A Purdue University researcher is working on an oven that can deep fry foods without an oil fryer.
Feb
15
Damaged iFrog iPhone Case
That chip in the case of my iFrog case I bought at the AT&T store appeared not to long after getting the case. The same thing happened to my wife’s case. I’m very disappointed in the quality.
I brought a Casecrown case, same color, and so far I’ve been happy with it. I won’t be buying from iFrog again.
Just FYI.
Feb
09
First Reaction to Google Buzz
My first reaction to Google Buzz:
Ok, so it integrates with Gmail. Did it ever occur to anyone at Google that it might just expose a lot of e-mail addresses to spammers? And that not everyone you follow on places like Twitter (or that want to follow you) on Twitter are people that you want to have your e-mail?
Or that people that you MUST exchange e-mail with aren’t necessarily people you want snooping your social network?
Jan
13
First Look at Star Trek Online
IGN has a review of the new Star Trek MMO. It’s PC only.
Jan
12
Fake Freeway Sign Turns Into a Real Freeway Sign
Sometimes someone trying to do some good on the freeway actually succeeds.
Jan
04
DirecTV and TiVo
The Consumerist is reporting that DirecTV is about to hike prices.
The thing I’m hoping for? That DirecTV and TiVo will finally announced availability of their new DVR at CES this week.
Oh, and companies – Quit it with the upper and lowercase in your company names. It’s annoying.
Dec
07
Google Goggles – Visual Search
Have an Android phone?
Check out Google Goggles. Take a picture of something, and it’ll search it for you.
I have to wonder – are the images being uploaded to the server? If so, are they geotagged, to improved Google’s database?
Nov
11
Google Go
Google introduced a new programming language: Go
It’s a merging of Python and C++. Read more about it at GoLang.org
Nov
03
Microsoft Courier Tablet
Gizmodo has a story about a new tablet that Microsoft is working on.
As far as the software goes, that at least looks interesting, but I really not sure of that hardware.
Between the two screens that will touch each other when the thing closes, the middle bar that looks like it’ll get in the way, and the pen interface that will make you write out URLS… I’m not sure I’m sold.
One would hope that they create a whole new OS for this thing, and won’t rely on Windows Anything for the programming side. There’s just too much baggage there, and with a completely new device they have a chance to break away.
Do I think they’ll do that? Nope. I can hope though.
Oct
27
The “Impending Apple Slate”
Bill Keller of the NY Times mentions, “the impending Apple Slate” in this video, after about the 8:15 mark
Bill Keller speaks to the digital group at The New York Times from Nieman Journalism Lab on Vimeo.