Weekend Tech News Wrap-Up

First of all, I now have exactly two invitations to Joost. Comment if you want one…first come, first serve. Joost has been too robust to run on my Inspiron 1100 laptop, which means I haven’t played with it much. Once you go laptop, it’s hard to go back. Even though my desktop is more powerful and much faster, I can’t seem to tether myself to it again. What I really need is a new Windows Vista laptop. Say what you want, Vista is cool. Hey, it’s the next Windows, you’ll have to use it one day, so you may as well start now. And Aero — nice! I played with some laptops at Circuit City the other day, and I’m sold.

And call me a girl, but I’d kill for a pink Sony VAIO. PINK! Oh, and the aren’t too shabby, either: Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T5500, 2 GB RAM, 160 GB Hard Drive, DVD±RW Drive, Vista Business…yes please!

Finally, I got an invite to Undo TV. The site is a project created by former TechTV’ers, Leo Laporte and Chris Pirillo. The online TV network will, once again, bring tech televsion content to the people. The shows will feature many former Tech TV hosts, but viewers can also upload their own content. Yay…user-gen. This may be a very un-Web 2.0 statement for me to say, but I wish they had decided to not go the user-gen/digg-clone route with Undo TV and just choose to feature top-quality videos by the former telvesion professionals we knew and loved. At least it’s a one-click deal to filter content from "everyone" to "hosts." Now, where’s the save as default option?