Case mods…game over, this guy won
There is a sub-class of computer enthusiasts who build extreme gaming rigs. They do crazy things like refrigeration for cooling, and spend thousands of dollars to squeeze an extra 5%…
Posts about hardware, software, or the tech industry itself
iPhone battery- iPod part 2
Apple learned a great deal from the battery complaints that users had about the early iPods. First, instead of just making it challenging to get at the battery in the iPhone,…
Kitten editorializing…
I've been working a lot lately, scrambling to catch up with some application programming work. Part of this is a result of being behind the technological curve in terms of…
Windows Live Writer Beta 2
I mentioned some months ago that I was experimenting with Windows Live Writer. This is an off-line blog editor, somewhat like Ecto or Qumana. I've been quietly using the Beta…
iLiad Update v2.10 solves CF memory card problem
I mentioned in my review of the iLiad a week or so ago that I was experiencing some problems with the CF memory card I bought not being consistently recognized. …
iLiad mini-Review
Electronic books, or “e-books”, are coming. Some would say they are already here, with several major releases such as the Sony Reader and iRex iLiad over the last year or so.
What is the big deal? Haven’t we been able to read books on computers or electronic devices for years? Yes, but try reading pages upon pages of text on a glowing computer display for hours and hours: your eyes will suffer. LCD displays without backlighting have viewability and resolution limitations. Most of the attempts at electronic books until the last year or so have lacked a great deal of the convenience and eye-friendly readability of the paper alternative. That is, until the development of e-Ink.
E-Ink or “electronic paper” is a totally different kind of display technology that is far more like the paper it is attempting to replace than anything that has come before. I’ve been watching the various e-Ink based devices for some time now, and made the leap a couple of weeks ago: I ordered an iRex iLiad. I’ve had it for just over a week now.
So what is it like? Is it worth the price I paid? Read on…
i-Phone: second coming of Jesus?
All the cool people in the world use Macintoshes. If you use something other than a Macintosh you are, by definition, not cool. It goes without saying that the only real…
Sony DVD copy protection prevents replay in some Sony DVD players…
Sony just can't seem to stop screwing their customers with various forms of DRM. First there was the Sony CD rootkit debacle (insert a Sony CD into your PC and get…
Thinking again about an RSS feed reader…
I have toyed periodically with various ways of monitoring RSS feeds and bringing them to my desktop. Nothing I've used has felt quite "right", and like PDAs I've ultimately ended…
File sharing: a terrorist plot, and think of the Children!
I believe in the importance of copyright. I also firmly believe in "fair use": that is, if I pay for the right to use your content, I have the right…