Tech It Like A Man!

Have any of you heard of this new DVD player that allows you to cut out the nudity, violence, naughty words, and anything else you find objectionable out of your movies? I just found out about it yesterday. For less than $80 you can buy the ClearPlay DVD Player online or at local tech retail stores. Apparently, this player integrates smooth cutting and pasting technology to give you a family friendly movie watching experience every time. There are filters for each movie, and they can be downloaded at the website. If you want to keep updating those filters, pay $7.95 a month and you get a USB stick where you can download new filters, plug it into the DVD player, and off you go. You can try it out for 30 days free (the subscription, that is).

I am actually looking into it for my family. We already have ProtecTV but that doesn’t take out anything but the profanity, and you have a constantly scrolling captions with XXX instead of the bad words. HMMM…not what it purported to be. This looks to be much better. Let me know if you try it out.

I just laid eyes on the best laptop/anything desk I have ever seen. That Kim Komando really knows what she is doing when she picks these gadgets. I am hoping that my sister is able to get one. It folds all kinds of ways, hold a good amount of weight, and is specially manufactured to be used for a laptop or for anything else your heart desires. I want one so bad I can see it in my house!!! It’s a bargain for under 150 dollars.

Tags: laptop+desk

I was reading up on the Pentax Optio S which is supposed to be the slimmest camera on the market with the best quality pictures. It has 3.2 megapixels and a large screen in order  to view your pictures. They give you 11mb of installed memory, which is more than a lot of cameras with its megapixels will give.

I am thinking “OMG If I leave that in my pocket, it’s toast!”. I mean, wow it’s so thin I would forget it was there. Even with all its portability, there are still people who say that the camera does not render high quality photos. This is a camera I want to see in action and hold for myself. I know what 4 ounces feels like in my hands so I can just imagine how easy it would be to lose this camera. What do you all think?

Tags: pentax+optio+s, digital+camera

I have found an online photo editor and fallen in love with it. It’s called Picnik. You can send pretty much any page or picture to their site and tweak it to your liking. There is a premium version, but I won’t be shelling out for it any time soon. I just LOVE their interface and how quickly I can edit flickr pics that I forgot to fix before I uploaded them.

Anyone else use this one? What other ones do you recommend?

I am about to try out one true media for video editing. I have yet to find a good free application that does what I want without me having to jump through a bunch of tutorials. My Windows Movie Maker has been broken since the last huge automatic Windows update and there is no way to fix it.

I like YouTube Remixer BUT it doesn’t actually save and publish the video when you are done. I used JumpCut by Yahoo and that one is nice. It actually works. Recently I tried Jahshaka, but that one won’t let me do anything the tutorial says to do AND it’s a pain in the rear to even get the video to come up so you can make futile attempts at rendering what you want.

I would love to hear about other free services you can use. I would prefer a program that I can download locally to work with videos.

Tags: free+video+editor, free+photo+editor

I got sick of trying to locate the hoards of notes that I place all over my desk proper, so I downloaded a free Sticky Note program . I did try another one before this. It was more elegant, but I really didn’t like how I couldn’t actually hide all my notes. I don’t want everyone seeing what it is that I have on my to do list all the time.

Glad to have found a free program. I go with free most of the time, as that is my favorite price.

Tags: free+sticky+notes