How not to sell software
Friday, March 18th, 2011I am always receiving calls from various vendors, publishers and manufactures trying to get me to hawk their wares. Typically these are positive, even enjoyable experiences if a waste of time.
Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Western Digital acquires Hitachi
Monday, March 7th, 2011As an opinionated IT professional I find the most recent consolidation of the hard disk sector rather disconcerting. My current preferences in drives run to Hitachi and Seagate. I tend to avoid Western Digital due to the high failure rates I’ve experienced even with their enterprise/raid specific hard drives and have so far replaced [...]
Jawbone ICON
Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010So my Jabra BT8040 is aging and has most certainly earned it’s keep. But the bud is starting to loosen and cause problems so tonight I grabbed a Jawbone ICON “The Hero” on the way home. The choice was hard and my choice was almost a Jabra BT530 which is essentially the update from the [...]
GoogleTV Repercussions for non-GoogleTV users.
Wednesday, November 10th, 2010So CBS and a few others have made the stupid decision to block their stuff from users of Google TV. Thing is, Google TV is basically a Linux appliance running the Chrome browser and Flash player. Not exactly a lot of differentiation from my primary Mandriva desktop which CBS blocks me from watching their shows [...]
Mobile Device Input
Monday, November 1st, 2010I’m not sold that the 8pen input is the wave of the future but it is certainly an interesting method and I’ll at least give it a try.
Goodbye Mandriva?
Monday, October 25th, 2010Well 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, 2010Have 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 [...]
Google TV
Thursday, October 7th, 2010I 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 [...]
Android 2.2 aka Froyo for the DROID X
Friday, September 24th, 2010Seems Verizon has released 2.2 for the DROID X. Took a whole 15 minutes to make the update. Now to see if it makes a difference other than having to dance around a new VZ Navigator icon in my apps list…
DROID X
Friday, September 10th, 2010So far I love the Droid X. The screen is huge, bright and crisp. Coming off Windows Mobile phones “responsive” simply hasn’t been in my lexicon where smart phones are concerned but the Droid X is very fast and highly responsive. It isn’t quite as intuitive as the iPhone but it also doesn’t lag by [...]
