Bassboomz Portable Bluetooth Speaker

rmiles7721February 19, 20138Site News

So I got the opportunity recently to review the Bassboomz portable bluetooth speaker and as much as I love new gadgets I was eager to proceed.

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I received the unit earlier today while I was at work, thus the wife had already gotten hold of it before I managed to get home. She enjoys some of the gadgets almost as much as I do but I normally have to set them up first. As I said, my wife had already unboxed (half of the fun) the portable speaker and had it charging for me.

The Bassboomz speaker itself retails for around $130 US which while it seems a bit high to me is quite within the price realm of some of the other bluetooth speakers I’ve looked at, although a bit on the high side (more on that later).

The Bassboomz is compatible with your laptop, desktop, cell phone or tablet. Since you can hook up via line-in OR Bluetooth chances are you can use it with whatever you’ve got.

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Inside the box is the bluetooth speaker itself, a standard microUSB cord for charging, a 3.5mm line and directions to get set up. It’s actually pretty easy to set up with or without them but it’s always nice to have easy to follow directions included.

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Product Reviews

rmiles7721February 19, 2013Site News

It’s been a while since I’ve done any type of product review here but I decided that it was time to throw the proverbial hat into the ring and start doing a few here and there. I don’t plan on doing many paid reviews anymore though and if I do you can be sure that it will be disclosed in the post.

Anyway, it’s not as if I post extensively any more. I would guess that about 90% of the content here is fed from my G+ feed as well as Twitter and Disqus.

Android App For Discriminating Females (and Some Guys Too!)

rmiles7721February 7, 2013Site News

So…back in August I shared with you an Android app I had found called Pooplog. I had a good laugh when I came across that one but now I’ve found another app that takes the cake.

It’s called “the Predicktor”

What’s the Predicktor do? It predicts…well, penis size. Heh. Supposedly based on butt size among other things. Here’s a shot from one of the screens.

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I guess there’s just not much more to say about this. Oh yeah, watch the damned video.

 

Here’s a press release from the company:

Doctor-Led Company Unveils The Predicktor, a Mobile App That Predicts Penis Size

Ultimate conversation starter answers the question: “What’s in the package?”

TORONTO, Feb. 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ – The Doctor Says Inc. today introducedThe Predicktor, a fun and factual mobile app that predicts penis size using personal stats like height and finger length.

How do you stack up to your friends? Is that a cell phone in your date’s pocket? The Predicktor (www.thepredicktor.com) has the answers.

The app’s calculator uses only physical attributes proven by scientific research to be associated with penis length and discards all others, like race.

“The Predicktor is an entertaining antidote to the widespread insecurity, anxiety and dissatisfaction among men over their penis size,” says Dr. Christopher Culligan , a family physician and CEO of mobile health app developer The Doctor Says.

The new app takes a prickly subject into the open, busts a few myths, and adds a few laughs on the way. To get the conversation going, it offers instant access to the facts. For example:

  • There is no scientific evidence to support a connection between race and penis size.
  • Porn stars are statistical outliers, not the norm; men are more likely to be over 6’3″ than to have a penis longer than 7.5 inches.
  • Gay men’s penises are longer and wider on average than straight men’s, according to a Kinsey Institute study.

The Predicktor is available immediately for Android smartphones viawww.thedoctorsays.com. A Blackberry version will be available later this week.

 

Some Things I Just Can’t Share on Facebook…

rmiles7721January 16, 2013Entertainment

…although I’m not sure but I may have this site linked…Hmm…

 

What the hell…

 

 

Graphical Setup Tutorial For Fastecho

rmiles7721January 16, 2013BBS

Roger Shays has put up a Fastecho tutorial for those interested. Thanks Roger.

You can find it here.

Replace the Message Read Prompt in SBBS – Updated and Fixed***

rmiles7721January 2, 2013BBS

I had to change one line in the prompt below. Where it says @SMB_LAST_MSG@ that should read @SMB_TOTAL_MSGS@. The last message @-Code gives a total number of messages in the sub including deleted, dupes, etc…which may not match what the system actually shows. I found that out in some of the message bases that have a lot of posts, such as new file listings.

A while back I explained how to replace the message header (two ways, easy and hard) but now my prompt doesn’t match so I replaced my message reading prompt before work this morning. Here are the directions along with a couple of pics:

  1. Create your ansi prompt. Here’s mine along with an explanation of the @-codes I used.

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The @SMB_GROUP@ tells SBBS to list the current message group (Local, Fidonet, etc…) @SMB_SUB@ is the current sub, or message area, within that group. @SMB_CURMSG@ is the current message number in that group and last of all @SMB_LAST_MSG@ is the last message number available. You’ll see what they do a little later on.

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How to Change The User Settings Screen in SBBS

rmiles7721January 1, 2013BBS

So the next thing I decided to tackle on the board was the default user settings screen on my board.

I initially attempted to change the text strings in my baja menu source by using the REPLACE_TEXT command in it. That apparently won’t work for whatever reason, so I had to edit the text.dat directly. Be very careful when you edit your text.dat file because you can royally screw things up here.

What I did was to create the entire screen in Ansi and then save each line as a separate file at which point I replaced the text like so:

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Make sure to leave the line between prompt 493 and 494 as it is or you’ll mess things up.

This is what it looks like now.

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I don’t have any plans to replace the header and footer strings at the moment although I might attempt to do that later. It was actually pretty easy, just a bit of copy and replace. Make sure to only use the string itself, don’t add the ending ESC[255D if your ansi editor inserts it at the end of the file.

BBS Update…

rmiles7721December 19, 20124BBS

So I’ve added a few more games and things to do on the BBS foryou to check out. I also managed to get Ftelnet working as well. Using that page (above) as my default log in now just because it’s much easier for this old man to see . Anyway, I am about 60% of the way through configuring everything the way I want. I still have a few menus to add and then it will be time to change most of the default strings. I’ve posted a few pics below of what it’s looking like now.

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The log in screen

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How to Set Up EleBBS Under Linux

rmiles7721December 12, 20124BBS

Over at R&M Software Rick Parrish has several how-to’s posted I wanted to make sure and archive. This is one of them. You can visit the original here. All of this is from his site, I’ve just borrowed (stolen) it here.

This HOWTO is based on the following software:

RedHat 7.3
EleBBS 0.09g1

First, the steps involved in installing EleBBS

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How to Set Up Tribbs to Access Fidonet

rmiles7721December 10, 2012BBS

Here’s another how-to from zharvek over at Archaic Binary. The original post can be found at the link. Tribbs was the second BBS software I ran way back in the early ’90s. I probably used it for about a year or so before moving on to something I could modify a bit more.

Ah what an adventure this is getting to be. As you may know I’m setting up my old Telnet BBS again, not just the door games, but the full system including File Areas, Message Bases, and yes the Door Games.

I have all the games working so far, and file transfers are fine when you use a good client (mTelnet or SyncTerm).

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