Hello, to all, today is my 36th BirthDay!!!, I didn't know Google thanked people on their B-Day, by changing the logo!, that's pretty cool! ... should of had music, tough!

Want FREE, cool, and legal to download games ;-)   I totally recommend this site:

http://www.mmobomb.com/

Here are some of my favorite FREE softwares:

XBMC - Want to build a media-center? well I recommend this application, which is available, well, for EVERY operating system, and device you can imagine! and will play back ANY video & audio format in FULL-HD!! and has a TON of options, and plugins, etc, to me, it is the best thing out there for using in a media-center or just to play-back everything! here is the link: http://xbmc.org/

I have used and recommended this antivirus to friends & family for years now, and it hasn't failed for me, has detected & protected me from lots of sites with malware, viruses, etc. It is available for Win & Android devices, for android, it also has an anti-theft system where you can track your phone via GPS, and see where it is located in case of theft or if it gets lost, also blocks the device & can erase all data from it.

http://www.avast.com

If you like astronomy, and looking at the stars, will you definately love this open-source program. It has a realtime view of the sky from any place on earth, and can also control computerized telescopes, it has a huge database of stars, planets, etc, and you can update it from the program.  http://www.stellarium.org/

Bluetooth RC car!

The other day, while I was in CVS looking at a Popular Science magazine, I saw this ad, that really got my attention. It was about a small RC car that is controlled via BlueTooth with a Iphone, it looks soo cool, so I taught I would post it in here to show it to all of you guys out there, here is a video demo, and a link to the site: http://zenwheels.com/

This is the future!!!!, Google Glasses!, they are like super-awesome augmented reality glasses that you wear and they give you an overlay of information, etc. of everything around you!!!

 

Ever since I heard of the RaspBerry Pi, I have fallen in love with it, I mean, what Geek like me wouldn't?!?!? a computer for developing stuff, or "tinkering" with for about $35?!?!?! so I saw this video, that I think you guys may like where they built a SUPER-COMPUTER! using 64 of them!!! all I can say is... WOW, I WANT ONE!, I will be putting up more info. and videos on it later.

 Here's the video:

 

My teacher was talking today in class about the guy that founded McAfee got arrested or something, so I went to see if I could find a video, or news article somewhere, and here it is!:

Other computers that I have owned...

Here are the other computers I have had, that either my dad has bought me, or people have handed to me:

The first one that my dad bought me was a Tandy 1000-SL, from Radio Shack, I remember playing lot's of games on it!, it had a 8086 CPU running at 8MHz, super-ultra slow compared to what we have now, but in those days I was marveled by it!, and it only had a 5.25" floppy drive that stored 360k of data. The operating system was called "DeskMate", it ran directly from a ROM chip, and if you wanted to setup the BIOS or boot into DOS you would have to insert a floppy. Later on I upgraded the memory from 384k to 640k, and my dad bought me the 3.5" 720k floppy wich was around $70 in those days! nowadays you gan even get a floppy drive for free! LOL!

Tandy 1000-SL

Few years later my parents bought me a Packard Legend 2051, which was the first computer I used that came with Windows For WorkGroups 3.11, It was really cool, and had a HDD, and CD-ROM drive!

I installed a 28.8k modem in it wich I later updgraded to 56k. And that's when I started getting into the world of what was called "Bulletin Board Systems" wich you dialed-in with the modem, I still remember where I would go every month to download the BBS phone directory, it was called "The Atomic Cafe".

Packard Bell Legend-2051

Tech biography continued...

From elementary to high-school I used Apple computers, I got to work on the first Apple computers!, the Apple II, Apple IIgs, Mac Classic, etc! They used them to teach us math, history & science. And in high-school I got to work with the old-school IBMs, and Mac Classics, I was taking desktop publishing, and other computer classes, and Autocad.

 Apple IIe

Apple IIgs

Mac Classic

IBM PC

My "techological" biography

I was born in Ponce on February 24, 1977. I was raised with my aunt and grandparents the most of the time, and also lived in Venezuela. Then in 1984 went to La Porte, Texas to live with my parents. I graduated from La Porte High School in 1995.

My grandpa, and other people in my family have always loved to invent and tinker with things, I loved watching my grandpa when he was fixing stuff around the house and learned a lot from him, I especially liked to invent with electricity, which got me in to trouble a lot of times.

When I was living with my dad in Texas, we used to tinker with lots of electronics projects, like making circuits in breadboards, and building electronic kits, he also showed me how to solder.

The first computer I ever touched in my life was my dad's, a Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer II from Radio Shack that he had bought, and on there I learned how to program in BASIC, I used to invent my own programs too. That computer is still at my aunt's house.... somewhere stored away!
Here is more info on it, with specs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Color_Computer