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Surprise, its a Chrome Notebook…
11, Feb 2011I came home Tuesday to find a surprise waiting next to my door. There was a generic UPS package delivered and I could not figure out what I had ordered. I certainly wasn’t waiting or expecting a package. I opened up the box to find another generic box inside, still wondering, “What is this?” in [...]
What are your mobile apps telling about you?
20, Dec 2010I found a very interesting article today linked from the Wall Street Journal. The Journal did a set of tests on popular iPhone and Android apps to find out what personal information is being collected and sent back to the developer or third party companies about you, sometimes without your consent. The info-graphic is pretty [...]
Followup on IPTV; plus I bought a Mac Mini
10, Sep 2010Ok, strike another thing off of my wishlist. As a followup to my IPTV thoughts post, I have purchased one of the new Mac Mini’s with an HDMI port over the weekend. I even got the pleasure of buying it, atwhat I believe is the original Apple Store, in Tysons Corner,Virginia while visiting my in-laws.
Finally bought a Drobo for home
14, Jun 2010Last week, I found a deal I could not pass up. B&H Photo has a deal on a Drobo for $299 though 6/30/2010. If you’ve never heard of a Drobo, it is an external storage enclosure from Data Robotics that offers some enterprise-class, automated mirroring/striping for your data across multiple hard drives. Data Robotics calls [...]
Google Wave is cool enough, but is it useful?
24, Oct 2009Its been a few weeks and I now have a few friends populated in Google Wave. When I first received my invite, it was me, myself and I – ok, that’s just one person – on Wave. I had to turn to the in:public search option to find any waves to try out the service. [...]
Google Wave invite has arrived
1, Oct 2009Overnight, I received my Google Wave invite. So far, no one I know has a Wave account, I’ve sent out a few invites and hopefully later today, I can begin riding the Wave. More soon…
Anniversary passed without notice
5, Aug 2009Yesterday marked a milestone for me. I signed on with this blog exactly one year ago yesterday, and I missed my anniversary. It was only today that I noticed that my archives extended back to August 2008 and when I clicked in, found that my first post went live on August 4. I still seem [...]
- In: Everything Else|Internet
- Tags: anniversary, blogging
What’s missing in Chrome OS?
9, Jul 2009Following up on my earlier post about Chrome OS, I got to thinking. Google has GMail for email, Talk for chat, Google Docs for word processing, spreadsheets and presentations, and a slew of other cloud based apps. But what is missing from their portfolio and therefore missing in Chrome OS? I know we don’t know [...]
Making the statement that all you need to run today is now online, Google has introduced it own OS – dubbed Chrome OS and largely based around its Chrome web browser. Its a bold statement where thick-clients are still the de-facto standard. But it comes at a time where online applications like GMail and Google [...]
Test driving Moblin on a netbook
13, Jun 2009I came across Moblin earlier this week online and so I decided to impose myself against my buddy Jamie and try to run this on his Acer netbook. So, we downloaded and prepped the live USB stick and booted the thing up to see what the distribution looked like. I guess I should back up. [...]
- In: Everything Else|Internet
- Tags: Linux OS, Moblin, Netbooks