If you’re trying to decide between the hot new Nexus One vs. the iPhone 3Gs, here’s the skinny on what sets them apart. Both phones sport the aesthetic appeal of that sleek “wow” factor sheen, but there are a few differences you should know about which may make one a better fit for your needs than the other. Read more »
Dear reader,
In a discussion about possible posts with some colleagues, I realized that there were subjects that you might want to know that I either don’t want to or simply shouldn’t write about. I say shouldn’t because it’s not an area of expertise or more realistically – someone has already written about it better than I ever could. This post will be a mishmash of links to sites that do what I don’t. Hopefully, it will provide useful reading.
Tired of PowerPoint? Want a simple online alternative that beats Google Presentations? Checkout Prezi.com. I won’t write much more about it – you can see my demo presentation embeded below.
Good luck!!!
~ab
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Does your wireless ever drive you nuts? Having trouble understanding why you get perfect signal in the kitchen but not in the bedroom? I often promise that knowing a few geeky tricks will make your life easier. In this case, I’ll prove it to you. We’ll perform a few geeky moves and make your wireless woes disappear (or at lest help you understand them).
Sometimes a good tip is worth sharing, even if it’s not really large enough for a full post. Blog fashion police be damned, I’m writing it anyway.
SMS (also known as texting) stands for and has become more popular in the US than calling, a fact that was a surprisingly long time coming. Although we’ve finally caught on to the trend, messages are still rather expensive if you don’t have an unlimited plan or are sending/receiving while out of country. Well there is a small solution built write into your Gmail account that you might not have found yet. Here are the steps to send text messages straight from Google talk!
As I see it, the world doesn’t need any more keyboards. They are completely unavoidable these days… We have a keyboard on our computers, our phones, and even our iPods. In a way, this was inevitable – the computer keyboard grew from the typewriter, which in turn was an invention spawned from the printing press, which was spawned from Chinese woodblock techniques going back to the 9th century (or even further). I guess the added efficiency of reproducible characters is something we’ve been secretly exited about for a loooooooong time.
That doesn’t mean that we have chosen the best ways to go about it. What is pretty comical about the QWERTY keyboard that we use today is this – when the typewriter was invented just after the US civil war the design was changed.
“The type-bar system and the universal keyboard were the machine’s novelty, but the keys jammed easily. To solve the jamming problem, another business associate, James Densmore, suggested splitting up keys for letters commonly used together to slow down typing. This became today’s standard “QWERTY” keyboard.” – Wiki article
I guess for all you who can’t type (or can’t type well) this is a relief. You were never meant to!
Unfortunately, considering all of the different keyboards we see each day, I can think of three good reasons to type faster: Read more »
If it doesn’t start there automatically, my favorite line from the 1989 Batman is “Where does he get those wonderful toys?” (at 1:17 into this trailer). It’s just such a perfect description of how I find geek tools to be both empowering and entertaining.
A friend recently asked if I had any links to share and I thought I’d start the new year with a list of some of the blogs that I read. My hope is this provides that answer to your question about my toys (yes in this fantasy, I am Batman). Read more »
There is a purity to the idea of music as the primary goal for the iPod (the phrase “it used to be about the music” always reminds me of Almost Famous and this scene above). I’ve written about the feature craziness of the iPhone (here), but recently got an iPod Touch for Xmas, so I thought I would try an experiment. You see, the iPod touch really has only two features – it plays music and video, like any iPod these days, AND it has a WiFi connection, a feature that leads to all sorts of mischief. I wondered what I could get up to with only the WiFi connection. Would the device still be useful if it were not about the music at all?
The results were entertaining. I spent my vacation downloading apps and trying to get as much mileage out of the Touch as I could. In fact, I’ll give you a preview of the ending: it was a lot of fun. Let the games begin…
