In the beginning, there was Windows, and it was good. As a wee Buffalo calf, I harbor fond fragments of life piloted behind weathered grey CRT monitors as I quested through virtual mazes on Prodigy. Many hours were dissolved by frantically playing NHL ’99 on an IBM tower with a Thrustmaster joystick—the pin connection type. I even remember my first dance with the Internet at the...
Nothing like an ice cream sandwich that melts in the 100 degree August heat and leaks out of its wrapper all over your pants before you can eat it, huh? Mmm, Summertime. Lucky for me, August in the Bay Area is more like mid-70s and 80s, and the words “Ice Cream Sandwich” and “Leaks” refer to hot new technology, not sadly melting desserts. Looks like the first screenshots of Android 4.0...
I feel like the black sheep in the Tablet herd, questing to find meaning within this gadget’s baffling existence, but always strolling away with a sprinkling of pros and a bushel of cons. Let me spew more diesel onto the incendiary spectacle by adding this to the table: I think tablets are one of the most pointless and overrated devices ever to be devoured by the consumer market. They...
Following recent cyber attacks on News Corp, Sony, and even the Pentagon, I'm sure you're already aware of the "hacktivist" group known as Anonymous. Its next attack, named "Operation Facebook" and scheduled for November 5, promises to "destroy" the world's largest social network and the "medium of communication [we] all so dearly adore." Its reason for targeting Facebook, according to...
Dear HP, Don’t let us down. Please. We’re rooting for you, but also we need you. So don’t let us down. You know what I’m talking about. I’m talking about smartphones not InkJets, tablets nor desktops – I’m talking about mobile and how the future of webOS lies in your ability to get good hardware out quickly. But allow me to explain, nonetheless. A few years ago a suddenly rejuvenated...
RIM is going wild with the new handset announcements for carriers today. Just this morning three new BlackBerry phones were announced for AT&T, and now Sprint has chimed in with two new devices of their own. The BlackBerry Bold 9930 & BlackBerry Torch 9850 will both be sporting the new BlackBerry 7 operating system as well as 1.2 GHz, 5 MP cameras and be world phone capable. ...
The Endermen, as Notch decided he would be calling them earlier this week, will likely be the creepiest mobs currently discoverable in the Minecraft universe. The indy developer went to the trouble of detailing his recent design decisions for this mob and the way it will behave with players on his blog, The Word of Notch. It’s there that he explores the notion of what makes scary things...
At the beginning of this week, we really had no idea what Apple’s iPhone 5 might look like. A number of previous rumors have claimed the device will sport a fancy new redesign, making the device thinner and lighter; while many others claimed it would look identical to the iPhone 4 but with a few changed to the internals. We didn’t know which rumor to put our money on! However, over the...
After seeing Mike’s Top 5 Phones post, I was inspired to write my own. There’s one thing: this list is definitive, I’m saying that right here and now. These are the five best phones ever created. They’re my favorite phones, absolutely. But they should be yours too. In fact, if you like any other phone better than any of the phones on this list, you’re wrong. I’m sorry, file this one...
So why is everyone so excited about Spotify‘s way overdue launch in the U.S.? After all, we have no lack of music streaming services here. Well, it pretty much blazed a trail in Europe, where it is still hugely popular. Unfortunately, the Swedish-based music-streaming company seemingly took forever for it to negotiate the deals it needed to launch service in America. But now that it’s...