I haven’t been able to see the personal benefits of using an air mouse. Those are the wireless mice that move the cursor around the screen when you wave the mouse around in the air. I’m sure there are folks who find the air mouse to … Read More »
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http://blip.tv/play/AYGM3GKF_ik There aren’t many times where an exciting new web technology comes to handheld devices before it hits the traditional desktops and notebooks, but this is one of those times. Over at NewTeeVee, Liz shows off a video that demonstrates Apple’s HTTP adaptive video streaming. … Read More »
Peter Rojas and Ryan Block, both former bigshots at Engadget and friends of ours, piqued a lot of interest when a while back they joined up and promised a new venture for the gadget lover crowd. Gdgt would be unlike any other gadget site, … Read More »
It’s nearly Tour de France time, and you know what that means: I’ll be working from the couch in front of the television for the next month, starting on July 4. Perhaps the biggest pre-tour news local to me is yesterday’s announcement that
I took my Nike+ sensor out for another run this morning and I clearly need to calibrate it. While I’d like to think that I ran 4.04 miles at a 7:20 pace, that sounds a bit fast for an easy run. A quick Google Map … Read More »
The OLPC is certainly an innovative computer for kids that is comprised of nice hardware coupled with special software to make it easy for children to operate. No doubt some parents could benefit from the special operating environment of the OLPC without having to buy the … Read More »
Nuance is now offering TALKS&ZOOMS v4 for Symbian S60 handsets. The software is geared for blind or visually impaired mobile phone owners. Using Nuance’s text-to-speech technology, TALKS&ZOOMS can read aloud contact info, CallerID data, text messages, help files, web pages and other information. The … Read More »
HP scientific and financial calculators have been the tools of choice for many in the business world for decades. Many of us have fond memories of the different HP calculators we have used over the years and often lament their passing. HP realizes this and as … Read More »
http://www.youtube.com/v/m4Q9MJdT5Ds&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1 Good news if you’ve signed up for a Google Voice invite. The company announced today that those invitations are now starting to trickle out to new users. Didn’t sign up for an invite yet? No worries, but you should run, not walk, to the … Read More »
The difference between the screens on the newest iPhone version and the prior one is like night and day. The glass screen of iPhone 3GS is less receptive to fingerprints and that smartphone, smudgy buildup. On my old iPhone, I felt like the witness in “My … Read More »
Yes, I’m in a video “frame” of mind this week. ;) Here’s another quickie to show off a fun and useful utility called Freeze. Phoenix Technologies created Freeze and it normally sells for $14.99. The Phoenix folks tell me there’s an intro price of $9.99 … Read More »
Hands-free communications is becoming more important these days. Many places are creating, or have already passed, hands-free laws that make it illegal to hold the phone and talk while driving. BlackBerry recently introduced a Bluetooth speakerphone solution to compete with the many third-party options on … Read More »
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