After the honeymoon was over, and I started using the iPhone 3G S in earnest, I began to hear a high-pitched noise on my iPhone-recorded videos. At first I thought it was the environment, background noise, or just plain interference. However, once aware of the noise,… Read More »
Archive for June 2009
During the dot-com boom, so many undersea cable delivering the Internet traversed the bottom of the ocean between the U.S. and Europe that bandwidth prices plummeted and providers of submarine cables filed for bankruptcy. But those cables may soon no longer be enough to satisfy… Read More »
I use multiple computers throughout the workday and am always using Gmail. Sometimes, when I am in a hurry, I jump up from the computer and forget to log out of my Gmail. Usually I can just head back to the workstation to log… Read More »
There are now some pretty good smartphones available and I am in a very unique position to give my thoughts on them. I currently have phone and data plans on four different U.S. carriers and a smartphone to go along with each of those. Color me… Read More »
Web working is not for everybody. Those who do it tend to have traits and personalities that fit the web working life. For others, it means making sacrifices they don’t want to make. “I don’t really understand why people would like to work at home. It’s… Read More »
Gigle Semiconductor said today that consumer device maker Belkin is using its chip in an adapter that allows for home networking of up to 1Gbps using a home’s power line infrastructure. Such speeds are a huge boost for power line networking. A consumer buys… Read More »
For iPhone users, wading through a sea of fitness and weight-loss applications can be confusing and time-consuming — and, much like adhering to the latest diet craze, it’s often hard to stick with using the application once you download it. Los Angeles-based startup Global… Read More »
Well, it isn’t a nail-biting conclusion driving an extra day of play in this year’s U.S. Open — it’s mother nature, as rain plagued the golf tournament this weekend. But it’s on these unexpected extra days of play that online video gets to shine. Last year’s… Read More »
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Apple CEO Steve Jobs recently underwent a liver transplant. Jobs, who has been on a leave of absence from the company since January, reportedly had the transplant about two months ago in an undisclosed hospital in Tennessee. As the… Read More »
Data centers already consumed more electricity than the country of Iran in 2005, and are set to increase electricity use by another 76 percent by 2010. And the biggest culprit of that electricity — cooling — sucks up between 40 percent and 60 percent… Read More »
Online video viewing is limited by the fact that browsers don’t natively support it, which forces would-be viewers to download proprietary plug-ins like Flash and Silverlight. Though it’s not like we users are twiddling our thumbs waiting for video support; at this point, nearly all of… Read More »
True video connoisseurs are not likely to swap a dedicated video camera for a smartphone. But today’s phones are beefing up their video recording features, hoping to win over shoppers contemplating a low-cost video camera like the Flip or the Zodak Zx1. Thinking of making the plunge… Read More »
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