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When is small TOO small?

Over the years the media card formats have shrunk. I can remember when compact flash and smart media were once big (I had a FujiFilm cam that used smart media) and the new formats were expensive/non existent.

With devices shrinking in size there was a need for smaller cards…. but this brings up the question “When is small too small?

When i went to my Palm Treo 700p I had found that my old 512mb sd card was dying… it was cheaper for me to get 2gb MicroSD cards with their included adapters than to get the older SD format. The new cards i got inspired me to to do this photo set that places MicroSD next to many common objects.

Here are the pics :)

iPod USB Connector

When is small TOO small? - iPod USB Connector

On Finger

When is small TOO small? - On Finger

Apple Remote

When is small TOO small? - Apple Remote

AA Battery

When is small TOO small? - AA Battery

iPod Dock connector

When is small TOO small? - iPod Dock connector

Dime

When is small TOO small? - Dime

1gb flash drive

When is small TOO small? - 1gb flash drive

Thumb screw

When is small TOO small? - Thumb screw

Card Case

When is small TOO small? - Card Case

Card Reader

When is small TOO small? - Card Reader

Card range

When is small TOO small? - Card range

Headphone mic adapter for Treo

When is small TOO small? - Headphone mic adapter for Treo

RSS Weekly Digest – #4

Here are my news picks for the week…

Sorry for them being late but i had a busy start of week.

Sunday, April 26th, 2009

The story of the PlayStation
SlingPlayer for iPhone getting closer to release?
Apple may hear Verizon now
Google makes their own Digg, lets users pop stories
Will Oracle kill MySQL? Who cares?
Skype Cuts Prices On SkypeOut Service
Qualcomm, Broadcom reach $891 million settlement
Essential Tips to Get the Best from iTunes
Virus begins to attack PCs
First Android Netbook will cost $250?
Flip Video Ultra HD makes its unofficial debut, gets unboxed
Apple loses patent suit, will have to pay $19M
NVIDIA’s GT300 specs outed — is this the cGPU we’ve been waiting for?
FBI accuses Twitter user of massacre threats
Windows 7 – Gold – As Early as July?
Download Wall-E for just $62,000 Now!
Billionth iPhone App is a Freebie!
Review – Twitter Desktop Clients for Mac, Dual Review
Chalk Drawing Depicts Epic Browser War (With A Touch of Conan) [Browser War]

Saturday, April 25th, 2009yep

Steve Jobs On The Value Of Stock Options
German book publishers want Rapidshare blocked
Former AOL Exec Mike Jones To Become No. 2 At MySpace
Video: Recording analog audio to a floppy disk
New Snow Leopard beta build includes screen recording capabilities, a certain je ne sais quoi
Windows 7 reveals XP mode AKA the IT guy’s wet dream
21 Eye Catchy Collection Of Free Textures
Samsung plays catch-up with 32GB P3
Why AT&T Wants To Keep the iPhone Away From Verizon
Windows 7 Release Candidate 1′s Best Surprise New Features
Conficker virus begins to attack computers
Somniloquy external networking card lets PCS “sleep talk” essential connectivity functions
Microsoft training video reveals older prototype of Windows 7 “superbar”
Bugs Aside – Ubuntu 9.04 Is Pretty Slick

Friday, April 24th, 2009

It’s official: Windows 7 Release candidate available for download May 5th
No, This Dancing Building’s Bricks Are Not Falling Like Tetris [Art]
Hollywood attacks RealDVD in court
Model 2+ production seen as “unlikely,” says OQO exec
Coming Soon: Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC
Analysis: App Store now $1 million a day business, cloud mobile apps the next big thing
Windows 7 RC build 7100 leaked
Windows 7 Release Candidate Update
Microsoft axes Live Search Product Upload
Apple Loses Patent Lawsuit from Opti Inc on “Predictive Snooping”
Internet Explorer 8 Security
Irish reject e-voting, go back to paper
Microsoft Surface First-Run Experience
Geocities to close after 15 years of aesthetic “awesomeness”
Android-Based G1 Phone Sells One Million Units
News: Bump is billionth app downloaded, 13-year-old wins prizes

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

Apple Questioned Again About a Mac Netbook
Jaunty Jackalope hops onto scene with GNOME 2.26, new features
Consuming the Contents of Windows 7 Libraries
iPhone OS devices continue to dominate mobile traffic

