Dell 20″ Widescreen LCD FTW

March 22, 2007

Dell Widescreen MonitorIn case you don’t know what FTW means, it stands for “For The Win”. Get up with the slang, young-ins.

So, in an effort to be more productive, I picked up a Dell 20″ widescreen LCD monitor (E207WFP) and a Happauge WinTV-HVR-1600 HDTV tuner card. I opted for the Dell E-series instead of the 2007WFP because I have no need for the crazy adjustments it has, and the actual monitor is exactly the same. Didn’t feel like spending that extra $100.

You might be saying to yourself, how the bloody hell is an HDTV tuner card going to make this guy more productive? We’ll I’ll tell you. I hate silence; I need something going on. Radio hasn’t been cutting it for me, and I can only listen to the Opie and Anthony replay on XM so many times a day, so I’ve been working at the coffee table in the living room watching my HDTV. This has led to less coding, more gaming on my part, which is putting me behind schedule on a couple projects.

So I picked up a nice widescreen monitor and tv tuner card so I can have something to watch in my office while I do work. The monitor is more for a dual monitor setup on my laptop (which is a 15″ widescreen) than the tv part. I have a 19″ Dell LCD that my desktop runs on.

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“Wee for a Wii” Contest Returns [Update]

March 13, 2007

Opie and AnthonyRemember that contest a few months back where a woman died for a Wii? Well, it’s back. This time, the brilliant minds of Opie and Anthony (of XM Radio fame) have decided to run the contest. No concrete details yet, they’re just teasing it all week. I’m sure they’ll put a good spin on it, as they usually do. If you haven’t heard these guys, they’re absolutely hilarious. And since the odds of water intoxication, which the Sacramento woman died from, is extremely rare, I’m sure the bbboys will push it to the limit.

Stay tuned as more details emerge…

[Update] So the lawyers at FreeFM got their claws in on this one and shut it down. O&A will be fired if they try to do this, so they’ve backed down some. Sucks, because this would have been a huge, funny contest

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How to Install Windows Vista

February 2, 2007

Have you been having issues with installing Windows Vista? A lot of people have, with incompatible hardware, software, and the like. Well, Anthony Cumia, of Opie and Anthony fame (listen daily on XM 202), decided to make video tutorial of how to properly install Vista. He had a hard time on his main computer, so decided to install it on a second machine with terrific results. Check the video…

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