Bringing another over to the Dark Side

My brother just bought a shiny new iPhone 3GS.  He had a smart phone, but didn’t like it. The User Experience on that phone just plain sucked.  It wasn’t  just that the phone used the Microsoft WINCE OS, although that is a damn good start for a poor user experience, the had the nasty habit [...]

Remote PC Access

I setup remote PC access on a family member’s computer using gotomypc, and I have to say that it really was as easy as advertised.   I tested it using my laptop and was able to connect, and transfer files, right off the bat.  The interface is clean and simple to use. One thing I’ve [...]

Today’s Nifty Gadet

As my gentle readers  may have noticed, I am a big fan of gadgets, from simple to bright & shiny electronics. This gadget falls under the simple, yet useful and cool category. It’s a six in one multitool shaped like a key, and this fits very nicely on your key ring.  The small blade is [...]

“Orion Light” proposed

Bigelow Aerospace is  proposing a scaled down version of NASA’s own Orion project.  They claim they can have it up and running by 2013, while NASA’s projected date of March 2015 for getting Orion in space is seen as fuzzy at best.

Cleaning up after the “pros”

The PC the dojo I train/teach at caught a nasty virus.  I cleaned it up, but the owner “knew this guy” who would “clean up” the system fairly cheap.   “This guy” logged in remotely, and “cleaned up” the system until it would only boot to the “Blue Screen of Death.” I’m talking serious “BSoD” [...]

Best use of Federal Stimulus money I’ve seen so far.

NASA somehow has gotten hold of $50 Million of the 9% of the federal stimulus money being spent in 2009 and is using it “to seed development of commercial passenger transportation service to space.” NASA does some good stuff, but they couldn’t agree on the basic specs without spending more than $50 million dollars.  Given [...]

Bad move by Apple

Apple barred the new Google Talk App from the iTunes App Store. The initial claim was that the app duplicated core services of the iPhone. To get around Apple’s monopolitics ban, point your iPhone browwer to www.google.com/talk. There has been other fallout from Apple’s ban, besides pissed off customers, the FCC is asking questions and [...]

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