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

iSuppli: Kindle 2 costs twice as much to buy as it does to make
Apple iPhone & iPod Touch sales pass 37 million
Steve Riley on Windows 7 Security
Apple with “No Plans” to Change AT&T iPhone Exclusivity and Other Notes
Pixelpipe adds drag-and-drop uploading to Firefox
Make your own solid state drive with a CF card
Second Life gives users ability to filter Mature, X-rated content
Apple WWDC rumors: MacBook speed bumps, pro application upgrades (but where’s the netbook?)
Congress wants new probe into P2P file-sharing snafus
The EagleTec USB Nano flash drive: it doesn’t get much smaller
Panasonic makes school runs more cinematic with its in-dash Blu-ray player
OLPC waves goodbye to AMD for new XO laptop, adopts VIA chip
Face recognition comes to Flickr
MacBooks, MacBook Pros, and Pro Apps to See Updates at WWDC?

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

iTunes Price Hikes Hurt Some Track Rankings
Amazon Video on Demand goes high definition
Apple preparing to release new Snow Leopard beta build
From Mingebag To Gmod Activist
DiggBar Changes Live Today
Why Time Capsule Is Doomed to Suck
Rumor smash: Windows 7 will keep 6.1 versioning
Sony Pictures is on YouTube, Hulu, but not Joost anymore
Nvidia gives developers OpenCL driver and SDK support
Bluetooth “high speed” technology becomes official with 3.0 spec
GamePark Wiz app store coming this summer
VMware’s Cloud OS Is Compelling, But Closed
Google joins effort for 3D Web standard with new plugin, API
Windows 7 Starter Edition Only Runs 3 Applications at Once
End to End Trust and Windows 7
The iPhone app that ran the Boston Marathon
Xbox 360 ‘Game Of The Year’ bundle ships in May
A Peek Inside Windows 8: Coming in 2011 [Windows 8]
LEGO Rock Band officially announced, coming just in time for the holidays
Study: Illegal music downloaders buy 10 times as much legal music as non-illegal downloaders
Google links students, projects in Summer of Code
Windows 7 could change our perception of PCs
More Details of iPhone OS 3.0 ‘Voice Control’ Emerge
Gmail can now suggest recipients for you
AT&T plans to double its 3G network capacity
Google serves up brace of slightly skewed search tools
SlingPlayer Mobile for iPhone. What’s the deal?
Video: Sharp’s Mebius LCD trackpad
Fujitsu’s 10.1-inch LOOX M netbook looks good, positively average
OLED displays coming to half of all mobile phones in the next five years

Monday, April 20th, 2009

PSP firmware updated to v5.50
The ESA are fans of Pirate Bay decision
Jonathan DiCarlo: Do We Still Need Bookmarks?
Apple Launches Movie Downloads in German iTunes Store
Windows 7 security enhancements
Blu-ray in every home? Backers aim for $99 players
Windows 7 Starter Won’t Open Any Doors for Android or Linux
ISP Download Caps Not Dead, But Ought to Be
Windows 7 Security: Helping Enable the Mobile Workforce
Google tweaks Chrome with new tabs management features
Windows 7: A New Approach to Securing Today’s Enterprise
Skype coming to the DSi?
$400 Xbox 360 Elite Games of the Year bundle with Halo 3 and Fable 2 gets official
Tweetie for Mac now available
MSI intros the touchscreen Wind Top all-in-one US mod
Adobe brings Flash to the TV screen
Atempo Digital Archive Adds Full Mac OS X Support
The Pirate Bay loads cannon with official appeal
Play Garry’s Mod before you die!
Windows 7 Starter Edition headed for a netbook near you
Engadget’s take on the new mophie Juice Pack Air
Toshiba 10-inch Dynabook UX’s got talent
More Apple Netbook Rumors Pinpoint Foxconn as Manufacturer
Next Generation iPhone to Support HD Video and Apple TV-Like Behavior?
Oracle reels in Sun Microsystems with $7.4bn buy

RSS Digest Combo – #66,#67,#68

Another late set of posts..

