So I was in my local dollar store the other day and I happened across this cheap junky book light. I’ve never bought a book light before because I’m too cheap, so this one appealed to me. And to be honest, I know I’m going to lose it, break it, or the batteries will run [...]
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Check out my new trophy
February 18th, 2011 · 2 Comments · blog maintenance
You might recall from last month that I wrote a post about Freescale and their list of “Smart Mobile Device Pundits”. This is a list of the most popular gadget bloggers, journalists, and analysts, and it includes David Pogue, Brad Linder, Darren Murph, and many others. I’m on the list, and yesterday I got a [...]
Check out Microsoft’s first gaming console
February 13th, 2011 · 1 Comment · hardware news
A friend tweeted a Wikipedia link to me last night, and he managed to do something unusual: he showed me a gadget I’d never even heard of before. The XBox wasn’t the first MS gaming console. Between 1983 and 1995 MS and their hardware partners sold the MSX, a keyboard style home computer/ gaming console.
Check out how News Corp blew $3m on The Daily’s Super Bowl Ad
February 6th, 2011 · 1 Comment · software news, video
The Super Bowl ad for The Daily just showed up on Youtube, and I have to say that the ad is as awe inspiring as the digital newspaper itself.Snide comments aside, I think we have the winner for “Most Ambivalent Super Bowl Ad”. It’s by no means the worst ad but it is the least [...]
Check out my new mobile site
February 6th, 2011 · 8 Comments · blog maintenance
Earlier today I helped someone set up a mobile version of their website and that finally spurred me to launch a mobile site for this blog. (WordPress makes this really easy, in case you were wondering.) Second Update: Someone showed me a better way to do it, so I’ve killed the mobile domain. Your mobile [...]
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