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Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
This was one of the hardest articles I have ever written. The pictures I have posted below are from an email I received from a relative in Europe who happens to be a police officer. The header on the email was, “Don’t text and drive”. The guy was texting whilst he was driving and ‘wandered’ [...]
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Monday, February 11th, 2008
Usually we would not cover such a thing but I actually was actually surprised when I read this little tidbit on BoyGenius.com. It seems like Microsoft is buying out Danger Inc. I guess that means that the Danger OS will be going the way of the wind. I wonder what a Windows Mobile Danger handheld [...]
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Monday, February 11th, 2008
Okay don’t get all excited this is not coming to a BlackBerry near you anytime soon. I just thought it was interesting that SRS Labs is working on a new 5.1 stereo surround sound codec specifically for mobile devices. This is a pretty cool idea but I have to ask if they really think the [...]
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Thursday, February 7th, 2008
I have never made it a secret that I’m a huge ‘Apple’ fan.
It occurred to me the other day that the small ‘Trackball’ on my Curve matches the small ‘TrackBall’ on my wireless Apple mighty mouse. A few people who have used my computer absolutely hated it preferring instead the standard mouse ‘clickwheel’. I guess [...]
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Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
I received an email from a friend containing a few tricks with mobile (Cell) phones. At first I just disregarded it as ‘Junk’. Some of these we all know…ie: International emergency phone number as this tip is included in every mobile phone instruction booklet I have ever read. But I decided to try the tip [...]
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Thursday, January 24th, 2008
Mike Masnick reported on Techdirt about a scary twist on the fourth amendment. According to a paper written by Adam Gershowitz, a criminal law professor, police have the right to search the contents of your smartphone if you are arrested. I am no lawyer but the idea is that if you are arrested then any [...]
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Monday, January 14th, 2008
Richard Blakeley is either the very calculated or just plain dumb. During CES he videotaped himself turning off LCD TV’s during certain companies presentations. He did this to Motorola, Intel, and Creative. Gizmodo made some pretty serious enemies from this stunt. On the other hand, from the last time I checked Gizmodo’s video post it [...]
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Friday, January 11th, 2008
Okay I have to preface this by saying that CES is the largest show I know of with over 35 football fields worth of gadgets. Now to find the funniest product I had to search high and wide until I ran across the Crocs O-Dial.
First of all I am not that big of a Crocs [...]
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