Category Archives: Technology

Silent Running: Abandoned ...

It was after this scene that I decided to turn this off. The dia­logue is super­fi­cial, the act­ing worse, and I don’t think this is a plau­si­ble sce­nario for Earth in the future. Who­ever it was that rec­om­mended this to me: I’ll pass on the next one.

Light-powered batteries and chargers ...

Charge your cell phone using light, cour­tesy SunCore [SunCore’s] Nova­cell is an exter­nal charger that will power mobile devices via a USB con­nec­tion. That’s the con­nec­tion found on most cell phone charg­ers today. That’s not all Sun­Core is work­ing on. The com­pany also devel­ops embed­ded light-powered batteries. The only thing that would make this cooler would be [...]

Least frustrating system ...

stevenf​.com: I don’t con­sider myself blindly brand-loyal to the Mac. I know, right? Co-founder of a indie Mac soft­ware company? I find Mac OS X to be the least frus­trat­ing of the cur­rently avail­able options, but the buck cer­tainly doesn’t stop there. We have miles and miles to go in terms of mak­ing com­put­ing bet­ter. I [...]

A new phone: Terrible timing? ...

So my AT&T con­tract is up this month and I’m con­sid­er­ing all my options for my next PDA. My Black­Berry has been slowly dying on me, and I’ve not been happy with it. Android It’s prob­a­bly no sur­prise that I’m a big fan of Android—it is pro­duced by Google — so ide­ally I’d get an Android device [...]

Users Don’t Like Change ...

Facebook’s Users Don’t Like Change — ReadWriteWeb Users don’t like change, and as a prod­uct becomes more pop­u­lar, users will grow ever more resis­tant to change. The entire arti­cle (about Facebook’s con­tentious changes to their News Feed) dis­tills to that one sen­tence. It’s not a Face­book thing1, it’s a peo­ple thing. Really, I grow tired of all this [...]

Verizon Is Up to It Again ...

Ver­i­zon Cus­tomers — Just Say No! — ReadWriteWeb David Wein­berger, co-author of The Clue­train Man­i­festo and the more recent Every­thing is Mis­cel­la­neous received a let­ter today from Ver­i­zon. A “legal­is­tic pam­phlet” that informed him he has 45 days to opt out of ‘agree­ing’ to let Ver­i­zon share his per­sonal information. Wein­berger, unlike the major­ity of us who rarely read the [...]
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