MexicanDragon

Some pix from 4ngiefest in Atlanta (a yearly BMW gathering, this year at Stone Mountain Park). **BRENT**

Contracts are stupid. I don't touch them. Just deal with outright prices.

TMO employee plan. 500$ device credit per year. Just rolled over (waiting on G2x). Post merger, as long as that deal sticks around, 129$ 16GB iPad 4G. **BRENT**

This makes me sad... rather sad. On the bright side, I should be able to get an almost-free iPad2 w/3G soon. http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/20/atandt-agrees-to-buy-t-mobile-from-deutsche-telekom/ **BRENT**

I must have a shitty bottle of Eagle Rare, as most of you guys like it a good bit. The bottle I have, it seems sub-par in the price range (32$ around here). **BRENT**

Guess you aren't worthy. That sux. Nate is more than worthy, they were probably just over quota. Sent from my CR-48 **BRENT**

From FB: Here is where we are on the 3A – from Jerry. 1. We are in the process of changing the spidf to coax. This is a bigger project than we had originally anticipated and is requiring a board revision. We are doing quick turn boards to test the spidf currently. 2. The MCU issue has been addressed and on Monday I will be in the lab with the amp at the ear simulator to verify the change. After the board approval, and once the connectors arrive to the manufacturer, it will take about a week until the units ship to us. We will keep you updated on the status as we have more information. Best regards, Everyone at JHA

Was someone talking about having an IDE on ChromeOS? Well, check this out (just came out about a week ago from Beta). https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nbdmccoknlfggadpfkmcpnamfnbkmkcp http://cloud9ide.com/ Click the first link in Chrome and it'll take you to the web app. @Nate - I'm still waiting on approval to crap in the Apple thread... it takes FOREVER to get through the process. **BRENT**

Memo to self: go crap in all the Apple threads today. **BRENT**

http://mashable.com/2011/03/11/google-cr48-shipping/ They've stopped shipping CR-48s, guys. Hope you all got one. **BRENT**

Did you kids see this? http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/05/atandt-to-allow-grandfathered-unlimited-ipad-data-plans-on-ipad-2/ AT&T allowing grandfathered unlimited iPad data plans on the iPad 2. I figure you all know that, but... **BRENT**

@Dan 501$ shipped, LMK. re: VZW/ATT 3G, I'm really wondering if it's just one SKU, and they're using a GOBI. I figure that's what they're HAVING to do, otherwise, it makes little sense. Now... What I'd LOVE to see is you pay Apple the 30$/mo, or whatever, and you get to use ATT or VZW, whichever you want/whichever is better at the time (auto-sensing, or selectable). That would be interesting. **BRENT**

UPDATE: I've gotten word that the producer of AXPONA, Steve Davis, has set aside a large exhibit area in one of the ballrooms at AXPONA for headphone enthusiasts to set up systems to display our hobby. This area will be free to us. Please contact Steve at 1-877-246-3892 or [email protected]. Is there anyone here interested? **BRENT**

Paging Mike, Dinny, Al, etc... http://dealmac.com/Panasonic-VIERA-50-1080-p-THX-3-D-Plasma-HDTV-for-887-free-shipping/437411.html I know Scott posted something similar to this a few weeks ago, and there was interest. Should be a great set even at hundreds more. **BRENT**

@Tyll Try DoubleTwist or WinAmp for media. Try to keep an eye out for the PlayOn app for Netflix and Hulu. I don't think it's out yet, but Engadget had something on it recently. Each platform has its strengths and weaknesses, and you have very good examples of each. **BRENT**

**BRENT** P.S. TSIF!

If you don't, Dinni, blame Dan. **BRENT**

Nate is correct re: email. No one has gotten a confirmation afaik. Mine was just sitting in my doorway, no sig required. I noticed mine was a little slow today. I started Alt+tabbing and realized it had opened 2 (initially) mirrored windows with about twenty tabs each. I had been using over a gig of the 2 gigs of ram, and that seemed a bit high. When I checked the memory manager in Chrome (Shift+Tab, then "Stats for Nerds"), I noticed multiple instances of webpages. Just a glitch I need to report; you know, to earn my keep. Wound up running into an old geek friend of a friend yesterday in Best Buy. He kinda geeked out a bit at it. Loved the soft-touch coating, construction, size, weight. He asked if they were going into production. One more thing... Youtube works pretty well, but Hulu is choppy. Supposedly Flash 10.2 adds hardware acceleration for Linux, which really smoothes out the video there. Some people have it, others don't. I'm in the latter camp so far, but believe I can get into the Dev mode and accelerate that process. I love this thing. **BRENT**

From Ultimate Ear's Twitter page: Celebrating #EMI_UEgrammyparty! 35%off @ultimateears Univ. Fit Earphones.Code UEGRAMMY11 -while supplies last,ends2/14 http://cot.ag/begmQZ 35% off UE Universal Fit... **BRENT**

Today I got about 230 e-mails from [email protected]. If you also got these e-mails, and do NOT have a CR-48, you need to be watching your door for the next couple of days. If you get these, it is for people who applied and were accepted into the Pilot Program. It is a group that every user was signed up for, but was private until someone found it. It was set up wrong, and all of these e-mails went out around 3am this morning. I hope some of you got them. **BRENT**

Hey guys, I've been contacted by the President of the Audio-Video Club of Atlanta seeking area "Can Heads" to get involved with the show, which is April 14-17, 2011. Fitz, tomb, Tom_Hankins, Purk... You guys get in touch with me if interested and I'll let you know who to talk to to find out more. Is there anyone else around who may be interested? Trav? http://www.axpona.com/ I hope to find out soon if maybe there would be some need/desire for some MOTs there as well. If anyone knows of a HF'er who's local who isn't on HC, let me know that as well, thanks. **BRENT**

I concur re:nice machine. Engadget posted something cool today: http://m.engadget.com/default/article.do?artUrl=http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/05/googles-cr-48-now-surfing-on-atandts-gsm-network-after-a-gentle/&category=classic&postPage=1

App-wise, I found the NYTimes app which caches locally the stories, and some of the pictures. It also allows a customizable view for about 5 different layout options. So far, this will be the best app for me during connection-free moments (of which I have too much of). @Whale - Google: chrome os IDE or IDE web app... if you find something, LMK. This should run HTML5 and Flash web-apps, but I know that there is an offline-mode built into HTML5... see if you can find something that will work for your purposes. **BRENT**

Hmmm... tough call. s///'s / That should do the trick. **BRENT**

There are off-line capable web-apps (think HTML 5) that you can download. I'm going to spend more time when I can find it playing around with it, but for now, I need internet. What do you want to do for work? Specs are N450 Atom/2GB RAM/16GB SSD. This would make a SIIIIIIICK hackintosh. Some people have OSX on it already. There is a "dev switch" one can cut on to allow for all sorts of fun. Now... when you guys apply, you're fighting with thousands of others. If you do a 140 character message, really work on it. Mine was pretty fantastic, and I got one. I'm just sayin'. **BRENT**