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Review: iPad
Like many others last Saturday, I purchased the latest Apple product to hit the market, the iPad. I gave my first impressions at the beginning of the week, but I have used it fairly extensively over the past week and hardened my opinions of the device.
Rooting the Droid for Wifi Tethering
I knew there was a community out there that had hacked the Android Operating System in order to gain full access to the UNIX based OS, like enterprising hackers had jailbroken the iPhone and iPod Touch, but I had no interest in doing it to my own phone. There were no advantages to my Droid usage, until I saw the app to tether my Droid with Wifi.
The Tech of Avatar
This past weekend I was among the last to see Avatar in its IMAX glory. It was everything I had heard from others. Amazing use of 3D technology, brilliant use of color, and mediocre plot. (And anyone comparing it to Ferngully, Dances With Wolves, The Smurfs or Pocahontas is less original than the plot) The one thing that truly impressed me was the technology used by the human beings on Avatar, and I haven’t heard much discussed about that.
The App Store vs The Marketplace
With the iPhone’s triumphant creation of their app store and the stories of instant riches, developers lined up to begin building applications to join the ranks of the wealthy. Once it worked for Apple, other device manufacturers began announcing similar stores for their devices, from other phone manufacturers to Ford’s cars to the Amazon Kindle, each trying to expand the usefulness through the work of third party developers. Google and Apple take diametrically opposing stances on the running of their stores, but is one way better than the other?
Music, Audio and Radio Apps on the Droid
Since the most common comparison to the Droid is the iPhone, the question of music often comes up. The iPhone was built to be one part iPod, one part phone, so the natural usage of music on the iPhone made sense. With the competitive nature between the iPhone and the Droid, it only makes sense that the users of the Droid phone would want to be able to play music too.
Review: Motorola Droid
My recent venture into a new smartphone with the Blackberry Tour was a less than stellar experience, that temporarily led me back to my old Windows Mobile phone. With fortuitous timing, I was invited to the launch party for the new Motorola smartphones, which gave me ownership of a Motorola Droid phone.
Review: Verizon Blackberry Tour – Followup
As previously chronicled, I picked up a Blackberry Tour as my new cell phone of choice. Unfortunately, that decision was ultimately that decision was faulty and I have fallen back to my Samsung i760.
Review: Verizon Blackberry Tour
With my recent contract expiration, Verizon entitled me to a discount on a new phone. Since Windows Mobile 6.1 was continually locking up my Samsung i760, I decided it was time to finally move off the Windows Mobile platform. Had Verizon introduced an iPhone, that would have been my phone of choice, but I decided to take the Blackberry plunge to their “latest and greatest,” the Tour.
The Dependence, Frailty and Obsolescence of Technology
We have reached a point where our reliance on technology has become ubiquitous in modern life. We have reached a period where our technology progresses at blazing speeds and becomes less reliable at the same rates.
The Power of Ideas
There’s no such thing as a stupid idea, but it is possible to have a stupid implementation. Ideas themselves are never innately stupid, it’s a matter of what you do with them.
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