On occasion, I give presentations both in my office and traveling. I had considered buying a projector to use with my laptop, but put it off because most of the ones I had seen were bulky and expensive. I was thrilled when I came across the Pocket Projector for only $399. It is simple [...]
Every time we check lately, there’s another glowing review of an HTC Touch mobile device online. This Engadget story is one of the latest, linking to a German review calling the HTC Touch HD an “iPhone killer”. The praise mentions features including the TouchFLO 3D interface, the Opera web browser, and the large display. We’re [...]
As fast as technology moves, it’s always amazing when you reflect that the main medium hasn’t changed much. We started with IRC and Usenet and have come all the way to Twitter and SMS, and our primary means of communication is still sending each other little strings of text. Well, games can be played in [...]
We’re going to go out on a limb here and say that Photoshop is probably the best-known graphics editing program out there. But it’s a top-dollar item. And really, it isn’t the best solution for everybody, with its steep learning curve. There’s plenty of competitors to Adobe’s flagship product out there, and some of them [...]
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 [...]
It’s not the manufacturers that drive the computer/tech industry any more. As soon as something new comes out, the techies are hacking away, trying to see just what they can make it do. I saw an article when the first iPods were rolling out about someone who made a mount out of RTV Rubber for [...]
Mobile gaming has taken off in recent years, getting more and more sophisticated. Games that used to be the exclusive domain of the console and desktop platforms have made their way onto mobiles, and the graphics get richer and more beautiful every year. For the adventure and role-playing gaming crowd, sometimes they ask for something [...]
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 [...]
For our American friends across the ditch, as well as various other parts of the world, Halloween is coming up. So what better time to examine the spooky remains of former technology greats, whose limbs are still twitching when we thought we’d shotgunned them to the ground? Here’s a list of technologies that we could [...]
