Up until now, though I’m a huge Apple fan and user since as far back as I can remember computers, I’ve always wanted the latest and greatest from them. From my Macintosh SE 1/20, to my StyleWriter II, from the Apple QuickTake which I managed to borrow from school often, to the Newton 2000 I [...]

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WARNING — GEEK ALERT!
I’m about 270 miles from home, visiting my wife’s college friend, but this isn’t the only context in which I enjoy this set up. I use it whenever I travel on business and whenever we’re away from home.
My set up consists of the following:
At Home:
A DirecTV DVR (http://www.directv.com)- My personal preference is [...]

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OK… I haven’t written any rants yet, and as hard as I’m trying to I just cannot accept that in the year 2008 I’m still getting bombarded with all sorts of pharmaceutical products in my in-boxes. Its interesting to see how different mail services handle spam better or worse, and I used to chuckle at [...]

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Its hard to imagine who would fork out $1,500 dollars for the top model, which comes with all active keys. Those who did either already got theirs, or will be getting it shortly. This certainly falls into the ‘must have’ gadget category… but its way [...]

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Not that I do, but the truth is that after migrating my wordpress.com blog to my own hosted version of Word Press, I have a renewed respect and appreciation for how easy and friendly things have gotten on the web. And hats of to Word Press as well for making this possible.
The instructions on how [...]

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At least to your eyes it does - and it looks like this came right out of a Back To The Future Movie!
This is one of the coolest items I have ever come across on the Internet. Its not new, it dates back to 2005 or 2006, but every time I watch the video, and [...]

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I’m a happy owner of Logitech’s latest cordless desktop product! The Logitech Cordless Desktop MX 5500 Revolution.
 

 
On Monday Amazon delivered the keyboard & mouse combo I’ve been ‘craving’ for quite some time. Its a long story, but in a nutshell I was stuck using a stock Dell keyboard, which wasn’t meeting my needs, after my [...]

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I recently answered a question on Yedda, and thought my response may be valuable to others wondering about e-commerce, so I’m sharing it here as well:
Check out this interesting answer on Yedda
How can your company benefit from e-commerce?
Lames,
Its hard to answer your question accurately without more information about what kind of company (size), what [...]

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I laugh thinking what NASA scitentists might think, and the reaction this may cause, if they suddenly picked up a transmission like this on some obscure distant frequency - all joking aside, this technology is quite amazing.
Reactable is “a collaborative electronic music[al] instrument with a tabletop tangible multi-touch interface”, in other words its an interactive [...]

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