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Slow down. That’s a phrase not often heard in the US. At least not among the people I know. But it’s a notion that’s slowly starting to make more sense.
Americans love to think big and spend big. They want progress on every front, no matter what the cost. In the 20th century, that sort of [...]
On September 24, 2007, I published my review of the Olympus E-510 DSLR, one of the first prosumer cameras on the market to feature Live View (TTL video preview, directly off the same CMOS sensor used for photographs). Unless people were to jump to conclusions, I wanted to make it clear that it won’t let [...]
» Go to this postI wrote about the problem with e-waste and pollution in China back in April, but this topic is worth harping on every chance I get. It’s very serious, and it will affect us as well, in the very near future. The Earth is smaller than we think, and its ecosystem is fragile enough already.
Please watch [...]
If you have not yet heard of a documentary called “The Future of Food” (2004), or haven’t yet watched it, please take the time to do so. It is vital that you know what’s going into the food that you eat, and it’s vital that you know it now, before it’s too late.
What’s been happening [...]
We read about software that can improve blurry photos these days, and about significant improvements to autofocus on even inexpensive cameras. We look at photos that we take, the washed out ones, and wish we’d have exposed them a little less, or a little more. We wonder how they can be improved.
My solution points to [...]
I’ve been harping aplenty in past posts about how nasty and inconvenient flying has become, what with all of these time-wasting “security” checks at airports, but with the recent “bomb scare” in the UK, I think it’s become downright unpleasant. What, now we can’t bring any liquids on the plane with us, not even a [...]
» Go to this postWired News is running a great FAQ on Intel’s Dual Core processors - what’s on the market now, and what’s going to get here pretty soon. Bottom line - if you’d like some fast laptop processors, wait until the Merom line gets on the market, which will be late August. Perhaps some laptop makers (Apple [...]
» Go to this postTime has a great slideshow of up and coming gadgets. A few that I really like are a new cellphone from Samsung that’s thinner and lighter than the Razr, the Sanyo Xacti HD camcorder, the swivable laptop display from Intel, and the “sideshow” display that allows you to check email and play music without opening [...]
» Go to this postFrom TechCrunch:
“Microsoft is building an online storage service, code named Live Drive, says Ray Ozzie in an interview with Fortune.
Microsoft is planning to use its server farms to offer anyone huge amounts of online storage of digital data. It even has a name for that future service: Live Drive. With Live Drive, all your information [...]
This article by Anne Broach of CNET News sheds light on what’s going to be a big problem in the near future, for privacy reasons: storing of user traffic data by ISPs, in data warehouses available for government queries. The government wants to mandate this through law.
Jim Harper, director of information policy studies at the [...]
I was in my car, driving back from lunch, when I got a call on my cellphone. I’m holding out on buying a Bluetooth headset, because they look ridiculous. So I still have to answer the phone the “old fashioned” way, by flipping it open and pressing Speakerphone. I know, what tough luck… But I [...]
» Go to this postI was in the bathroom, whistling a tune I’d heard in a movie last night (”Anchors Aweigh”, with Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra,) and wishing I could find out its title, when it occurred to me. Why shouldn’t I be able to search for it?
I should be able to whistle that tune into my computer’s [...]
The seller was going to send it by priority mail but I requested...