New gadgetry at the Starport

[mdlbear]

As I mentioned upwhen, I went to Fry's yesterday: the main purchases were a 4GB microSD card, a cheap bluetooth headset, and a power supply for Nova to replace the functional but noisy one I had to put in a month or so ago.

The headset was the cheapest I could find; a little Plantronics job that charges via what looks like a micro-USB plug. Haven't had occasion to try it yet. The microSD was a 4GB Kingston that came with SD, mini-SD, and USB adapters; it'll be $10 after the rebate.

The PSU was the cheapest I could find with a 120mm fan, a 500W supply from Apevia, whoever they are. In spite of the fact that it's rated significantly higher than the 380W Antec it replaced, it appears to be more efficient: UPS load went from 26% to 22% of 480VA. So that's a win.

The office is noticably quieter now, though there's still some fan noise from the miniITX system I'm using as a router.

The main thing still pending hardware-wise is the AT&T fiber hookup; I really need to get email redirected off the old service in preparation for that.

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Electronic gadget therapy :-)

[zencuppa.livejournal.com]

My MP3 player died a couple of weeks ago. I used it to listen to a bunch of work-related and personal podcasts when I clean the house, do dishes, etc. and also to record interviews (It was an old IRiver with 245MB, yes, very old). And I used it during boring workouts on the cardio machines at the gym.

I really, really missed it.

So yesterday Jim mentioned that a decent MP3 player was for sale on www.woot.com. It was a refurbished Sandisk Sansa e260 4GB Media Player, that also plays video, records audio and has an FM tuner, for $24.00 and $5.00 shipping.

And now I am just waiting for it to arrive in about a week :-) Yay!!