Welcome to Corvette Power .COM

Submitted by tfiske on Wed, 09/10/2003 - 00:42.
Welcome to Corvette Power .COM this is my first attempt at providing a means for me to share information about things I am interested in. It is also a way for me to store some information at the time I am researching something and then later pull the information up.

You may remember my old static site, with links to pictures and other things. That site still exists, but the content is being phased out for this new 'story' format site. If you have old items bookmarked you will still be able to use them. But if you dont, you will need to follow the links on the new site. More stuff is available to family and friends just request a password.

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iPod 2.0 hung at Apple Logo

Submitted by tfiske on Tue, 07/29/2008 - 21:46.

Well I have had my iPod for just only 2 weeks, and have been plagued with hangs while installing applications, only to have to reset the device (holding Power/Home for 5 seconds) several times a day.  To the point, it just no longer would boot up, and sat just at the Apple Logo.  So digging around I found out how to restore your iPod Touch to the factory default... and for me, it restored to my already purchased 2.0 version of the iPod.

You could always try restoring your iPod to factory settings:

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Centual... the Blood Elf Paladin on Gul'Dan hits Level 70

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Submitted by tfiske on Fri, 05/30/2008 - 21:30.

Here Ye Here Ye...

Let it be known that on Thursday May 29th, at 11pm, Centual, a Blood Elf Paladin on Gul'dan, reached level 70.

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HD-DVD is Dead, Long Live Blu-Ray

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Submitted by tfiske on Tue, 02/19/2008 - 18:40.
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/japan_toshiba
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RSS Feeds and Alerts

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Submitted by tfiske on Wed, 02/06/2008 - 23:15.
I found an interesting article about turning your GMail into a nerve center, and it seems to have some relevance to my work email as well.
 
I've long been a fan of www.rssfwd.com as a way to have blogs and sites I don't visit often, show up in my inbox.  But it also looks like Yahoo!
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Macintosh Grey Screen of Death

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Submitted by tfiske on Wed, 09/05/2007 - 23:34.

Well at some point over the last week, I updated my mac, and now it won’t boot.

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Twitter

Submitted by tfiske on Mon, 07/16/2007 - 19:12.
I've started to Twitter (http://twitter.com) IM or Email me to get my address.
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Notify

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Submitted by tfiske on Mon, 07/16/2007 - 19:10.

I've installed the Notify module to see if its a good module to allow users to be notified of new content. There doesn't seem to be a 'default' setting that will apply to new user accounts. ;(

http://drupal.org/project/notify

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ComiCon 2007

Submitted by tfiske on Mon, 07/16/2007 - 16:57.
Just a quick update, as I said before last week they have sold out of
all 4 day passes for the Comic-Con.  That means you will have to
stand in line every day that you want to go.

They are also now making noise that the Saturday only tickets are
probably going to sell out in advance, so if you want to attend the
Comic-Con on Saturday check out:

http://www.comic-con.org/cci/cci_reg.shtml
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iPhone - the cheap review

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Submitted by tfiske on Tue, 07/03/2007 - 00:15.
OK I have to jump in and say that I got to spend 5 minutes with one over the weekend at a party.  I have to say I’m very impressed.  As with any ad you see, you know that the situation is very controlled, and things are loaded up to make the product work as they want it to appear.  So my friend hadn’t had much time to fill the device up before meeting up with us, but he had music, video, family photos, YouTube, contacts and the calendar all populated.  Here are my bullet points.

  1. The UI is as fast as the ad, except when rotating.  You rotate the phone a couple times and there is a delay… but it only seems like a delay because the rest of the phone UI is fast.  This delay is the NORMAL speed on my SmartPhone… its delays are measurable in 5-10+ second range.  iPhone was 3 seconds max.
  2. Navigating and zooming with finger gestures was fun, not sure how much I would like it over time.
  3. I spent some time watching the video on how the soft keyboard works, and feel frustrated it didn’t work as well as I hoped.  I wasn’t trying to type anything complicated and it still didn’t do a very good job predicting my key strokes.  But I only spent 5 minutes with it, I’m sure after a day, it would have trained me to type better.
  4. YouTube looks like … um.  YouTube was not very good on the iPhone, because of course of source material.  The display is beautiful, and when higher quality stuff is uploaded I’m sure it will look better.
  5. iTunes integration was apparently a breeze for my friend.  His purchased TV shows came over as well as music and album covers.  It all shows a well thought out strategy by Apple to prepare media for their devices.  The TV shows looked very good (in contrast to YouTube).
  6. There is a lack of applications, which is frustrating, but with 12k+ Apple employees with the phone, I am sure there will be web based applications a plenty soon enough.
  7. The phone is dense… compared with my MotoQ, it had a bigger screen, about the same size, but was a tad bit heavier.
That’s as far as I got before I started to drink and lost interest in the device.  My friend on the other hand was IM’ing people all night.  I couldn’t see what he was typing, just iChat like balloon windows on the screen.
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