Archive for October, 2010

Goodbye Mandriva?

Monday, October 25th, 2010

Well maybe not just yet but it has now forked due to massive layoffs of developers. The new fork Mageia Linux appears to retain the core developers so I’m watching it as well as Unity Linux with some hope that my long time favorite Linux distro doesn’t go the way of so many others. It [...]

Synchronization and Phone Manager for Android

Thursday, October 21st, 2010

Have I mentioned lately that I love my DROID X? Naturally there are small things partly due to the youth of the OS and one has been a desktop sync… Because I have most of my info out on Google’s apps this hasn’t been a big issue for me but when I read about Android [...]

Let the festivities begin!

Friday, October 8th, 2010

Today is the official first day of the fall Covered Bridge Festival in Park County Indiana and the traffic proved it this morning. Yard and garage sales pop up all along the routes to Park County and on this first day every sale had at least a dozen cars on the shoulder and that was [...]

Three dozen fall ill at Obama rally

Thursday, October 7th, 2010

Yeah well listening to him has that effect on me, too.

Google TV

Thursday, October 7th, 2010

I was actually a bit excited in the run up to Logitech’s release of Revue, the first appliance for GoogleTV. What I expected was an Android type device that would replace the tower PC I’m currently using and at a cost on par with Apple’s $99 AppleTV appliance. I’d be able to control it from [...]


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