Here are the links for:

Saturday, March 7th 2009

New StreamDesk Update
Solving the TinyUrl centralization problem
Schmidt: Google ‘unlikely’ to buy Twitter soon
What the Heck Is Twitter?It’s not a Google killer, and it’s not a Facebook killer.
Why TV Lost
Cydia Opens iPhone App Store for the Jailbroken Community [Jailbreak!]
Has ‘cloud-computing’ lost its VC luster?
Smartstrip surge protector and money saver
All Circuit City stores set to close tomorrow
Did Apple OK price cut on latest MacBook Air?
New Snow Leopard test build has more Cocoa goodness
New CableCARD diagnostic tool for Windows Media Center makes installation slightly less frustrating
Onkyo rolls out Sotec-branded E702A9 media PC
OWC Releases 4GB RAM Upgrades for New Mac Mini

Friday, March 6th 2009

Palm’s Sugar Daddy Serves Up Another Load of iPhone Trash Talk [Palm Vs Apple]
ASUS shows off Wireless LCD prototype, “Green” monitors
Digg CEO Jay Adelson on FoxBusiness.com
Apple’s Time Capsule, Airport Extreme Update Adds Drive Sharing For Older Units [Apple]
Apple denies second round of layoff rumors
The 100 oldest registered .com domains
Hallelujah: Microsoft confirms IE8, WMP, others can be removed from Windows 7
Unlike PCs, Apple’s Mac prices not collapsing yet
White Chocolate Keyboard Most Definitely Melts In Your Hands [Art]
Cydia developer planning independent iPhone App Store, others planning jailbreak service, adult app store
Circuit City RIP, 03-08-09
Twitter power-users, monitor calibration, and Geneva Conventions
Hulu content returns to Boxee in a different form
How To Install a Second Hard Drive in the New Mac Mini [Mods]
Safari 4 Buddy 1.0 changes hidden prefs | Utilities | Macworld
‘Toys “R” Us’ Buys Toys.com Domain Name For $5.1M

Thursday, March 5th 2009

Sapphire launching Radeon HD 4870 with 2GB of memory
firefox 3 in second place
Watchmen Steve Jobs Alter Ego’s Old School Macintosh SE/30 [Apple]
OCZ jumps into the netbook game with the Neutrino
9 Browsers Compared For Speed and Features
NVIDIA’s GeForce 9600M causing issues in 17-inch MacBook Pro?
Lars Ulrich ‘pirated’ his own CD
Core i7 laptop weighs 12 pounds, has a one-hour battery
Clearwire stays the course despite losses
HDMI-equipped ASUS Eee Box 206 eyes-on
Georgetown Finally Greenlights Apple Store
Ustream Launches Mobile Video Broadcasting Apps
New Samsung Q1 UMPC, the Q1EX
FireWire target disk mode to the rescue
Windows 7 test build ‘turns off’ Internet Explorer 8
Google Chrome now bundled with Real Player
Safari 4 Buddy 1.0 changes hidden prefs
GameTap to receive major update, lose Mac support
Mac Mini 2009 Review [Review]
Vista SP2 release candidate gets public airing
MSI WindBOX dismounts LCD, acts all proper at CeBIT
Apple Gets Nehalem Early, h264 and VMWare Performance Boosts
YouTube, Universal near new video deal
Joost Continues Fight For Relevancy, Teams Up With Social Network Netlog
Apple developers mark a year of iPhone apps
First look: Qt 4.5 rocks for rapid cross-platform development
ASUS: Our Eee PC 1000He is better than Acer’s Aspire One D150, fashion elegant too
HDTV Pinball Machine is Almost as Good as the Real Thing [Pinball]
7 Cool Research Projects From Yahoo

RSS Digest – #33

Here are the links for: Friday, January 30th 2009…

What Will Replace The Internet?
Win 7 Tip: Miss Vista’s Taskbar Or Quick Launch? Here’s How You Get It Back [Windows 7]
NEC cutting 20k employees, 20,000
PS3 doing fine, no price drop in sight, PSP is a different story, says European SCEE boss
Microsoft Confirms No More Windows 7 Betas [Windows 7]
Why Google Needs the GDrive to Fight Microsoft
Google’s GDrive revealed in code?
Limited iMac availability could mean new iMacs soon
EFF Sues for Access to Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement Documents
T-Mobile Exec: More “G series” phones on the way
Windows Vista SP2 RC may be in the hands of testers as we speak
10 cheap and easy upgrades for your old PC
Dell headed into the mobile phone business?
15+ Incredibly Useful Mac Apps For Freelance Web Designers
Why CableCard isn’t on the Mac
Google Software Update for Mac refuses to uninstall
Dissecting Apple’s “Multitouch” Patent: Can It Stop Palm? [Patent Wars]
If Windows 7 Fails, Citrix (Not Linux) Wins
Gridplane releases hazy NXE mockup that never was
Rowmote Brings Apple’s Front Row Remote to the iPhone (Unofficially) [IPhone Apps]
Start your day violently with the Smash Clock
Google Chrome Accesses Hotmail by Pretending It’s Safari
Apple makes NVIDIA Graphics Update mysteriously disappear
Hack turns off Windows UAC forever and ever
Pixel Art Book Jackets Hide Your Shameful Reading Habit [Decorating]
Firefox 3.1 release date hampered by cheeky monkey
DRM killed Gears of War for PC
Roombas Are Fun For Cats of All Ages [Adorable]
Samsung’s 4Gb chip promises 32GB DDR3 memory modules for PCs and laptops

