Rasmus' Toys Page

I like this little iRiver 256M flash player. Small and light and great for running. Not very hackable though. The latest firmware does let you manage it like normal removable flash storage so you can use it easily from Linux or on Windows without any special software. TechTV Review Firmware upgrade info
The Archos harddrive players are getting a bit dated, but that also means they are cheap. I picked up a 10G Studio player for $85 a while back. It only has USB1.1 and a tiny 2-line display which makes it nearly impossible to navigate your songs, but I just stick it on random and let it do its thing. The best part about it is that it is very hackable. Check out the open source RockBox firmware for it:
[Update March 10, 2004] The Archos hard drive won't spin up anymore. Guess it took a few too many beatings coming with me on all my runs. Waiting to see if anything interesting comes out soon to replace it.

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People are always asking me which PHP applications I prefer. It is obviously a very subjective thing, but here is a list of ones I have worked with and liked: FUDForum is a very nice forum package writtern by Ilia.
Gallery is the ultimate photo album application. You can see it in action at phpics.com
Serendipity is a cool blog package. I really don't like blogs, but as you can see from this toy page which is using Serendipity it doesn't have to be just for your standard boring and useless blog. It can be used for a useless toy page too.

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I have this Dell LCD and I highly recommend it. It's rather bulky and not nearly as slick looking as many others, but the image quality is great. Wait for a Dell Small Business sale and you can pick it up for $750-$850. Make sure you get a DVI-capable graphics card to go with it. I found DVI quality quite a bit better than analog. Review: Cadalyst Labs

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