So just a little over a year ago my family moved into our new home and made the decision that we wouldn’t be shelling out the cash for a cable subscription anymore. I gave a brief rundown of my intentions on this blog at the time and I’ll confess right off the bat that almost none of that happened. I am however still without cable and have rarely missed it so I guess that’s a modicum of success. I’m going to do an update on what I’ve been doing and where I hope to go with it in 2012. Read More…
There were plenty of things that got my attention at CES this year ($250 Tegra 3 tablet?), but for a single device that I could work into my existing setup I don’t think anything was as impressive as this 55-inch OLED TV from Samsung. It looked like you could walk right into it. I can’t wait to own one…in about 4 years.
I managed to parlay my mick luck into a pair of these MEE Electronics M11P+ headphones a few weeks ago via an Android Spin contest and having now used them for about a month I thought I’d do a review for anyone that might be in the market for a new set of budget friendly in-ear headphones. Read More…
I’m preparing to move into a new house in exactly one week and I’ve made the decision to try to drop the cable habit in the process. I still have to deal with the cable company for my internet needs, Charter Communications in my neck of the woods, but I’ll cut about 2/3 of my bill by forgoing a cable package.
In small part this is a monthly cost saving venture, but in reality it will take at least a year for me to see the net gain from this venture as I am going to have to make quite a few purchases to make it happen. I’m not honestly convinced that it is time for most people to be trying this yet, but as I have a wife, a two-year-old, a couple jobs, and now hopefully this blog again I don’t really have that much time to watch TV anyway.
I’m still in the planning phases of this project, but I thought I’d kick it off with a general outline of what I’m thinking of including and see if I got any feedback before commencing with my scheme. Read More…
It’s that time of year again; students have from now until September 7th to pick up a Mac under educational pricing and get a free 8GB iPod Touch as part of the deal.
As Apple famously does not offer big sales on their product line this is about it in terms of deals on current hardware and is probably the best time to buy if you are in the market for a new Mac anyway. Even if you don’t want the Touch they can fetch around $150 on Ebay and help further defer the cost of your new iMac or Macbook. Read More…
The videos really do the talking here, but Steve Jobs has thrown down the gauntlet against Flash and indicated that it essentially makes for a broken experience on a mobile device. The first video below is of Flash 10.1 running on a Nexus One and the second is HTML 5 running on an iPad.
Which looks like a broken experience to you?
*post image courtesy of androidphonegeek
I recently wrote a piece over on Android and Me about iVdopia, a mobile advertising platform which brought pre-app and in-app video advertising to the iPhone last year, and became available to Android developers recently. The reader response to the idea of actual commercials on their mobile devices was overwhelmingly negative, mirroring my own feelings on the matter, and I think developers and advertisers would be wise to look at other options. Read More…
To anyone that follows the blog regularly I’m sure you are calling shenanigans on my referring to this as “Week 3″ of my learning to program process as it has been a few weeks since I last posted on it. Ironically it is my interest in Android that slowed my progress on this project as I took a job as a contributor to Android and Me and it has taken me a little while to adjust to the added workload. Anyway, I’m back at it this week and I will definitely try harder to stay on track this time as I would love to be able to contribute something to the Android Market this year. Read More…
This morning I received a lengthy rebuttal to one of my earlier iPad posts and as I ended up voicing my opinion on many of the major iPad debates while responding to it I decided that I would instead turn my response into a post. So thanks to reader Louis Wheeler for his well considered comments and here are my answers. Read More…
I’m a happy Android user at present, so today’s big unveil of Windows Phone 7 Series (WP7S?) is exciting to me mainly if it serves to push forward the rest of the mobile market (and from the sound of things it should do just that). But what peaks my interest more about this release is that a division within Microsoft managed to completely recode and reimagine from the ground up a significant OS within the Windows ecosystem without any significant information leaks prior to its announcement.
