Ray Kurzweil has joined the reader fray and his is software only. So the defection from dedicated readers begins! A hope for the Apple device that absolutely positively be announced the 27th (unless it is not): a screen that switches between a reflective, low-power mode similar to the Kindle and a higher-power backlit mode for [...]
Wow, have we reached a fever pitch with the Apple-New-Product speculation, or what? Even the New York Times has joined the fray. This requires me to chime in! Everyone thinks they need to correctly guess some killer detail of Apple’s kindle-plus-color-minus-keyboard game-changer, or whatever it happens to be. Personally, I hope it is an iPencil, [...]
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
I’ve been using an EyeTV device as a PVR for a while, and one of the features I felt was missing was the ability to stream the recordings. After finding a few posts that showed how to accomplish this, I was struck by how primitive these were. So I set about making things a little [...]
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
It being the holiday season, and being at Target, we decided to drop $30 on a Lego set, for no reason other than the laser beams attached to their heads. I had no idea Lego had such sense of irony, never mind the inclination to avoid a possible movie tie-in. I built out the kit [...]
A while back we bought a Palm TX for Jacquie to use. It didn’t quite meet her business trip needs, so it had been languishing in a drawer for a while. Two things happened to make me dust it off: I read a book on time management whose system required I carry an organizer I [...]
Monday, December 31, 2007
My sweet wife has procured for me for my birthday — today for you ungrateful laggards — a set of Klipsch speakers. They sound dynamite (to my untrained ear) and have an iPod dock built in. I’ve elected to set them up in the kitchen, so we can listen to music while we cook. Which [...]
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