Jeremy's Notes

The Chumby One is now available for purchase from the Chumby Store. The improvements over the old “Chumby Classic” include:

• $99.95 Price Tag – That’s $100 less than the original Chumby!
• FM Tuner – Now the Chumby can trully replace all the functionality of your old alarm clock.
• Rechargeable Lithium Ion Battery – This allows the Chumby to continue to function while the power is out. Hopefully your battery doesn’t explode ;D Read more…

The new Chumby One is now available for preorder via the Chumby Store. If you order it now you will get around a $20 discount.

Get it @ The Chumby Store

I am disappointed about the direction that Chumby Industries is taking their new product. The Chumby One is no longer plushy, which to me, gave the Chumby Classic a very stylistic appeal. I don’t understand why the company doesn’t just improve the hardware specs of the classic Chumby and keep the same form factor. I feel that it looses it’s uniqueness with the new body. Here’s a quote from Matt Burns @ CrunchGear.com that describes exactly how I feel:

The original Chumby was soft, cuddly, and cute. The new Chumby One is uptight, all-business, and commercial. I hate it.
-CrunchGear.com “The Chumby One: More powerful, less cushy UPDATE“

It will be interesting to see how the final product will look. You can expect it to be in online stores sometime before the holidays.

Since August, my Xbox 360 has turned into the source of  all of my TV shows. This change was prompted by Microsoft and Netflix’s partnership, which gave the Xbox 360 exclusive rights to stream all of the content in the Netflix Watch Instantly on-demand library. When this feature came out, I was exstatic since I’d already had a Netflix subscription for over a year. I was now able to use my existing 360 and watch all of my favorite shows like The Office, Law and Order, CSI, The Shield, and many others. Read more…

In early September I started looking for a messenger bag for college. A few weeks earlier I happen to catch an episode of Tekzilla on Revision3 and a viewer happen to write-in and ask about a good place online to buy great messenger bags. They mentioned the Timbuk2 company out of San Fransico, CA and how they’ve been creating great bags for a while now. Since I needed a new bag and price really didn’t matter all that much, I checked out the  Timbuk2 website – timbuk2.com. I knew that I needed a bag that could handle carrying both a 15.4″ laptop and several textbooks. Those requirements led me to the Timbuk2 Commuter 2.0 laptop messenger bag. Read more…