When Spark Plugs Improve your Horsepower and Fuel Economy

by Brandon Wirtz

I bought a 97 Jeep Wrangler.  4.0 Liter inline 6, a gas guzzler for its size.  This one was eating even more gas than I thought it should 14 miles to the gallon Highway.  So I looked for low hanging fruit.  The Idle didn’t sound quite right, so I assumed the spark plugs, or distributor [...]

Filed under : Hard on the Pocket Book, How To, Life Hacks

Time Capsule, Mac Networks

by Brandon Wirtz

A while back Jason Calacanis said that one way to cut start up costs was to fire your IT guy and get a bunch of Mac’s the other day, he was twittering that he was looking for a Mac IT guy.  Om Malik twittered today that his Time Capsule was destroying his network. I’m fighting [...]

Filed under : Industry News, Life Hacks

Xbox Live Everywhere Version 2 with Rainbow 6 Vegas 2

Xbox Live Everywhere Version 2 with Rainbow 6 Vegas 2 by Brandon Wirtz

You may have seen the original Xbox Live in car system which was limited to City Wide WiFi.  Version to Kicks it up a notch, with Sprint PCS allowing you to take the gaming anywhere you have Cellular Service, and with the help of the Wi-Ex Zboost a few places that you don’t. The previous [...]

Filed under : How To

Shopping for Auto Insurance and Buying a Car after the Lemon of a Jeep

by Brandon Wirtz

My Jeep Wrangler is a Lemon, and I am finally in the final stages of being rid of it.  But now I’m buying a Mini, and am sorting through the Auto insurance.  The Carrier I was using AIG, is good, they are not real tangible do everything by phone and mail.  I miss the Good [...]

Filed under : Rants and Tangents

Xbox Live Goes Mobile As We Play Rainbow 6 on Google Wifi

Xbox Live Goes Mobile As We Play Rainbow 6 on Google Wifi by Brandon Wirtz

“Your family Must Be Loaded” pretty much sums it up as we play the most expensive game of Uno ever caught on camera. We take Xbox 360 Gaming to a whhole new level as the XYHD crew piles in to my Jeep Wrangler, connected to Google WiFi, and mix it up in a round of Tom Clancy’s Rainbow [...]

Filed under : Hard on the Pocket Book, How To, Technical

Fairplay, DRM, Steve Jobs, and Rectal Extraction

by Brandon Wirtz

Steve Jobs liberated from his rectum some amazing pontification, saying…. The third alternative is to abolish DRMs entirely. Imagine a world where every online store sells DRM-free music encoded in open licensable formats. In such a world, any player can play music purchased from any store, and any store can sell music which is playable [...]

Filed under : Rants and Tangents