We start with Moore’s Law, which states (roughly) that the number of transistors which can be placed on an integrated circuit doubles every two years. In other words, electronics component density will allow computers to double their efficiency to size ratio every two years. This means that devices can keep getting smaller, and that devices [...]
Once upon the 20th century, we had the phreakers. Phreakers were phone hackers; they’d use various equipment and techniques to rig the public phone system, getting free calls, snooping on private calls, even running their own private network, and generally abusing the telephone system for naughty stuff. Then along came the computer age proper, and [...]
Now that “cloud” computing is here, everybody is heaving a sigh of relief that they don’t have to buy, download, or install as much software. We’ll always need some, but isn’t it becoming a nice bonus that you can offload a lot of tasks to the platform of the Internet itself, and use them just [...]
“The web as a platform”. That’s the mantra you’ve been hearing a lot about, applied to cloud computing. The idea behind cloud computing is basically to take all the computer that you have in front of you and condense it down to an operating system running a web browser, with everything else coming through the [...]
With Australian Internet users up in arms about the prospect of mandatory Internet filtering by the government, we thought this would be a timely subject. The purpose of this article is to show what Internet filtering is, and also why it isn’t the best solution to the problem of illegal content online. It is [...]
- If you highlight the date and time in the calendar before you start typing, it will automatically create an appointment with that entry in your calendar. – If you have images hosted at sites like Photobucket, you can paste them directly into forum text boxes by using the “IMG Code” shown under the image [...]
Samsung has defined the market for ultra-mobile PCs, with it’s kinship with Microsoft’s Origami project, which is not at all to be confused with the art of paper-folding. Other mobile computer makers might make them smaller or shinier, but Samsung was first to market and shows the most innovation. And this case is one of [...]
Hi, my name is Nicholas Rayner and the guys at Gadget Access have given me a chance to guest blog about my experiences with the HP 2730p Elitebook Tablet PC. I’ve now had the HP 2730p for nearly 2 months now and have had a good chance to experiment with it by upgrading the hardware, [...]
The big buzz in mobile phones this year can be summed up in two words: “iPhone killer”. Who’s going to come up with one? Well, if HTC didn’t just fulfill the prophecy, it won’t be for lack of trying. Here’s one area where they’re ahead already: video calling. That’s right, a video camera phone, albeit [...]
Firstly, I’d like to say that I love any hardware company brave enough to send out sample product to Gadget-Geeks to inpire their attention, and in rare cases, adoration. Given that GadgetAccess is primarily a Windows Mobility Blog, they were indeed braver than most Blackberry-related companies given that we have a single token Blackberry amongst [...]
