more and thought I found it with the Insignia Pilot, and it’s mostly true. Come along with me as we explore Best Buy’s Insignia Pilot 8GB MP3 Player…

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For a while now, Google Desktop has been available for Linux, and it works really well.  Well, now they have FINALLY released some code to allow you to run Google Gadgets on your Linux desktop.

It’s not a click and run install.  There’s no deb you can download and install yet; you must compile it.  Just try and follow the instructions as well as you can.  Hopefully soon Google will make some debs or rpms available for making the installation a snap.

I was able to get it working though.  The screenshot is from my laptop!

Thank you Google!

If you’re a fan of the Back to The Future movies, than you might want to float on over to Think Geek and pick up the Flux Capacitor, “the device that makes time travel possible”.  It’s now available on Think Geek for a limited time at the low low price of $250.

Image courtesy of ThinkGeek.com

So hop into the Delorean and I hope you get back in time!

Now that Mitchell has shared his views, I will share my views on the Eee.

The 8 GB drive on my Eee is fine for almost any OS.  Once you start using the machine, it becomes clear that the 2, 4 and 8GB drives available are simply not enough.  Plus Asus, in their infinite wisdom, has used the Union FS so that you can quickly restore the Eee back to the factory OS.  You can do this without needing to have a External Optical drive or a USB thumb drive.  It’s very convenient, but it takes up a tremendous amount of space on the 8 GB drive.  One of these days I need to follow the instructions on eeeuser.com to remove the partition.  This will make the full 8 GB of flash available.  I have already bought a external USB drive from Best Buy, which goes with me when I need the extra storage.  I have most of my music on that drive with a subset of music on an SD card.  I also have some video and a backup of all documents on the Eee stored on this drive.  Because it’s a portable drive, it’s completely powered by the Eee’s USB ports.  It takes up two of the three ports.  It runs just fine when it’s on battery but it does suck the battery down faster.  Soon I am going to be purchasing a 16 GB SDHC so I can leave the USB drive behind occasionally.

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After writing the review for the Coghlan’s LED Micro Lantern, Coghlan’s offered to send me 2 new LED headlights to review.  Today I am going to take a look at the 0.5 Watt LED Headlight from Coghlan’s.

The wattage of this headlight is serious. If you need to be able to see anywhere you point your head at night, then you should get this light.

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It was a tough choice, but it all came down to the fact that I was able to buy the machine yesterday from Micro Center - which is where I headed as soon as I had the cash.

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