Technology

Over the years most people who've run a home wireless network have run through a number of routers.  These devices sell for very cheap and are often replaced when they start working poorly.  I've got 3 or 4 of them sitting in my basement in what most people call my own personal e-waste dump.  (I…

So I hit the CTIA (wireless show) last week and did an interview with Target Marketing magazine about mobile marketing trends.  It’s a good publication you’ve probably never heard of, so I suggest you add their RSS feeds to your list.

Recently my brother in law asked me an important question: Need some advice – we are planning to buy some electronic equipment with the baby – a new picture camera and video (dvd) recorder.  We were wondering if you had any recommendations.  Sameena heard that any of the SLR cameras are good because they don’t…

..the maintenance is a killer.  Every piece of technology I own requires some amount of sysadmin time.  It’s not that I’m not a competent sysadmin, it’s that there isn’t time to deal with it all and do it well. Case in point: My Chef’n pepper grinder and Pakistani diaries entries.  The photo links for those…

Recently Yahoo! released a set of AJAX user interface components to allow people to make their applications look snazzy and be more useful.  One of the most intriguing to me was the slider.  Sliders are typically the property of desktop applications.  They provide the ability for the users to filter and narrow without suffering the…

It’s a handheld computer, bigger than a Treo, smaller than a traditional tablet, much like the OQO you’ve seen me talk about before.  It’ll be a  killer because unlike the PSP, it runs Windows, which means it’s a platform, not a black box. However unlike the PSP, it’s not going to primarily be a game…