Tech Flashback: My old setup

It is always sad looking back at what you once had… For example when scanning old photos in I found these two shots of my old setup. What makes the picture even more sad is that I don’t live there ay more. Anyway it is a quite typical setup…. HP Deskjet 600c Printer,Proview 14″ crt, Koss speakers,Tons of floppys around,5.25 Floppy Drive, qic80 Tape drive, mitsumi scroll mouse on main machine.Tandy 12″ green screen cga monitor,datatrain keyboard, dexa mouse on the old tandy.It’s amazing how I remembered so much about that setup… Now that hp deskjet was HELL to refill but I kept it going for a far bit of time after my dad passed on to a new printer.

As per the OS’s they ran…: On Main Desk: Tower on desk I belive was Win98 (Right) and tower on floor (Left) i believe was Win 3.11 for workgroups, On 2nd desk: The Tany 1000 (A crappy hybred 286 with 8bit isa slots and cga graphics) obviously runs dos/tandy deskmate. What is interesting to see is how i achieved two machines on one desk… I couldn’t do that on my current desk since they are not at the same level.

Well that’s all for now…. Enjoy the pictures posted below :)

Main Desk
Old Desk - Main

2ND Desk
Old Desk - Second Desk

RSS Digest – #24 – Sorry for being so late edition…

Here are the links for: Wednesday, January 21th 2009…

$999 White MacBook Gets a Speed Bump
Intel to cut up to 6,000 jobs in factory shakeup
All Major Canadian ISPs Slow Down P2P Traffic | TorrentFreak
Apple COO Says No to Apple Netbook, Denigrates Existing Models
Apple drops anti-piracy measures from iWork ’09
Apple Hints At Palm Pre Legal Battle [Apple]
Apple reports record profit for first quarter
Apple’s Tim Cook Warns Competitors: If You Rip Off The iPhone, We’ll Go After You
Apple’s Disclosures About Jobs’s Health Said to Face SEC Review
Blurry Pics Allegedly Show G2, Slimmer and Keyboard-less Successor to T-Mobile’s G1 [Rumor]
Even Ubuntu’s founder likes Windows 7
Giz Explains: Why the Windows 7 Taskbar Beats Mac OS X’s Dock [Giz Explains]
Google to shut down print ads business
How Canadian ISPs throttle the Internet
HP Mini 1100-series netbooks turn up on HP’s website, details do not
Intel to cut jobs as it consolidates manufacturing
Left 4 Dead PC Wiimote hack for the gamer who has it all, hates zombies
LG’s New Dick Tracy-Style Watch Phone
Microsoft Expected to Cut 8,000 Jobs as Profit Weakens
Microsoft’s SkyBox is company’s answer to MobileMe
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420 GPU brings powerhouse graphics to SFF rigs
Replica Portal gun is an absolute triumph
Review of the 128K Mac
Sanyo’s 2009 HD Xacti camcorder lineup brings a trio of world’s firsts
Seagate firmware fix bricks Barracudas
Seagate Offers Free Data Recovery, Considers Drive Recall
Seagate posts half-billion-dollar loss, seems okay with that
Seven steps to a bootable Windows 7 thumb drive
Shawn Wilsher: Browser Chrome Tests No Longer Leak
The 10-inch Acer Aspire One takes some beauty shots
The Mac at 25
The Mac at 25: Interface design
The Mac at 25: OS X and the Classic Mac OS
The Mac at 25: Processors
The Mac at 25: The best Mac ever
There’s a right and wrong way to disable Windows Autorun
Twitterers remember their first Mac
Virtual Floppy Drive
Win 7 Beta Tip: Gadgets Are Integrated Directly onto the Desktop, But Are Slightly Buggy [Windows 7]
Wired Taps Google Death Plot