Gadgetory

hey guys it's jeff arena with pocket now calm and today i'm actually to show you something that's totally different than what I've shown you thus far you may have seen that we've actually started to give you an in-depth look at our setups at home and how we bring the content to you on pocketnow.com now so far Brandon and Joe of both recorded their setups geo had his server room and Joe had his awesome triple monitor setup today I'm going to show you mine if you haven't seen Brandon and Joe's yet there's actually going to be a link here and a link here so please feel free to go watch those let's go ahead and jump into mine alright guys we're back and the first thing I'm going to show you is actually very similar to what Joe showed you earlier he has the server closet well my room we actually have the utility closet which houses our networking gear which is simple as a modem itself a wireless router and then an eight ports which we have lots as you can see here lots and lots of cable this is i have comcast so this is the comcast modem that they give you when you have their digital voice the cable the internet the whole nine yards as you can see they do a great wiring job and will believe it at that but i didn't want to show you that just so that i could show that it does somewhat have a comparison to joe's grated you know I don't have the storage in my closet I was thinking about putting it here I do have it in a separate area but I don't of a server like he does and I definitely nvm for them i'm pretty jealous of that setup it's really nice but moving on to my computer where everything happens over here we have a mid-2010 15-inch macbook pro this is the i7 model I'd only has four gigs of RAM I'm gonna be upgrading it to eight eventually probably very soon with all the video editing that I've been doing for the high def video and such but it is the 15 inch i7 it's pretty fast IV hi-res screen on mine which is very nice as you can see next to it I have a 23 inch just a standard old HD acer monitor which unfortunate is a little hard to focus on too because of the low light but as you can see here it's showing pocket now with plenty of space here on the sides no issues whatsoever so what I like to do is I can click and drag a window from one screen to the other with the mac functionality built right in which is very nice you I can take this window here bring it over here if I want to whatever it may be for that matter it's a great moderates a great sup helps me to be very productive especially where I may have email on one screen and a video on the other or homework me being a student homework on the screen research on this screen itself so it just makes my life easier you can see i also have a webcam here I do a lot of the podcasting I'm on the simulcast podcast where I represent pocketnow absolutely so that's that's part of my show I do have a USB headset that I do use to record that show now looking over here as you can see lots and lots of wires now this is the ethernet I do have wireless in my house as I showed you the wireless router but fit when it comes to uploading the video I do want to use the hardwire huge speed difference for me it's well worth it next IV firewire 800 which goes to external hard drive which I will show you this is my mini displayport adapter which goes to this second monitor here then 2 USBS which is kind of the downside with the macbook pro and then from there we have the audio jack which basically brings me to my next shot is my bose companion speakers one here one there the subwoofer is down below I should see that this is my subwoofer we have the nice magsafe adapter cyber home low battery backup in regular USB keyboard the reason why I have that keyboard is because this macbook pro does have windows seven on it using bootcamp as well as the vmware fusion so i'm able to use both windows and the mcafee need to as a matter of fact I do actually plan to running nice long hdmi converter cable from the mini displayport to my plasma over there which I'll get to next now as I said I have a lot of storage so on my storage it's a little hard to see but on the left here I have a western digital my book studio this is the firewire 800 version which is a lot faster for me that's only a 500 gigabyte it's a few few years old next to that I have another western digital just in my book though and it's a one terabyte now the reason why I have a one terabyte and a 500 gigabyte is it's it's funny you may ask this one terabytes partition into two spots 500 gigs of that is backing up my macbook pro here with time machine there the 500 gigs is a copy of this drive so I've strives before it may sound redundant to you guys have lobster eyes before that's the best way for me to keep track of it so I'm guarantee not to lose it up here I have a cavalry just a no-name drive was a gift it's a 160 gigabyte I put purely movies on there you know if I want to watch a movie whatever it may be that's on there then I have a two-and-a-half-inch try this is my portable drive for files mostly pictures if I'm Alton over on the road I take a picture from the macbook pro here it goes right here then that glow you see in the back is a USB hub which again I brought you this cameras and have a light but there's a lot of wiring going through there as you can see down here it's a rat's nest now again all my editing takes place on this guy right here it's on am design rain stand so it makes a little bit easier for me to kind of do my editing and more ergonomic which I'll show you there that's all the wiring coming through so it's a nice design it's just an accessory basis that takes your macbook or any laptop for that matter and stands it right up and I'll show you a better angle over this way makes it a lot easier for me to use it sit in my chair which my chair is very different from most people's it is the a kak makes this a company that makes gaming chairs so AK and you can see here it's the octane that's their version of the computer chair now I have a berber carpet didn't want to use one of those plastic mats I'm not a fan of them now I got this chair so you can see here because it has the rollerblade wheels so I'm able to move smoothly on the carpet without an issue at all makes life a little bit easier for me but I would say this is a very good work station for me I do want to upgrade the RAM to the eight gigs because it will make editing video that much easier and that much faster as you can see here this is my main device that I use primarily and full time it is the sprint EVO I love it came from the nexus one before I do miss these the AMOLED screen but hey what can you say king of everything right I do like the size of the phone it's easier for me to text on it and Sprint's more let's say affordable pricing for me being a student works great as well now the one other thing I do want to show you is going to be my home theater setup now and the small amount of free time I have I have to do a lot of gaming now you can see here first off it's a mess I actually just got back from vacation and I pulled this wall plate off right here that's why all the wires are just scattered because what I'm actually going to be doing is getting a ps3 what's in the next week and I'm going to be adding that and stringing up the wiring through the little conduit we have right there so I have to pull that play it off that's why the wires are just on the floor as you see right there pretty pretty ugly but I have a nice old receiver does the job it's about four or five years old I have the new slim xbox 360 with the the touch controls you know i just press here opens right up pretty cool i know this isn't like plucking out relative but again this is what i enjoy and then many of you have comments on the videos i have the high def DVD player rest in peace and then of course the plasma so this is basically where all my editing and all of my digital leisure let's say takes place everything you see that I do on pocket now takes place here my backdrop in our record a video of myself is always of my TV in that area over there so that kind of gives you a better perspective of my studio setup so once again guys this is jeff Farina for pocketnow.com make sure you stay tuned what we have coming cuz is a lot of material coming a lot of cool phones and more thanks everybody