I finally broke down and ordered the Bose Acoustic Noise Cancelling headphones and have been trying them out for the past week. I’m really disappointed. And at $299 I’m pretty angry too. Of course, they are not returnable. They sound great when you play music through them, and they do an amazing job of cancelling [...]
It seems to me that every few months I have a huge stack of tech magazines ready to come crashing down: IEEE Software, IEEE Computer, InfoWorld, JDJ, DDJ, and some others that I didn’t ask for but keep showing up. As I look at them I keep thinking I can’t toss them since I might [...]
Just a quick followup to say that the replacement unit Jabra sent works much better than the BT100, although I find I need to charge the unit up after a day of being on even if I didn’t use it much. You can tell because the audio tones it generates (such as for a ring) [...]
A friend recently asked me what laptop he should get. I have a few of them gathering dust (ThinkPad X20, ThinkPad R32) but I told him he should get himself a ThinkPad with a new warranty on it because that’s important (and IBM has good service generally). I wouldn’t really look at anything other than [...]