A four day holiday ... what can I do? I know - I'll make a homepage skin for my shiny (well, actually kind of dull-black) Motorola Q. I just got the new Q in black. Its really nice - I like it a lot better than the original Q, though in this case the differences really are only skin deep. The black Q comes in this rubbery casing that is ...

There's a grass roots movement to finally Deep Six Blu-Ray and encourage studios to see the light and move over the HD-DVD. You can find the petition here: http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/HD_DVD_Studio_Support There are also some interesting stats here: http://www.thedvdwars.com/index.cfm The stats are built from Amazon.com sales ...

My HD-DVD add-on drive finally arrived today for the Xbox 360. Amazon.com had delayed it twice, so it is an understating it to say I was looking forward to getting it.Sadly all was not well. The HD-DVD drive's box was just sat inside a regular Amazon.com box with no additional padding. Worse than that, though - when I took the drive out of its ...

Say what you like about Microsoft software, but Xbox Live on the 360 works great! The user interface is slick, fast and intuitive and it doesn't crash - or not often at least. Considering how complicated it is under the covers, it does a great job.Now Microsoft is adding another nail in the PS3 coffin, announcing Xbox Live Video - HD movies ...

I made a trip to Best Buy this evening to pick up my first HD-DVD movies before the upcoming Xbox 360 HD-DVD drive becomes available, and "beat the rush".While "one swallow doesn't make a summer", there were 2 sections of HD-DVD titles versus only 1 section for Blu-Ray. Perhaps my wish is coming true, and Sony is already ...

The lease is up on my Infiniti in March, and while I love the M45 to death for its electronics, performance and comfort, 18mpg really sucks with gas being where it is. Given that March is only 6 months away, its time to start looking for my next ride. Right now the front runner is the 2008 Scion xB, which gets a redesign away from the current ...

I know (from the comments on MacRumors) that I'm not the only one disappointed by the new "5.5G" iPods. I think the expection was now fairly widespread that we would see the full-sized screen iPod this time around, given that its been a year since the last one was announced. The full screen iPod is the one I first described over a ...