This Weekend in Geekdom

[bjarvis]

We went to a local computer flea market in Annapolis, MD, Saturday morning with the intent of obtaining some toys and expanding the economy. Both were achieved.

I was looking for a copy of Adobe Acrobat since I'll shortly lose access to my office version. I didn't find one, but I did find PDF Converter 4 Professional for $60... that's close enough.

I also got a new CD case for all of the data and software installation CDs sitting around our home computer room. I also now have a handheld thumb roller mouse which I hope to use for faster & more subtle screen scrolling when I'm reading square dance choreo from a computer screen.

kent4str needed a replacement hard drive for his XP workstation and a backup drive for his MacBook: his XP box now has a 320 GB drive and I'm currently working on installing it in the workstation. His new 500 GB USB-based external backup drive has already made a full backup of his MacBook.

cuyahogarvr's needs are simpler than ours: we got a replacement card reader for his digital camera's memory card and a CD holder for his car's sun visor.

Alas, I was unable to find some items I wanted: a PCMCIA audio card for my laptop (my audio jack has been misbehaving lately), a 100 GBps switch for our home network and a hip holster for kent4str's cell phone. We'll have to continue shopping for those.

Comments

[paigemom.livejournal.com]

Ooo I need one of those CD visor thingys...

[abqdan.livejournal.com]

Do you just need to save files as PDF? There are a number of free applications to do that, including OpenOffice.

[rlegters.livejournal.com]

A while back I fried my headphone jack (puff of smoke and everything!) and I've ended up using the Turtle Beach USB sound card. It's not perfect (it doesn't always work when the PC has been hibernating for example), but it's only $30.

[low-fat-muffin.livejournal.com]

we hit best buy on Saturday and everything was on obscene sales - i almost got Mr. IDon'tNeedACellphone to buy one of the new Blackberry Storms. but - no cigar. We got my antivirus updated (i am virus and malware/spyware paranoid) and new cartridges for the kateydog doggybag dispenser next door at Petco. :)

[apparentparadox]

a hip holster

Why bother? It will take more than that to make him hip.