OLED TV's Will Make Your LCD's and Plasmas Look Like Poo
OLED has: brighter colors sharper contrast much thinner weighs less more energy efficient faster video relay (no blur like LCD & Plasma) But here is why you don't want one today: expensive small viewing size (only 11" diagonal) limited life span (sort of, 30,000 hours which is roughly 10 years of viewing it 8 hours a day) It seems at this point that OLED will be the standard, but it isn't ready for the spot light just yet. Read more [...]
Calibrate Your Mac Battery
Plug in the power adapter and fully charge your PowerBook's battery until the light ring or LED on the power adapter plug changes to green and the onscreen meter in the menu bar indicates that the battery is fully charged. Read more [...]
iPod Touch, Ten Million Apple Geeks Collectively Groan
After years of a rumored touchscreen iPod Apple finally unveiled the iPod Touch. Not big enough for me....I'll be going with the 160gb ipod classic For the first time in my Apple life I am actually angry with an announcement.... Read more [...]
Waiting for iPhone Version 2.0
In fact, that alone is a deal breaker for me even if people are able to play old Nintendo and arcade games on their iPhones and even if people are hacking them to add new useful features. So if I do get an iPhone it will be a second generation iPhone (hopefully without crappy AT&T service... Read more [...]
US Government's Slippery Slope Into Our Lives Doesn't Excuse China or the US Companies that Help China
The TechDirt article gets all antsy about folks in congress not liking US companies helping China's evil government when we are doing essentially the same thing here in the US, but instead of saying that it is time to check our own policies and stop US companies from doing inhuman things the author simple concludes that: ...unless we're willing to look at the same issues in the US, it seems rather hypocritical to complain about US firms supplying the technology for China to do something quite similar to what we're doing at home. Read more [...]
Number One Reason for Net Neutrality
A while back I emailed my representatives and told them what I think of net neutrality. I got back some silly response kindly saying that I was wrong and that net neutrality was bad for business and hurts innovation etc etc. Read more [...]
Google's Emotionless Blogspot Robots Kill Google's Blog
A friend of mine recently told me about some troubles he had when Blogspot's spam detection system decided that his blog was a sblog (spam blog). What makes things worse is that folks can't easily backup a blogspot blog, though they do offer a complicated ten step procedure to save your blog. Read more [...]
Anyone Know How Orbitz Decides on Airplane Ticket Prices
Using Safari (browser on left in image below) I wasn't given the same price for what appears to be the same ticket found in Firefox (browser on right in image below). Not only were the prices different, but I wasn't even given the same options of airlines and configurations. Read more [...]
