All About Technology
Sorry for being so out of touch lately. Lots of stuff going on at home, and I haven’t had nearly the time to post as I’ve wanted. That should be over, however, and hopefully I’ll start posting far more often. On that note, I just had to mention Toshiba’s new KIRAbook line of Ultrabooks. I [...]
If you’d rather buy a Nexus 10 locally as opposed to the Google Play store, then your only option today is Walmart. And even then, there doesn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason to which Walmarts have them and how many they’re stocking (most seem to have two on hand). I called all of [...]
Update: Clearly, I was disappointed by the election results, and don’t have much confidence that the United States will move any closer to its original founding ideals of individual rights and limited government. Indeed, I fear that by the end of the next four years, we’ll barely recognize the United States as the one and [...]
Okay, so, I have pretty much zero interest in the new iPhone set to be announced tomorrow, the iPhone 5. After using the new iPad (iPad 3, whatever) for a few months now, I’m right back where I started regarding iOS. It’s a very smooth, responsive, and kind of, sort of easy-to-use mobile operating system [...]
Gizmodo posted an article today titled “What Laptops Looked Like Before and After the MacBook Air.” The article’s implication is that other companies are being unoriginal in their designs, saying “Let’s try something different next time, yeah?” Gizmodo was linking from Daring Fireball (a very pro-Apple blog) who was linking from this site. Go check [...]
I came across this CNET article discussing the Apple MacBook Air’s release in 2010 and how the Sony Vaio X505 had actually beat it to the thin-and-light punch in 2004. Given Apple’s recently granted “wedge” patent for the MacBook Air, I thought it interesting to note that the Vaio X505 has a distinct wedge shape [...]
v. I’m not a lawyer, let alone a patent lawyer, and so anything I might say about the outcome of the Apple v. Samsung trial that concluded yesterday are the ramblings of a layman. I understand some of the basic principles of intellectual property law, and know trademarks and copyrights well enough to do my [...]
Large, established companies don’t take their logos lightly. Logos are the single most important element of a company’s brand, and having spent millions (or billions) of dollars in marketing to firmly establish the brand in the market’s psyche, it’s with great care and consideration that a company makes even minor changes to it. Usually, it’s [...]
Update: Well, the issues have returned for me after just a few days. Looks like this wasn’t a fix after all. So, consider the post notice that there’s a real problem with syncing the Calendar with an Exchange server, at least for some folks. If you’re like me, you’ve experienced some issues with the Calendar [...]
I noticed pretty early into my time with the Nexus 7 that the screen is washed out (color saturation is diminished, brightness and contrast are increased) after watching video. This happened pretty much with all video apps, including YouTube, Play Video, and Netflix, and seemed to vary in intensity by what kind of video was [...]