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Jan 12 2005

UPDATE– More announcements from Griffin Technology– BlueTrip, FireWave and more

As a continuation of our earlier story, Griffin Technology today announced the release of yet another gadget.

  • BlueTrip, wireless bluetooth audio for iPod. BlueTrip can transmit up to 30 feet away from your stereo, without the traditional barriers of line of sight, walls, ceilings or windows that limit other remotes. US$149.99

  • FireWave, has Dolby Digital processors to bring Surround Sound to Macs for gaming, DVDs and iTunes. US$99.99
  • RocketFM, a USB based FM transmitter for the Mac that uses any available FM frequency to transmit audio through your home, car or office stereo system. Applications such as iTunes, GarageBand, video soundtracks and even streaming internet radio can be conveniently broadcast.
  • TuneJuice, an iPod backup battery that provides up to 8 hours of additional power and works with any dockable iPod or iPod mini.
  • Dock800, a Firewire 800 cable for dockable iPods. Free up your Firewire 400 port by making the Firewire 800 the iPod port.

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Dec 19 2004

Hriders.com gives unlimited free 1 Terabyte email accounts

We have been asked why we would do such a thing. The answer is simple, to help people store large amounts of information in a safe and secure environment. If you have a free membership with Hriders.com, then you will receive a free 1 Terabyte [1024 Gigabytes] 500 Megabyte attachment email account. You will be able to store over 40 million emails, videos, games, mp3s, or pictures.
We decided that Hriders.com should do something more than just provide a place to receive large quantities of emails. What we have done is provide our members with a place to store their family pictures or home videos as well as store pictures of their home or office furnishings, in case something might be lost to an unexpected event.

Homes burn, earthquakes happen, floods and un-natural events take place all the time, and all to often we hear people say, well at least I survived but I lost everything, my family pictures are gone, I did not plan on this ever happening to me so I did not take videos or pictures of my belongs for the insurance company to prove to them that I had a music collection that I have had for over 20 years, or a $10,000 home theater system or 5 computers.

We decided that yes, a Terabyte of space may sound rather extreme to some, others will not think so.

Our servers are housed in an environmentally safe solar powered site run by our friends at aiso.net

They run system checks 24 hours a day, spam checks and virus applications they ensure that our systems are always up and running to ensure our members have the best experience possible while at Hriders.com
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Dec 4 2004

Rich Brooks replies to the Mac user cultists

Rich Brooks, the poor little moron who doesn’t know what he’s talking about, has written a follow up to “The Mac attack: No sympathy here for teachers polishing Apples” in which he addresses the deluge of emails he has received since posting his original article.
The new article, “Revenge of the Mac user cultists (and why they missed the point)” is ironically titled since, in spite of the constructive and informative feedback he received, he still doesn’t get it. He’d rather dismiss the facts as being the cultic mantra of a group blindly faithful to Steve Jobs than consider these points as relevant.

At one point he concedes, “Macs are not as susceptible to viruses and spyware attacks. This appears to be true.” and then he ignores that fact when he states, “And it’s more cost-effective for schools to maintain one type of computer platform.” I’d agree if he was referring to Macs but he’s not. How can it be more cost effective to maintain a Windows-based system, the system most susceptible to viruses and spyware attacks, than the Mac OS, the system that is nearly immune to them?

He says, “If more than 95 percent of the students with home computers operate on a PC platform, it makes sense for the school district to use the same platform.” Sure, if the lessons learned on Macs were incompatible with the PC world, yes, that would make sense. But file compatibility and software usability is practically universal. Word processing, the internet and most other common computer functions run much the same on either platform and files from a PC version of an application will also be compatible with the Mac version of that same application.

So why not establish a low maintenance system that affords more uptime and hours available for instruction instead of a system that will become infected on a regular basis by the 95 percent of students who bring their homework in on floppy disks carrying the viruses from their Windows PCs?

To Rich Brooks I say, ‘Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. You are a Windows Fool.
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