31 May
I took this screen shot from one of the youtube demos posted by Google demoing the Google Android OS.
A couple of take awys I thought were important:
The OS allows both multi touch input and traditional navigation using keyboards and rollerballs (like the blackberry).
The OS has many of the features the iPhone introduced to us and [...]
24 May
A new Google Reader AIR application emerged today:
This application provides the traditional river of news approach to RSS reading in a very cool desktop package.
However, in a world of short timeframes and quick news consumptions would you not rather have this kind of view into your RSS news feeds:
Here you see a number of RSS [...]
23 May
Turns out the iPhone passcode is not very secure at all. Jonathan Zdziarski notes:
As discovered by Jonathan Zdziarski, who has established himself as something of an iPhone forensics expert, the iPhone’s passcode mechanism should leave you feeling neither smug nor secure, and represents little more than a mild deterrent for would-be viewers of your private [...]
22 May
Have you seen these new renderings of the XO2? Again it appears that the iPhone continues to create a revolution in multi-touch devices and screen based input paradigms. This is a natural progression for the XO laptop program. Why? Well, the XO program is targeted to multiple countries, and I can imagine it is costly [...]
22 May
I challenged myself a few weeks back to completely switch my RSS reading habits over to the Acrylic Times RSS reader. I have noted in a couple of my previous posts here and here that I had found some some immediate benefits to the amount of time I was spending with RSS feeds.
I am [...]
22 May
This is HUGE news. For the organizations who have not yet rolled out Office 2009 to their companies this is a HUGE deal. I think this is a game changer because it means you could have a dual strategy of rolling out free star office to the vast majority of the enterprise who are just [...]
15 May
Does it annoy any other Apple TV owners that there isn’t some kind of alert when something you add a favorites list (podcast, or TV show) has a new entry. I swear it is like Christmas each time I bust open the PBS frontline favorite I have and find out a new show has been [...]
11 May
Loved this quote from the NYT today.
Mass transit systems around the country are seeing standing-room-only crowds on bus lines where seats were once easy to come by. Parking lots at many bus and light rail stations are suddenly overflowing, with commuters in some towns risking a ticket or tow by parking [...]
9 May
One week later we have seen two major updates to the new Times RSS browser from Acrylic software. I was reading through the comments on Acrylic’s post about having a number of issues during the initial launch. Lots of folks commenting on crashes and lost data.
I am happy to report that as of version 1.0.3 [...]
