By Sean P. Aune |
It seems so innocent. Call in for a little floppy disk with software that would give you 10 hours of online access. Little did anyone know it would be the harbinger of an endless deluge of those disks and an ever growing number of free…
By Sean P. Aune |
Lets kick it old school with the original Grand Theft Auto, shall we? You have to wonder if back in Oct. 1997 if anyone realized a gaming phenomenon was hitting the shelves in its infancy. Sure every game designer is hoping that the title they labored over…
By Sean P. Aune |
As I watched the election results this past Tuesday night, I was blown away by some of the technology we saw in use to do such simple things as show us the vote total of any given state. Being the “old coot” of the TechnoBuffalo…
By Sean P. Aune |
Star Wars has a long history in the world of video games, and the news that Disney has purchased Lucasfilm this week pretty much guarantees us a rich future of new gaming experiences to look forward to. As we look back, however, a lot of…
By Sean P. Aune |
It’s hard to believe that Windows 8 is finally here, and is there any better way of celebrating than looking back at a soundless slideshow of Windows 1.0 features? Nope. Considering the rate at which some software packages update these days, it’s hard to believe…
By Sean P. Aune |
When I was a kid, there was nothing more frightening than hearing your TV show sound cut out, and then hear the words, “We interrupt this broadcast.” One has to wonder, however, if those days are gone for good. With the news this week that…
By Sean P. Aune |
We’ve been excitedly following the Mars Curiosity Rover mission here at TechnoBuffalo, but I’m one of the few staff members that is old enough to remember the first mission, and able to appreciate just how far our exploration of the red planet has come. Way…
By Sean P. Aune |
All of this talk of improving maps lately has made me think back to my family’s first GPS, and then it makes me think, “Yeah, iOS 6 Maps may suck, but at least it’s in color.” Our first GPS unit was a Garmin GPS V…
By Sean P. Aune |
ColecoVision was where those of us who skipped the Atari 2600 usually started our console gaming lives. On this week’s episode of Tech on the Range I made a reference to the ColecoVision controllers, to which Jon Rettinger immediately joked that many of you were…
By Sean P. Aune |
Remember the original iPhone? No … you probably don’t. Buried deep in the history of the iPhone from Apple is the fact that the company announced the original iPhone without yet owning the rights to it. You see, the very first product ever launched with…
By Sean P. Aune |
With the introduction of the iPhone 5 this week, is there a better time to look back at the original iPhone beng introduced? Whatever your feelings are when it comes to the war of smartphone operating systems and physical design, you have to admit that…
By Sean P. Aune |
It never ceases to amaze me to see how far Amazon has come. I can’t remember exactly when I placed my first order with Amazon … wait … that isn’t true! Excuse me while I pull up my account! And there it is – you…
By Sean P. Aune |
Oh, Nintendo … what were you thinking? There have been a slew of stupid gaming peripherals over the years, but what the heck was Nintendo thinking in 1987 when it actually ponded releasing a knitting machine accessory for the original Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). This image has…
By Sean P. Aune |
In this day and age of walking into a Walmart and seeing bins filled with $5 DVDs, it may be hard to realize there was a time when buying pre-recorded media was treated as a special event. Ah, Time-Life, what would we have done without…
By Sean P. Aune |
Ah, fax machines. One of those devices that everyone very clearly had a love/hate relationship with, and still do. Our own Adriana Lee wrote up this week how she had a recent battle with these relics of yesteryear, and it got me all nostalgic for…
By Sean P. Aune |
As vaporware goes, one of the finest examples might be The Phantom gaming console. Who knew the name would turn out to be so true? At E3 2004, Infinium Labs caught everyone’s attention with a new console called The Phantom. The idea was that it…
By Sean P. Aune |
Why has the Final Fantasy series never been able to recapture the success of Final Fantasy VII? Square Enix CEO Yoichi Wada recently said of the chances of a remake of the infamous Final Fantasy VII: We’ll make a Final Fantasy VII remake once we’ve…
By Sean P. Aune |
With the introduction of Mac OS X Mountain Lion this week, it felt like a good time to look back at another major Apple OS release: Mac OS 9. Last year we took a look back at the introduction of Mac OS X – which…
By Sean P. Aune |
When I got to work yesterday I remembered that I had forgotten to set my DirecTV DVR for a show. I fished my iPhone 4S out of my pocket, pulled up the DirecTV app, found the show and told it to record. I then sat…
By Sean P. Aune |
Jelly Bean is so 2012, lets travel back in time to 2007 to get our first taste of Android. It’s hard to believe Android has been around less than five years. I remember when the “G Phone” rumors were circulating and I was working at…
By Sean P. Aune |
Before the mobile phone took over our lives, it seemed that everyone and their brother had a pager … including Leonard Nimoy it would seem. I received an email the other day with something listed in the signature that I had not seen in eons:…
By Sean P. Aune |
Seeing as the iPhone turned five-years-old today, lets take a moment to look at how at least one of the biggest names in the tech industry reacted to it when it first appeared. Steve Ballmer, the current CEO of Microsoft, has long been a bit…
By Sean P. Aune |
If the name “Surface” seemed familiar to you this week when Microsoft introduced its new line of tablets, there was a reason for that. Back in 2008 Microsoft released the Surface which was, at the time, a table-sized interface that could be used in businesses…
By Sean P. Aune |
Fire up the DeLorean, we’re heading back in time to 1983 for some Apple announcements. Earlier this week we brought you all the coverage of WWDC 2012, so it only seemed fitting we take a look back at the very first Apple World Wide Developers Conference from…
