Imagine clicking on a popular Tumblr blog and seeing your own face stare back at you. If you’d shopped at one of two NY Apple stores recently, it could happen. According to the Huffington Post, artist Kyle McDonald is under investigation for Fraud and related activity in connection with computers.’” Now, Mr. McDonald is arguing […]
I’ve got a magic wand! Seriously though, what an awesome device to have. Forgive my exuberance, but it’s rare that I get to review something that’s not just good, but has honestly made my life easier. The ScanSnap S1100 is a small, easily stored, portable scanner. It’s about the size of a six-cell laptop battery, […]
I love HP’s WebOS. I love the smooth multitasking, the great apps, the PIM solutions, the card metaphor, and pretty much everything else. It’s easy for me to talk for hours about how great the platform is and how it deserves wider attention. I can pontificate about having actual access to my filesystem and being […]
There’s been a bit of an uptick in stories about hackers lately. Be it a massive bank falling prey to a basic security exploit, a major electronics vendor losing their gaming network, or someone trying to excuse his inappropriate online behavior on them, hackers are everywhere. This time the victim is the 163-year-old newspaper, News […]
If there’s one job that’s been tweaked time and again by new technologies, it’s the President of the United States. Now, the Obama Administration takes the townhall model of interacting with the public to Twitter with the first ever Twitter @Townhall. While the actual White House uses lots of archaic tech, past administrations have embraced […]
It’s official. If you’re one of the few but proud Windows Phone 7 users, you can now download and play the current game du jour, Angry Birds. Sure, this doesn’t seem like news but as I note in the headline, this now leaves only one mobile OS that doesn’t run Angry Birds. For goodness sake, […]
You may have missed it, but Microsoft has been running a beta of their own online office suite, called Office 365, for the last year. Yesterday, it officially lost the beta tag. There are some great features, but here’s the catch – unlike Google Docs, you pay for Office 365. To be honest, my first […]
As I’ve likely noted elsewhere and repeatedly, I’m a huge WebOS fan. No offense to any of the other great mobile operating systems out there, but HP’s mobile OS really comes through for me. Sadly, as a Sprint user, I’ve been trapped with a Revision A Palm Pre for some time now (technically, it’s a […]
I was honestly surprised to see Toshiba’s upcoming tablet, the Thrive, at Pepcom’s Digital Experience. To be honest, I’d forgotten it was announced. Now that I’ve handled it, I can’t get it out of my head. The Thrive (release date unknown) looks like a typical 10.1″ tablet. Running a mostly virgin copy of Android Honeycomb […]
I need to come right out and confess a bias for Thinkpads. My first laptop was a Thinkpad 380 and there are design elements on Thinkpads that I think are just wonderful. As a writer, I find the Trackpoint mouse solution perfect for never having to take my hands off the keys and they make […]
