The 21st century has seen the notebook revolution take hold. It seems like the whole world was waiting for the technology to get powerful and inexpensive enough that portable computers could be slim, light, and robust. No college or school experience these days is complete without one, even to the point that the famous OLPC [...]
With so many mobile devices on the market, you might wonder “Which one’s right for me?” That’s up to you, of course, but we’ve noticed that you can draw a one-to-one correlation between a person’s careers and hobbies and the kind of mobile device they’ll like best. Take a look-see over our list and maybe [...]
Only a few years ago, gaming on mobiles was the domain of Tetris and Bust-A-Move, and that was about it. Some solitaire and Mahjohng in there too – nothing to get excited about. But recently the smartphone and PDA platforms have gotten powerful enough to play games with a little more meat on them. And [...]
Around the office, we call it “low-budget entertainment”. Relieving the mind-mulching tedium of office work by playing with something. It can be low-tech, too. You can make a rubber-band and paper-clip boxing ring on top of an empty ink-cartridge box, fold two orgami men from notepad paper, and set them up inside the ring for [...]
Once upon a time, when cavemen squatted in caves roasting haunches of wallaby and dinosaurs roamed the earth, computers were these big, boxy things that sat on desks and weighed something like 50 pounds. They needed a monitor the size of a refrigerator, and the only thing they could do was display text and draw [...]
We’re of course talking about Google Android! Not to be confused with whimsical characters such as ‘Data’ from ‘Star Trek the Next Generation’, Google Android is the new open source operating system and software platform for mobile phones. Google has enjoyed the kind of celebrity and popularity across the World Wide Web that makes people [...]
There probably isn’t a mobile device user alive who hasn’t at least visited a Google search page in their time. Google is famous for search and a number of their products, including Google maps, GMail, and their new Chrome web browser get almost unlimited buzz around the blog rings. But it’s quite interesting to discover [...]
Frequently, you’ll see a tech site – just like this one – tout a feature of some smartphone, PDA, tablet, or other mobile device by talking about what’s under the hood. “It runs Java.” or “It’s based on Webkit.” or “It’s developed using the Python standard library.” And at least some of you are out [...]
In the world of technology, biometric identification has been slowly creeping from the world fo science fiction to fact. On the most far-fetched front, we have iris scanners, predicted by movies such as “Minority Report”. On the less fantastic front, voice recognition systems have become a more common technology, though still rare because we’re still [...]
If the title of this article is something that’s on your mind, you’re not alone. As a mobile device user, you repeatedly have the subject of encryption coming up in discussions of security on everything from laptops to smartphones. But what is it, how does it work, and why does it make our brains fuzzy? [...]
