So about a year ago I gave a new national internet provider a try, one called Clear Wireless. I figured they had to be good if they provide the 4G support that Sprint who happens to be my cell phone carrier is using.

Unfortunately once they “officially” launched in Houston service dropped like a stone to my apartment who after a year is still barely in their service range. However if I take my laptop to the nearest Starbucks which is only a mile away by car (so even less as the crow flies) I get a really good speed, using their mobile internet device.

So starting this Tuesday I will be trying the cable provider that seems to do at least quite a bit of the apartments here in Houston, its a company called Wavevision. Hopefully it will be much better, I don’t think it could be any worse. As of this writing my speed is 1.62 Mbps down and .57 Mbps up according to Speedtest.net.

Of course your probably wondering why I didn’t ask about these slow speeds? Well I did repeatably, in fact that is pretty much all I ever called them about during the last year, and it always boiled down to “you’re not really in our service area.” And after a year, there is still no plans on their site at least to put up another antenna that would serve me better.

So this past Friday I bought a PlayStation 3 160 GB and a used copy of Heavy Rain.

My first thoughts of Heavy Rain is that its very much like Interactive Fiction, which is traditionally a text based game such as Zork.  This has been fully upgraded and with the exception of having to use your fingers to play Twister around the controller its a very fun game.

About to start playing it again, this time however i hope for a much better ending. My first time through if I didn’t the worst possible finish it was mighty close.

So recently I got an HTC Evo to replace my HTC Hero.
I really wish that I could say there was no learning curve, however that is not the case. Things such as streaming off the 3g network like I did on my Hero doesn’t work as well with many apps.
More later

As you may know I recently got a Zoom H1 Hand Held Recorder. I don’t have a full indepth review of it yet, but I have prepared a few things for those who are interested.

First was the YouTube Video I did here:

First View of Zoom’s H1.

And then while walking to work, I decided to give the thing a test in recording.  Here is the unedited Wave form according to Audacity:

I must admit I was pleasantly surprised as to how good of a job it did with out having to touch any of the controls but record, and stop. Attached to this post is also the MP3 version of the WAV file I made. Nothing really interesting is discussed (or I don’t think so) but it was a test mainly.

So the Kindle has had a huge price drop its now $10.00 (if bought new) compared to the Barnes & Noble Nook. This brings the Kindle’s price down to $189.00 USD, which is still more than the price point many people had hoped for, but much better than it was. For a while I had debated, if saving up for the iPad by Apple would be worth it, as then you would get the best of all 3 products, thanks to the Kindle App, the Nook app and Apple’s own book app. However with the new price for the Kindle and the Nook you could buy both for less than what you would buy the cheapest iPad for. Interestingly enough the DX is $300 more than the normal version. Sorry Amazon if I was going to pay $489 for an eBook reader, I would buy the iPad for $10 more.

However for now, I have to admit while I’ve heard plenty of reports that the Kindle is slow compared to the Kindle App on the iPad, this is what I’m thinking of getting. Perhaps I’ll have it in time for my trip to DragonCon.

So yesterday I decided to purchase a Fujifilm FinePix S2000HD 10MP Digital Camera with 15x Optical Dual Image Stabilized Zoom. This will be my first in what will hopefully be an on going set of reviews. I do have a link here to where you can buy it Amazon, however because a local store was offering a package deal on this camera with some other stuff, I did decide to buy it locally.

I’d actually been looking at this camera for a while, and decided it wasn’t going to get any better than it is currently priced (at least not till it becomes outdated by something newer).

First off, this is my first ever “prosumer” camera, its a bridge between the camera’s that look like an old 110 film camera and the DSLR cameras. So while this does have a lot of point and shoot functionality, getting used to where every thing is on the menu does take a little getting used to.

I would recommend that anyone who has bought this camera certainly at least glance at the 148 page PDF that is included on one of the CD-ROMs, it goes into a lot more depth than the dead tree manual that it comes with.

Of course, you want to see examples of what the camera can do right?

This is the camera using natural lighting.

This is a sample of the camera in Text Mode.

As I get more familiar with the camera, I’ll post better pictures.