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Macs for the Rest of Us
Tweet Share on Facebook April 26, 2007 CommentWord of Apple's record earnings got me thinking again about switching to a Macintosh. Like most employees, I live in a Windows-dominated world. Most of my employer's software runs on Windows, and even though I don't usually work at the office, it's easier to work alongside if I also run Windows.
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A Recorder With Everything–Except Ease
Tweet Share on Facebook April 24, 2007 Comment (1)Digital voice recorders are remarkable tools–small enough to slip into a pocket because they record directly to memory chips–including an Olympus DS-30 ($150) that I've been playing with for a couple of months.
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Web Browsing With Keywords
Tweet Share on Facebook April 23, 2007 Comment (1)For many Web surfers, the address bar in their browser–the box at the top where you would type a site's address like www.usnews.com–gets little use. It's just too frustrating to remember Web addresses and too easy to mangle them. So we rely on bookmarks and search engines to take us where we want to go. An outfit called OpenDNS wants to breathe new life into the neglected address bar with shortcuts that you design.
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Try E-Books for Kids' Screen Time
Tweet Share on Facebook April 19, 2007 Comment (2)We try to limit the screen time for our young boys, whether television or computer, in favor of toys and books. So how to view having a computer read them a book?
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Disks Will Catch Video Downloads
Tweet Share on Facebook April 17, 2007 Comment (2)Amid the rush to enable the downloading of digital shows and movies, don't think for a moment that the disk is dead. It'll be a long time before downloading supplants the DVDs that we get at the local store or through the mail. Even then, our home networks will be too flaky to ship the shows to another room. For that, we'll walk a disk across an old-fashioned sneaker net.
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New BlackBerry Means Fun in the Office
Tweet Share on Facebook April 13, 2007 CommentComing on the heels of their popular Pearl smartphone, the folks who make BlackBerry devices have another hit in their sleek, also black model 8800. The device packs the multimedia features and good looks of the Pearl, bringing them to a device aimed at BlackBerry's core office users.
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Nibbling on Internet Video
Tweet Share on Facebook April 11, 2007 CommentMy household is a nightmare for cable and satellite systems, as we pay a la carte for our premium video entertainment, something most cable systems have resisted as they profit from selling bundles of channels. My family has enjoyed feeding on commercial programs served across the Internet–part of our experiment of cutting the cable.
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Changing Your Cellphone Identity
Tweet Share on Facebook April 10, 2007 CommentGetting a second or third phone number is simple these days, with services like Jajah and Skype that tap the Internet phoning craze using a PC. A new service called TalkPlus does the same for your cellphone, adding phone numbers to divide your mobile work from your dating scene, or your good customers from the cheapskates.
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Chomping Down for Dental Care
Tweet Share on Facebook April 9, 2007 CommentIt's been awhile since I needed to read a user manual for a toothbrush, but I did with the HydraBrush Express ($100)—an electric toothbrush with an approach that looks, and feels, different. The device sports not one but what looks like four pulsating brush heads that surround your top and bottom teeth in one swoop.
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The iTunes Store Boosts Audio Quality
Tweet Share on Facebook April 6, 2007 CommentApple made a breakthrough this week with word it would sell songs from one record company, EMI Group, without copy protection, freeing them from the confines–admittedly comfortable, but confines nonetheless–of the iPod. But also intriguing was that the iTunes store would sell the music at twice the audio quality of its other offerings.
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