Video: Automated online bargain hunting
Online shopping has opened up for many of us a shopping world that was totally alien before it. Online retailers are competing with every other store you can think of which makes the competition fierce. They also sell large quantities…
Video: Making an ethernet cable
This is the first video in a short series about using your geek-sense to save a little cash. The first installment: making your own ethernet cable. You may be wondering how buying a cabling kit that costs $71.50 is going…
Video: Easy Digital Music Recording
[podcast format="video"]http://raddevon.com/video/003-EasyDigitalMusicRecording.flv[/podcast] Colin Campbell is my brother, and, more importantly for the purposes of this video, he is a singer/songwriter who records music digitally and distributes it online. He uses a very cheap and simple method. If you want studio-quality…
Console-quality iPhone games
Apple’s launch of the app store last year was an amazing success with games making up a large part of the catalog. However, with rumors of iPhone Flash getting hot and heavy, the need for 100 native Sudoku apps, 20…
Gaming’s underground: an indie games primer
Like most commercial artforms, video games have a vibrant community that exists outside the commercial realm. People are making games that are less influenced by the marketability of the graphics, the concept, and the gameplay conventions—and in many cases they…
Caps return us to the days of limited Internet access
ISPs everywhere are making it known that they do not intend for Internet access to be unlimited. It was a popular marketing term in the days of time-limited Internet access. Everyone has seen the old AOL disks and CDs that…
Cream of the cloud: The top premium web services
There has been much talk in the past year about cloud computing. Some like it; some don’t. Say what you will, but there are some services that can only be provided through the cloud. As a result, the concept has…
Video: Building an arcade cabinet
[podcast format="video"]http://raddevon.com/video/002-BuildAnArcadeCabinet.flv[/podcast] It’s nice to have friends in high places. Failing that, it’s nice to have friends who can build you a sweet arcade cabinet! Brandon Haynes is a Rubik’s Cube virtuoso. He’s also pretty good with power tools. In…
iTunes is now DRM-free. So what?
Apple has kindly decided to allow users to pay 30 cents per track to remove the crippling DRM which would otherwise render users’ songs useless should the iTunes DRM servers vanish (as Wal-mart’s did last year). I understand that this…
Recession could bring about another “dark age” for gamers
Electronic Arts was on fire last year with a number of unique and stellar titles. This was a pretty pleasant surprise for most gamers since recently EA has been known for churning out sequels, roster updates for sports titles, and…