Disk Inserted

Hello everyone! Sorry for not blogging for quite some time. I’ve noticed some unfortunate down time with the site and I was also on a cruise to Turks and Caicos and The Bahamas for the past two weeks. I’ll have pictures from my trip up soon for all of you to see!

I wanted to do a little segment about all the technology that goes into Disk Inserted. The equipment used to write posts, take pictures, edit on the fly and basically products and gadgets we here at Disk Inserted find us using in our everyday lives.

The first gadget in my lineup is possibly not the most important gadget, but it’s most definitely the best. This laptop is the best machine I have ever purchased in my entire life. It’s the Lenovo IdeaPad Y430-5342U. This baby sports a 14.1” WXGA LED screen, a 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T6400 64-bit dual core processor with a 800 MHz frontside bus and 2 MB L2 cache, 4 GB of DDR3 RAM, a 250 GB hard drive, 6 in 1 memory card reader, a dual layer DVD±R/RW burner as well as an integrated 1.3 MP webcam and Wireless Draft N to boot!

I absolutely love this laptop and it beats the pants off of my T5500 Gateway I had a few years ago. Not the mention, I noticed that Lenovo doesn’t bloat down the system with useless software or preinstalled junk unlike many of the leading OEM manufacturers out there. Not only that, the price can’t be beat for the features. I managed to pick this unit up while Circuit City was going through its liquidation process for a mere $650 after discounts and taxes.

Check out a detailed review and specifications for the Y430 on CNET’s website located here .

If you’ve ever thought to yourself “I’ll never need to use that feature” or “I just make and receive phone calls” you’ve obviously never had the pleasure of using a BlackBerry. Simply the best PDA and smartphone wrapped into one for the money, my BlackBerry Curve 8900 from T-Mobile is with me no matter where I go. This particular model of RIM’s award winning BlackBerries features a 480×360 LCD screen, an auto focusing 3.2 MP camera with flash, 256 MB of internal flash memory and a completely redesigned look of the both the physical device and the OS. Price is most definitely a nail bitter, but you can pick it up for less than $200 with a new 2 year agreement or an upgrade. Otherwise, you’re looking at close to $500 plus.

Check out Engadget’s review of the 8900 for T-Mobile here.

The quality of the camera is far superior to any camera phone whether it be VGA, 1.3, 2.0, or even 3.2 megapixels. I’ll have to say that any device that I can make and receive phone calls with, text with blazing accuracy and speed, tweet, Facebook, MySpace, IM and email while on the go instantly becomes my best friend. I almost considered getting a Sidekick LX instead. I’m sure glad I stuck with the BlackBerry…

I just picked up this camera for about $250 at BestBuy on the 3rd, a day before I left for my trip. I wanted to get a better camera to replace my piece of trash 8 MP Polaroid that I had. After doing some research, I decided to pick up the 12.1 MP Canon PowerShot SD780 IS. Words cannot express how impressed I am with this camera and the quality pictures it produced. My family was shocked by the full HD pictures and 720p video I recorded of my trip. Yes, you heard me right… this baby is capable of recording 720p HD video while utilizing the camera’s 3x optical zoom! I wish the flash remained functional while video recording, but I’m not one to complain. The interface of the camera is simply amazing and extremely easy to use. All I have to do it just point and shoot and viola! The camera knows what you’re taking a picture of and adjusts accordingly, the ISO and white balance auto configure themselves and viola! The picture displays and saves instantly to my memory card. I managed to pick up my camera with an accessories package that included a case, additional battery and a 4 GB SanDisk Secure Digital memory card. After doing some shopping around, not even MicroCenter offered a somewhat similar deal. Overall, this gadget is turning heads everywhere I take it.

Take a closer look at the PowerShot SD780 IS as well as reviews and specs at BestBuy’s site.

I hope you enjoyed my little technology segment! I’m sure the rest of the team will be sure to follow and inform all of you about their gadgets and gizmos.

many things are going to be addressed in the long, probably boring yet creative post, so listen closely and put your drinks down mmkay?

yes folks. i am very sorry to inform everyone that due to the lack of interest and the fact that i’m just plain too lazy to have anything to do with the forum, that i’m going to be taking it down. not only that, but about half of my space limit is being used.

on another note, i wanted to bring to everyone’s attention that disk inserted is growing… rapidly and out of control! we first came into the world a mere month ago and were averaging about 35 unique visits a day and now, about a month later, we are getting approximately 90 unique visits a day with over 1,000 hits! that’s amazing! thanks to everyone for spreading the word and telling your friends about us!

we have even more news about the site! in april, our monthly total of visits were close to 790 with hits totaling well over 22,700! that’s right! since mid april up until today, so far we have close to 26,500 hits and approximately 1,000 visits! that is completely insane! some of you people out there might be saying it’s garbage and that your site is so much more popular. well, one… you can bite it… and two… considering the fact that we are less than a month old, it’s extremely good and we are very happy!

ah, yes… another danger party! this time it’s going to be on a saturday at yet another new location. a 5 story former strip club is going to be our domain for a night of promised non stop music, drinks, and fire… yes, fire. if you know the way we roll here at di, you’ll know that we party until the sun rises… or at least until the mean people (most of the time police) raid the place and shut us down at 3 in the morning. unfortunately, the nypd does not like our party habits. may 9th, come join the celebration with us in the city that never sleeps.

…the beautiful things that desperation brings.

One truth to the long history of this city is that great stories are born
of adverse circumstances.  The collapse of Wall St. (as we knew it) has
allowed a renaissance of libidinous adventure in the least likely
places…

Saturday May 9th, you are invited to join us in the reclamation of an
abandoned strip club.  We’ve cleaned out much of the debris congesting
this five floor former pleasure palace and will re-infuse it with liquor,
fire and a generous dose of the exquisitely out-of-control.

RSVP’s will be limited.  A hint is at: http://www.thedanger.com

Full details will be released in the days to come…