April, 2009 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for April 2009

If you ask me, it doesn’t seem fair to call April 15th the gloomiest day of the year. Sure, a little later today I have to send the federal government more money than I’ll spend on clothes, food, and action figures this year, but once… Read More »

In this tutorial, you will learn how to do the following: Create and run a Navigation-Based Application from XCode Create and add a user interface, designed in Interface Builder, as a sub-view to a navigation based application Navigate to sub-views from a UITableView Allow sub-views to access application data Creating and… Read More »

 
 

SUBERNOVA is a brand-new online project management app for freelancers that helps to manage projects and clients, track time, and keep tabs on milestones and invoices. Unlike many of the project management apps we’ve seen, it’s built in Flash and the interface looks very sleek. After… Read More »

Two minutes and eighteen seconds. That’s how long it took me to set up the $99 Pogoplug hardware and activate it online. In just over two minutes I was able to open a web page and browse the contents of my 320GB external USB drive,… Read More »

While I had sworn off spending willy-nilly on new gizmos in 2009, it looks like the $99-dollar Pogoplug is going to test my self-control. Why? It turns any USB-enabled drive into a personal storage locker accessible over the Internet. The little device hooks up… Read More »

I’ve been having a lot of trouble streaming video on my MacBook Air recently. No matter which site I’m on, YouTube, Hulu, or Netflix, within a few minutes the video becomes choppy and unwatchable. Fed up with my computer’s inability to complete a task it should… Read More »

I’ll admit it: I’ve always been intimidated by servers and network storage devices. But Western Digital’s recently revamped My Book World Edition network hard drive has changed that. I spent several days testing out this drive, and I’ve come to realize that not only is it incredibly… Read More »

Since Kevin teased us all with the big box that showed up I arm-wrestled him into unboxing it for us all to enjoy. Virtual arm-wrestling is a new feature on the latest version of Skype, BTW. The box held the sleek, thin HP dv2 and Kevin… Read More »

As super-fast, Long Term Evolution wireless networks are deployed, some are questioning whether carriers even need 4G femtocells to boost coverage in the home. A post this week over at Unstrung adds fuel to the debate by pointing out that with femtocells, bandwidth… Read More »

I’ve been on somewhat of an OS X productivity tools kick lately, with posts on EventBox, Mindnode and Manhour. So I’m going to round out that journey with a quick peek at a useful little tool that was recently brought to my attention,… Read More »

With market bubbles, the truth about risks is simply too painful to confront, Denis Hayes said at the Ceres conference in San Francisco this morning. It’s no different with our current “ecological bubble,” he said, explaining that no one wants to confront the real risks… Read More »

One YouTube channel has tweaked the site’s format significantly to customize the video player and accept only comments made through Facebook Connect. The Sprite-sponsored channel Green-Eyed World is a video series (well, kind of — there’s only one episode so far) about a young… Read More »

More Must Reads

Wow. I always wondered what the “beyond” was in Bed, Bath and Beyond stores. Today I found out. MobileRead caught a press release from ECTACO that says you’ll find the company’s jetBook on store shelves at BB&B. I’m in the market for… Read More »

I don’t think I’m alone in visiting the Apple Cinema Display official product page every now and again and saving carts for later filled with LED goodness, even though I never intend to cash out because I can’t afford to. Apple’s displays are sexy,… Read More »

Sempra Generation, part of Sempra Energy, is expanding its solar photovoltaic power production in Nevada, teaming up, once again, with First Solar. The duo are adding on an additional 48 MW to their initial… Read More »

AT&T has unveiled a new service for family plan customers, FamilyMap, that has interesting implications. For $10/month customers can track the location of any two phones on their plan, for $15/month any five phones can be tracked. The tracking uses phone GPS for those that… Read More »

Does it actually surprise anyone that, according to a recent Wall Street Journal report, AT&T would be looking to extend their exclusivity contract with Apple to be the sole official U.S. iPhone carrier? If it does, I will begin to lose faith in the… Read More »

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