Tech With Xecab

My wife got me a pair of these earphones for Christmas a year ago. I knew the name Shure and had seen these earphones, but had never given any real consideration to them. With a price tag of around $100, they were a little steep for me. My wife decided she would spend the money [...]

A while back I posted about Snapple Peach Iced Tea was one of my favorite drinks. A couple of weeks ago, I noticed that Snapple had changed their tea. The packaging looked different and it reads “Made with Green and Black Tea”. I thought the formula had changed, but couldn’t tell what exactly had been [...]

I was walking through Toys R Us with my wife and son and noticed the GPS units. I had been pondering purchasing a unit since so many people were raving about the usefulness of the devices. I stopped and glanced through what they had in stock and noticed that there was a unit for $151.00. [...]

A while back I picked up a Gerber Suspension Multitool. When I purchased the tool, I thought it was nice, but as time went by I, my opinion started to change. In the time I got my Gerber, I have bought a Leatherman Wave and a Victorinox Swisstool RS. Once you have both of these [...]

For the last year my pocket knife of choice has been a Swiss Army Deluxe Tinker. The knife is just about the perfect size for the features you get. Alone with the standard large and small knife blades, you get a can opener, bottle opener, small flat tip screw driver, large flat tip screw driver, [...]

This is a great episode and part of season 8 which is definitely my favorite season. This is a great MST3K episode to show anyone not familiar with the show. Horror of Party Beach is a perfect movie for Mike and the Bots to make fun of. While some episodes can slow down with the [...]

Twenty years ago my father bought me a pair of Sony MDR-V4 headphones. The headphones were terrific and I used them constantly for over ten years. Two years ago I decided I wanted a new pair of headphones to replace the earbuds that come with the iPod since the sound quality is so poor. Size [...]

I became a subscriber to Netflix shortly after they started renting out DVDs years ago. For about a year I was a member and the experience was nice. I cancelled my subscription for reasons I can’t remember now and over the years watched as they grew larger and larger. I remember reading the news about [...]

A couple of years ago I was in a used book store and noticed some Indiana Jones Novels. This was a surprise since I had not seen or heard of them before. Since the books were used and didn’t cost much, I figure I would take a chance and purchase a couple. As it turned [...]

Photographers raved over Adobe Lightroom when it came out. Now Adobe has released version 2 of the product. Anyone who takes photography serious or is striving to make their pictures have a little more of a professional look, needs this program. The feature set is large, but nothing on the scale of what Photoshop offers. [...]

Several years ago there was a show on called The Critic. It started Jay Sherman (the voice of Jon Lovits). It’s a pretty good show, but the humor can be a little flat at times. The humor is not for everyone. If you have not ever seen it and are not a fan of The [...]

This is one of my all time favorite movies. I’m not going to get into a large review. You can google reviews on this movie. The Private Eyes is a great movie, but you may not like it if you don’t like movies that are a little on the silly side. There is nothing smart [...]

Kristofer Brozio over at Test Freaks has a new series of tests. This time the tests are with 16GB Flash Drives. He has also tested other flash drives and I have to say, these are the most thorough flash drive tests you are going to fine. I hope he keeps up the great work. http://www.testfreaks.com/blog/information/16gb-usb-drive-comparison-17-drives-compared/ [...]

Michael J. Nelson is best known from his work on Mystery Science Theater 3000. This was a brilliant show and ran for about 10 years. Since MST3K went off the air 10 years ago, Mike Nelson has written a few books. They are wonderful and the humor is top notch. I have read two of [...]

Almost everyone has heard a Moby song. There have been several prominent television comercials which have featured his music along with radio play and movies. His music is very distinctive, some can actually pick out a Moby song they have never heard before. The album “18″ is the followup to his very sucessful album “play”. [...]