So the picture to the right is not a tremendously good one, but it is a photo of a singularly spectacular sunset that took place here a few days ago. The catch is that I took the picture on my cell phone, a Motorola KRZR. A year ago, that picture would have been trapped on my cell phone, never to see the light of day anywhere else… however, now that my new desktop has integral Bluetooth capabilities, and, coincidentally, so does my phone… Well, magic happens. After a little difficulty with getting the two to actually talk to each other, I finally got the phone to send the picture over to the computer, and there we have it. The only oddity was that the phone said it took the picture at 1280×1024 resolution, but after seeing it on my computer at 640×512, I checked and saw that it was the same, smaller resolution on the phone. Not sure where it screwed up with that, or if making the picture my background on the phone messed it up, but it should (theoretically) be fixed now.
Ain’t technology grand? Cell phone cameras may, by and large, still be crappy, but now it is so much easier to share that crappiness with the rest of the ‘verse!
How did I miss that post on your XPS?! SWEET rig!
Love the SLI…
-A
Trust me, so am I
. Seamless graphics on Supreme Commander and anything else I have tried to feed it, for that matter… Going from my 6-year-old Sony to this was one hell of a step, believe you me.
Supreme Commander! YUM! I love that game.
Enjoy the hardware man… Nice choice!
Did you ever play Total Annihilation, one of Chris Taylor’s first widely popular games? I lost so much of my younger years to Total Annihilation. It was around right after Diablo II, and had an awesome LAN/IP multiplayer. Dang I loved that thing!
I just upgraded my rig a few months ago too – no SLI though – and I’ve been doing a stint of the “best of breed” games that I couldn’t play for the last few years. After a long stint with Supreme Commander I’m now hooked on World In Conflict and Assassin’s Creed. Totally different games, but equally immersive. I tried Sins of a Solar Empire for a while, but found it too…boring? Ever since Master of Orion II, I’ve been searching for a space conquest game that was worth its salt, and nothing has ever really been able to even hit that mark. Starfleet Command 3 (released 2002!) came really darn close.
Anyway, I digress.