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A Tap to the Earth's Warmth
Tweet Share on Facebook December 6, 2006 Comment (1)Our geothermal heating and cooling system is installed and already saving us money. We know because we have hot water–or warm water, anyway.
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Microsoft's Confusing Vistas
Tweet Share on Facebook December 4, 2006 CommentMicrosoft released Windows Vista to business customers last week and reiterated that the new operating system would be available to consumers in late January. Now if we can only figure out which version we want.
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Tips for the Road Warrior
Tweet Share on Facebook November 29, 2006 Comment (13)The promise seemed so alluring: Dump my many chargers and wander the world with one power brick, enjoying a newfound lightness of being. The iGo everywhere delivers on the first half but not entirely on the second.
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A Pearl That's Shining
Tweet Share on Facebook November 16, 2006 CommentAppealing to consumers with a sophisticated device like a BlackBerry communicator is a tricky proposition. Research In Motion, the BlackBerry makers, decided to do so with a sleek, shiny black handset called the BlackBerry Pearl, and it appears to be living up to its name. RIM's stock hit a 52-week high today as sales of the handset appeared to be going well, according to a stock analyst at UBS.
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Treo 680: A Millimeter Here, a Millimeter There
Tweet Share on Facebook November 13, 2006 Comment (12)In toying with the new Treo 680, I was reminded of old commercials touting a cigarette that was "a silly millimeter longer." It seems Palm is hoping 2 millimeters can help turn the Treo, a traditionally stuffy business device, into something fun for consumers. That's how much depth that Palm trimmed off earlier Treos, making the 680 the smallest–by a tenth of an inch or so–of its successful line of smart phones.
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Life on a Digital Hilltop
Tweet Share on Facebook October 27, 2006 CommentI chuckle when I see "HDTV antenna" on boxes near expensive TVs at electronics stores. We're watching great digital TV with nothing more than a $20 antenna, an old-fashioned dipole (rabbit ears) with a loop in the middle.
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Two's Company but Three's a Crowd
Tweet Share on Facebook October 19, 2006 Comment (25)The race for raw speed is taking a pause; now PC makers are pitching more "cores" to sell new PCs. And according to reports this week from chipmakers Intel and Advanced Micro Devices, the new multicore processors are going to help awaken a slumbering PC market.
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Casting a Shadow Over Baseball's Tech Wizardry
Tweet Share on Facebook October 17, 2006 Comment (17)The first potential deal breaker has cropped up in my plan to cut the cable to cable. My Cardinals are in the baseball playoffs, at least for now. But ESPN has rights to broadcast many of the games, and it's only available on cable or satellite. That might mean that Cards uniforms, the beloved "Birds on a Bat," won't grace the sets of cheap antenna ants like me.
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Screens: Some Prices Have Bottomed Out
Tweet Share on Facebook October 10, 2006 Comment (20)We always expect prices for electronics to fall, and the predictions are just that for most flat-panel LCDs and plasmas. But don't get too cocky this holiday season—there are blips on the screen(s).
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Thumb drives: smaller and smarter storage
Tweet Share on Facebook September 28, 2006 CommentThumbs are getting smarts–thumb drives, that is. The little drives that plug into a computer's USB port are everywhere, offering portable storage that's small enough to fit on a key ring. They're also plunging in price, with 1-gigabyte models going for less than $30.
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