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I’m Outta Here!

metra.iv — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 19:03:26 +0000

Yep! I’ve moved…I finally got a real web site! Check me out at revisionless.com! I’ll be co-admining with a buddy of mine. I really hope I see you there. It should be up and running at this second, but expect to see tons of changes going on throughout the month!

Luv ya, Metra4

Three Easy Steps to Breaking a Beautiful Cell Phone

metra.iv — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 07:13:00 +0000

Get your best friend mad enough to want to through you in the pool.
Wrestle friend while he tries to take away your phone.
Grip phone tightly through jeans pocket while you tell your friend to yank up on your arm as hard as he can.

Now check out the results below!

Sadly my Samsung Trace t519 was cracked in half. From the first day I got this I wondered what it would be like to break this phone in half. I thought that I would wait about 5 years and break it when it finally got old. Turns out it only took me about 5 months to do the job. The sucker still works though…if you ask it nicely. Super glue might fix it, a good whack with a hammer might, or maybe I’ll just slap a hinge on it and make it a short flip phone. Lesson of the day: it doesn’t take much to break an 8mm thick phone. At least the screen’s not cracked!

Watch Out iPhone, Google’s Gonna Open a Can o’ WUP-ASS!

metra.iv — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 16:15:49 +0000

Word on the street says that Google’s gonna release a new phone that’s got a ginormous touch screen. Apparently this phone is manufactured by Samsung(so we know it’s top quality)! Gmail and Gtalk will be integrated as well as GPS with Google Maps. There won’t be any integrated memory, so all the apps will load directly off the network. Give me a choice of an iPhone ora Google Switch, and I’ll pick the Switch any day of the week. Check out the pic…kinda reminiscent of a photoshop blur though!

Windows Vista Ultimate Already Out?

metra.iv — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 06:55:31 +0000

Vista is out already? I thought it was scheduled for Jan. 30, but apparently newegg was able to pull off a fantastic magic trick and get you the OEM version of Vista about a week earlier at $200. They’re having trouble keeping in stock.

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A USB Stove?

metra.iv — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 22:09:17 +0000

What will those crazy asian people think of next? Sure we’ve all wanted to make bacon next to the computer at some time or another, but this is just over the top. He harnesses the power of 30 USB’s to make his sucker hot enough. He even goes through a step by step DIY project, just in case you want to do the same. Check out the bonus video he’s got of him making bacon. Oh yeah the original site is in asian… so good luck reading it. I took the time to get google’s crappy translation of the site.

Sorry I haven’t been here…

metra.iv — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 21:57:42 +0000

Yeah…about that….I haven’t written for a while cause I’ve been caught up in all that Final Exam/Applying to college crap that happens at the last minute before you even know what’s happening. Well, now I’m on vacation, so I have no excuse for not writing. The weirdest thing happened today. I was just sitting here working at the office in my cubical, and this freaky asian lady with a horrible accent walks up from behind, taps my sholder, and flashes me a badge. She was asking for donations for ‘Defeat Hunger’ or somthing like that. The badge looke pretty legit, for the 3 seconds that I saw it for. But I was like, why are you asking me at work. People are trying to work here you know. She got shown out the door eventtually, but appartently she had been in the office 4 other times before, every time being shown out. She must have come back in through a back door….haxor

My Frustrated Attempts at Pumpkin Carving

metra.iv — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 22:17:12 +0000

This past Halloween I decided to try my hand at pumpkin carving. I wanted to do a Jack the Skeleton kind of face. The mouth was the hard part, but after about an hour this is what I got.

BSOD on a Macbook?

metra.iv — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 22:26:26 +0000

Okay, maybe the idea of finding a Blue Screen Of Death (BSOD) on a Mac is too farfetched…But, on an ever so closely related topic, Macbooks have been found to be suffering from Random Shutdown Syndrome (RSS) by the drove. Thousands have complained that their Macbooks crash for no reason. After years of advertising that Macs don’t crash like PC’s do, Apple has got to eat its words. Check it out at macbookrandomshutdown.com!

Wimax, Wireless for Everyone

metra.iv — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 22:19:01 +0000

A new wireless technology is in the works that could affect the way we use the internet as we know it. Wimax, or 802.16, will let one access the net from almost anywhere within a city. No more going to cafés just to use their wireless. One Wimax tower will potentially be able to cover a 3 to 12 mile radius. Although Wimax will not be compatible with wifi hardware, theoretically access points could be set up to convert the signal to traditional 802.11. This innovation may be coming to your fair city soon. Hopefully we won’t wait around on the wireless n standard, or nothing may ever happen. The next question is, who’s gonna pay for it?

Windows beats down Mac…again

metra.iv — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 21:47:06 +0000

For years the two major OS’s have been waiting for the day when they could fight it out in the ultimate smack down. Finally that is possible without Mac fanboys whining about how it’s unfair competition with different specs between computers. No more comparing apples to oranges; we can now compare apples to…well, apples. The test is to take an Intel equipped Apple computer and run Win XP natively through boot camp. Then benchmarks can be taken for each OS. Two apps that support Universal mode are the infamous Doom 3 and Bibble Pro 4.7. When Doom ran in Win XP, it got about 30 fps. Mac junkies will complain that Doom 3 was ported over to OS X not by ID, but by Aspyr. That’s beside the point. Well how about Bibble, which converted RAW images in 350 seconds in XP compared to 450 seconds in OS X. Probably the reply I’ve heard most when talking about crappy gaming on Macs, is that their meant for media editing. Let’s see if they are really better. With Photoshop CS2 installed on both operating systems, it takes only 413 seconds for XP to get through every filter applied to a picture. It took OS X 1123 seconds to do the same thing. I know this isn’t exactly a fair comparison because Adobe only has a PPC emulated version of Photoshop, not a Universal mode one. Regardless, maybe Apple needs to focus less on simplicity and more on quality, because ‘simple’ simply doesn’t cut it.