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 Saturday, January 13, 2007

Stuff I liked at Macworld 2007

case-mate iPod Shuffle Case. Just cute. Trina got 2 for free and she gave me one! I mean gave Sarah one :-). Looks like they don't even have them for sale yet.

Crumpler 5 Million Dollar Home Photo Bag, Color: Black / Gun Metal / Lite GreyCrumpler 5 Million Dollar Home - sweet case for your DSLR and 2 lenses. I've been looking for a messenger style bag to carry my D70 in for a long time and this looks purfect. To bad Timbuk2 doesn't make one and to bad they didn't seem to be at Macworld. Just ordered the Crumpler in black.

IntelliScanner mini. Kinda like the idea of scanning in all the wine I own to catalog it all and remember what I've purchased and consumed. the OCD in me wants to scan all the contents of my fridge and pantry. Torres, you listening?

harman/kardon drive + play 2. This looks like the ultimate car addon for those of us with cars that don't have built in iPod kits or bluetooth. Basically you wire this puppy in and then you can control and listen to your Zune/iPod while it it stashed away in a glove compartment. You can also take advantage of your cell phone's bluetooth features somehow. Out later this year.

Arctic Butterfly - a super duper brush to get the dust off the CCD on your DSLR. If you own a DSLR you will get dust on your CCD. Getting it off often involves some tricky acrobatics with a duster or a CCD swipe that can potentially damage your CCD. There is also the option to send it to the manufacturer but that's a pain. This device avoids all that and appears to be safe on your CCD.

Shure's new line of headphones. Lots of usability improvements. The new line includes the SE210, SE310, SE420 and SE530/SE540PTH. The last one are basically the headphones I own (E500PTH) that come with new ear foam inserts that they gave me some of in the booth. The 500 series are just incredible. I've never heard base on headphones like this. It sounds like you are in a room with really great speakers. They are absurdly expensive for earphones though and I would not have purchased them had I not gotten them for 50% off.

Belkin CushTop. Pillow for your hot laptop.

 

Saturday, January 13, 2007 1:48:42 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
Yeah, I'm listening ;)
Tuesday, January 16, 2007 5:20:44 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
Unfortunately, everything I've read about the actual wine software that goes with the IntelliScanner products is that it's junk. This is actually a market space that is amazingly devoid of decent programs (where I define the market space as the wine collector/consumer with greater than just a single dozen or less bottles of wine). The reigning champion of the market appears to be CellarTracker.com. A web based solution that is visually appalling. It, however, does boast the best selection of pre-inputted wines and integrates with some reviewers like Wine Spectator and others.

I really am surprised, given how many people are out there that are nerds on wine (and how they love to talk about all the various metadata about that wine) that there aren't better products. I'd expect a Delicious Library for wine, but there isn't one out there.
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