Tag Archives: Technology

Apple proposes tiny RF modules for ever-present connectivity

October 23, 2008 – 2:45 pm

I’d just like to point out that I advanced this idea during my sophomore or junior year of college (sometime between 2002 and 2004). My college friends can verify that — I promoted the idea to pretty much everyone. But I never wrote it down, so I can’t really prove it to the world. Oh, [...]

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Thinking About HD Camcorders

October 17, 2008 – 2:02 pm

The new HD camcorders are different from traditional camcorders in several ways. The most obvious is the stunning picture quality. Never have your most banal home videos looked so good! But I’m most concerned about the technical differences. Here are a few of my notes.

Tape or Tapeless?

Many of the newest HD camcorders leave out the [...]

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MacBooks and Firewire

October 17, 2008 – 11:46 am

I was initially excited about the new MacBook and MacBook Pro models from Apple. Then I noticed that the new MacBook doesn’t include a Firewire port. This is a bit of a big deal for me. My Panasonic video camera requires Firewire to download videos to the computer. I like using my MacBook to download [...]

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Kindle vs iPod

August 5, 2008 – 1:51 pm

Seen on /.:

The main advantage of the Kindle over the iPhone is actually the fact that it’s not a phone; do you realize how high you jump when you’re sitting in a quiet place deeply into a horror novel, and right at the scariest part, the damn thing RINGS at you?!

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Bush wants to chat. Do you accept?

October 6, 2007 – 10:06 am

Above: Madame Secretary tactfully avoids Kim’s gaze.

One interesting fact known by few around the blogosphere about North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il is that the feared tyrant is himself a skilled surfer of the World Wide Web.

That’s because he never told anybody until this week, when he informed R.O.K. President Moo-hyun during their “historic summit” [...]

By Adam Volle | Posted in Humor, Politics, Whatever | Comments (0)

Robotic Telecommunication

September 5, 2007 – 5:29 pm

Telecommuting — the next generation. This is how I need to work from home.

Programmer Ivan Bowman spends his days at iAnywhere Solutions Inc. in much the same way his colleagues do. He writes code, exchanges notes in other developers’ offices, attends meetings and, on occasion, hangs out in the kitchen [...]

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Get an iPhone Without a Two Year Contract

July 4, 2007 – 8:01 am

If you really want an iPhone, but you don’t want a two-year AT&T contract, there’s good news. You can use it with AT&T’s prepaid plans.

The Unofficial Apple Weblog has instructions on how to activate the phone with a prepaid plan. They also have screenshots of the monthly plans that are available.

Assuming that $20 of the [...]

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Innovation at the DMV

May 8, 2006 – 3:29 pm

I’m always quick to criticize the Department of Motor Vehicles. After all, I’ve spent more time in their lines than I have anywhere else. Still, fairness requires me to praise them when they actually do something right. The Wisconsin State Journal wrote today about the DMV making it tricky to get fake driver’s licenses:

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They Think You’d Cook Your Baby

May 5, 2006 – 8:10 am

The California Legislature thinks you’re too dumb to own an ultrasound machine. Here’s why:

“I’ve seen the images, and they are amazing,” Mr. Lieu, referring to ultrasound pictures, said in a telephone interview after the Assembly vote. “I could watch for hours. That’s the problem. Someone could leave it on the belly all day [...]

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Espresso Book Machine

April 11, 2006 – 7:18 am

Few things can get me as excited as a new application of technology. This time I’m excited about the Espresso Book Machine.

The new machine as a technological innovation promises to revolutionize how we buy books. It allows printing and binding a single copy of a book at the point of demand without human [...]

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