Wired posted quite the interesting article about 2 men who, for six months snuck into the Apple Headquarters to write a script. 12 hours per day, 7 days a week, for 6 months, Ron Avitzur snuck into his former employer’s offices to write a… Read More »
Archive for December 2004
SBSH, the producers of the great Pocket PC program Pocket Breeze, have just released an enhanced calendar program for Windows Mobile based Smartphones. Papyrus looks really nice and the screenshots show it to be a useful calendar replacement. The release is a public beta so… Read More »
No really! Apparently, a prank story on a spanish language website, Canal PDA, indicated that Apple was going to set up its own mobile carrier business. Low and behold, like everything that is Apple related, the news spread across the blogs, and even major Mac… Read More »
Anyone who has read my published stuff for any length of time at all knows I am extremely passionate about mobile technology. I have been trying, using and lugging mobile devices around for more… Read More »
Audible announced today they are now supporting the Creative MuVo TX, MuVo TX FM, MuVo Micro, and MuVo Slim portable digital audio players. Owners of the Creative audio players can go to the Audible web site and download a firmware upgrade for the MuVo… Read More »
In a broadband enabled life, no piece of software is as crucial as a database – from our cell phone records, our blog entries, our address books, and of course all the information we need to store about our music collections, digital downloads and emails. In… Read More »
Tablet PCs are perfect for viewing electronic magazines and I am always on the lookout for good alternatives for reading material. I stumbled upon Home Computer Magazine completely by accident and I have to recommend it as a good read. The magazine is already… Read More »
Wall Street Journal’s Jesse Drucker has been all over the trend of wifi-enabling cities, and has done some seriously good reporting. Today Drucker talks about growing number of cities which are planning to roll out their own WiFi Clouds, including San Francisco, Cleveland, LA, Milwaukee… Read More »
James Enck has posted a 5MB torrent file to Prodigem, shot on his SPV C500, and he calls this A Luddite idiot’s testimonial on Prodigem. So why should we be paying attention? Enck explains: “Dozens of cities and towns are rolling out Wi-Fi as a… Read More »
Kaplan has long been known as the authority when it comes to preparing college-bound kids for the dreaded SAT/ACT tests. Recently they announced with Handmark the availability of Kaplan Mobile SAT/PSAT-ACT 2005. The program contains over 1200 questions and tips to help prepare for these… Read More »
I get a lot of email from people wanting the ability to take notes that can be captured digitally into a computer. These requests are mostly from students who can see the benefits of a… Read More »
Seagate has always been associated with hard drives as one of the longest running manufacturers in the business. They have a 5 GB portable drive called the Pocket Drive that is perfect for… Read More »