Category Archives: Technology
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 the ability to charge [...]
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 next.
However, I’m [...]
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 resistance to change. [...]
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 associated paraphernalia [...]
Silent Running: Abandoned ...