Alot of people were talking after last year’s timely visit from former U.S. Vice President Al Gore to the inaugural Green Living Show, about how we could top that. Well, I don’t know if you can compare, but this year’s special presentation will be former President (and hopeful First Husband) Bill Clinton. His presentation, “Embracing [...]
Format war over: Blu-ray wins
February 19, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Toshiba announced today that they would be discontinuing their production and support of the HD-DVD format, leaving Sony’s Blu-Ray format as the “winner”. It’s nice to have the format war done so that the industry can move on… finally. The problem is that so many people have put off buying into either format, that now [...]
Microsoft and Yahoo
February 1, 2008 By Leave a Comment
So Microsoft has thrown it down. After over a year of speculation, they have dropped a whopping $44.6 Billion to buy Yahoo in their bid to play “catch up” to Google. The Yahoo/Microsoft deal is not yet done; it is simply an offer. However, its pretty likely that this will happen, and that Yahoo will [...]
Accelerometer
January 18, 2008 By Leave a Comment
So the iPod Touch and the iPhone have an accelerometer in it. They use it to detect when you tilt the device sideways and it will auto rotate your photos or whatever with it. What a waste! This thing is ridiculously accurate! With a hacked OS, you can load up 3rd party apps. There is [...]
iPod Touch and wasted potential
January 16, 2008 By Leave a Comment
When the iPod Touch was first released, my initial thought that this was a device that could be built upon. Like a home computer or a laptop, this tiny device had enough processing power to incorporate some really great features. Built in WiFi, MultiTouch screen, and an accelerometer would give this device a real advantage [...]
Format war: Writings on the wall
January 5, 2008 By Leave a Comment
The first big shoe has dropped. Warner brothers has announced that they will no longer support HD-DVD and focus its efforts on promoting Sony’s Blu-ray standard as a high definition medium. As much as I would prefer HD-DVD to take and keep the lead, this has got to be a blow to Toshiba and the [...]