From the monthly archives:

December 2007

2008 PSTAM Reader Roll Call

December 31, 2007 · 121 comments

Depending on where you reside, 2008 will be arriving shortly or is just a countdown away. This blog more than doubled in subscribers in 2007 so I want to take this time and do another “roll call” type post. The spotlight will turn to you and I ask you to post a [click to continue…]

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Thoughts on Blu-ray vs. HD DVD

December 28, 2007 · 39 comments

The future high-definition data format has not been set in stone yet. There is a format war going on between the Blu-ray format and the HD DVD format for which will become the true successor to DVD. Currently, the two formats co-exist with each having their own pros and cons but overall having two HD formats [click to continue…]

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My Tech New Year’s Resolution

December 26, 2007 · 24 comments

2007 was a great year for myself and this blog. I started a company with some great people and gained some business sense from dealing with the inner workings of a startup directly. PaulStamatiou.com received a revamp complete with new logo and branding. I got to [click to continue…]

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Make This Startup: HD Video Serving Service

December 25, 2007 · 21 comments

Here I am, the night before Christmas, thinking about what I’m going to do with the high-definition camcorder I bought myself. Naturally, I am going to use it to share some HD video on this site to spice up reviews and so on. The problem lies in how to get that large amount of content from the server to your display. [click to continue…]

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My Nike+ Ad

December 22, 2007 · 55 comments

I got an email from Nike’s ad agency back in November. After many more emails, quite a few calls, a demo video, film scouting and then a day of shooting, I became the star of my own Nike+ conversional ad. There are currently 5 conversionals up and they briefly take you into the life of a real Nike+ user that converted [click to continue…]

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Are Desktop Computers Dying?

December 21, 2007

BarCamps, Startup Weekends, Coworking, Panera, Starbucks, Ritual Roasters – all places typically flooded with Wi-Fi and laptop-toting patrons. Over the last five years, the increasing prevalence of wireless networking and the advancement of smaller and more mobile laptops have led to a stunning laptop adoption rate.

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Stammy’s Holiday 2007 Gift Picks

December 17, 2007

Holidays have rolled around again and I’ve spotted a few things here and there that I’d like to recommend. All of them are somehow related to tech – you won’t find me recommending any argyle cashmere sweaters here (I recommend this Burberry piece).

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Review: Sony GC1 Net-Sharing Cam

December 15, 2007

Sony recently targeted the young YouTube/video-blogger crowd with their $149 (sans memory stick) GC1 Net-Sharing Cam. The GC1 does double-duty as a 5MP camera with flash and a video camcorder capable of capturing 640×480 30fps video in MPEG4 format, ready for uploading to any of your favorite video sharing sites. At the highest video setting, [...]

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Finals Week: Fall 2007 Edition

December 11, 2007

It’s that time of year again. I will be locked away in my room studying for several finals and completing various class projects as this semester comes to an end. Naturally, it will be a little stagnant here for a while. Good luck to the students out there also coping with finals.

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Review: Xenide 20W HID Flashlight

December 7, 2007

Don’t you hate it when you get lost in Alaskan outback at night, miles away from civilization, with nary a flame to guide you? I know, it sucks right? Well not for long. The next time you head out, pack an AE Light Xenide flashlight – actually, it’s a personal searchlight. The Xenide

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How To: Quickly Sleep Your MacBook

December 6, 2007

By default, recent Macs ship with their hibernate mode set such that when your Mac goes to sleep, contents of the RAM remain stored in the powered-on RAM in addition to written to the hard disk. The is called safe sleep mode because in the event that your computer loses power during sleep, the contents [...]

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In The Lab: AE Xenide HID Flashlight

December 5, 2007

Hot on the heels of my review of Wicked Lasers’ Elite Series 150+ green laser comes the AE Xenide flashlight. The Xenide utilizes a High Intensity Discharge system similar to the HID/Xenon headlights found in newer cars. This is no pedestrian flashlight by any means. I’ll be writing a full review

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DNS-O-Matic Launches

December 3, 2007

Does your ISP give you a dynamic IP (most do)? Have you ever tried setting up a server from that Internet connection, setting up your Slingbox for Internet viewing or setting up a slew of IP-dependent services? Chances are those things broke when your IP changed and you had to reconfigure them. Enter DNS-O-Matic.

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Why I Don’t Play Games and What I Would Play If I Did

December 2, 2007

When family, friends and acquaintances find out I am a computer enthusiast, they usually assume that I am also a big gamer. The opposite is true as I have haven’t played any games of my own in years – such is the curse of the Mac user. I don’t own a Wii, XBox 360 or [...]

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