28 May, 2005
Gaming headset
Tritton has come out with surround sound headphones, that include a built-in microphone. These headphones have four drivers in each of ear pieces, used to give the surround sound effect. These look like they would be good for online games.
Unfortunately, these only have a USB interface, so they require a Windows driver installed in order to use them. I would love to see one of these compatible with the PlayStation 2. When I play SOCOM II, I usually wear headphones on top of the headset, so I don't wake the kids or my wife up. This gets pretty uncomfortable after a while. I would love it if someone would make a headphone that integrated a microphone. Then the cable would have two ends. One with a headphone plug to connect to the main sound source, and then another mini jack plug to connect to the headset port.
[via Engadget]
28 May, 2005
Bluefish
In the May 2005 issue of Linux Pro Magazine there was a review of the Bluefish HTML editor. I downloaded it through fink to try it out. It looks like a pretty good program to edit html. It looks better than Mozilla or emacs, which is what I have been using.