Best Buy has announced that they are rolling out an electronics recycling program to all of their US stores on February 15th. The program will allow consumers to bring in 2 devices per day, including a wide range of items, such as computers, VCRs, and some types of televisions.
Category: General
Gmail Tasks and the iPhone
The Official Gmail Blog has an entry up talking about their new Gmail Tasks web application.
The nice part is that not only can you use this application via the web on your computer, but on mobile devices such as the iPhone via the mobile browser. Google even went as far as posting a quick how-to video on getting the app to show up on your home page:
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The Local News Channel Discovers Twitter
It’s interesting watching the progression of new communication technology into the local Cleveland news channels. Video streams on their websites are already old-hat, so now they’ve started taking baby steps into the Twitter world.
I ran across Cleveland’s Fox 8 News Twitter account this morning, which highlights how the microblog sphere is slowly making its way into the mainstream.
At this rate, how long until grandma is posting about her bridge club?
Talking to Fox 8 about the DTV Transition
Best Buy BlueShirt Meghan Ries and I had a chance to talk to Fox 8’s Wayne Dawson about the upcoming DTV transition.
Another Motherboard to Add to the Pile
Old AMD ATX Motherboard vs New Atom Mini ITX Motherboard
The old AMD socket 939 motherboard that my Ubuntu Linux file server was running on finally gave up the ghost last week. Because replacements are harder to find for older processors, I decided to try a different router and went with an Intel mini ITX motherboard and Atom 330 processor.
What’s neat is that the heat sink with the fan isn’t cooling the processor, but the northbridge chipset. The actual Atom 330 processor is underneath the fanless heatsink next to it, which tells you just how little power it’s using in comparison.
Mini ITX Motherboard Inside Case — Lots of Room to Grow
It’s amazing how small this little guy is, especially when compared to the motherboard it’s going to replace. I’d almost go as far as calling it “Mac mini” small. It’s pretty comical to see how much space there is surrounding it in the Rocketfish tower case I had for the box.
So far performance has been good, both from a file serving perspective, as well as trying out general desktop performance under Ubuntu.