The thoughts and findings of the Student Nerds!
ShareI think we have mentioned Google Sketchup before but I wanted to go into a little more depth about the product. If you are moving into a new apartment or home, Google Sketchup will help you build a room with a 3D model so you can see how thing are going to fit. I have [...]
ShareI really don’t travel that much but I have an obsession with being as organized as possible. TripIt allows you to easily manage all of your travels from their website, their mobile website or their newly released iPhone application. Another cool feature of TripIt is way that the service lets you share your travels with [...]
ShareI was in middle school when GoldenEye was first created and I remember sitting in front of the TV for hours on end. It had a great single player game along with one of the best multiplayer modes ever. A group of passionate gamers have created a new version of GoldenEye with updated graphics for [...]
Share I recently was giving a Blu-Ray player for a gift and I finally get to enjoy a pure HD signal. In addition to the Blu-Ray player, I signed up for a Netflix account to rent some Blu-Rays (buying them can get expensive and I made the mistake of accumulating a massive DVD collection that [...]
Share Being a Nerd I am constantly reading about new products coming out and also buying gadgets that I probably don’t need. Who really needs to own 3 iPods? I mean really, one for running (a Nano), one as a portable HD (2nd Gen 20gb), and one for entertainment (1st Gen iPod Touch). Even if [...]
Share Creating slideshows of your pictures can be a fun way to share a trip or experience with your family and friends. The only problem is that it can be such a time consuming process to make a cool slideshow with music. Well, today I’m going to show you a product that makes it very [...]
ShareI recently finished reading Thomas Friedman’s Hot, Flat, and Crowded, his follow up to The World is Flat. In this new work however, Friedman focuses much less on ‘Flat’ as a phenomena, and much more on it as a solution to the problems of the world being ‘Hot’ and ‘Crowded.’ Friedman’s basic thesis takes the [...]
Share So last night I was reading about Songbird which is a program powered by Mozilla (Makers of the popular Firefox browser). Songbird is an open source music management program to compete with iTunes. In fact it looks just like it, brushed metal and all. But here’s the kicker, you can not only browse the [...]
Share I recently purchased a new Netbook, while there are a number on the market from Asus and Lenovo. I chose to good with the Dell Inspirion Mini-9. I chose the Window XP version configured here. The reason I decided to go with the Netbook was two fold. First, and probably most important was price. [...]