I’ve noticed that Intel has been putting images of the bare dies (dice?) in their advertising campaign. Above is an image I screen-grabbed from an article on NYTimes.com. The pink-blue-orange photo of a Core2 processor before it gets packaged up into an installable chip is actually quite beautiful. Of course, this resolution doesn’t really do … [Read more…]
Ars Technica has a review up of the iRex iLiad ebook reader. The Amazon Kindle got fairly positive reviews from the likes of David Pogue of the NY Times, and the Ars review is pretty positive on this one as well. Has the time finally come for ebooks? For one thing, the technology has finally … [Read more…]
Sure, email is an easy way to send important information out to a large number of people. It’s almost too easy, and many people’s definition of “important” borders on ridiculous. The marginal cost in computing resources and effort to reach additional people is so tiny, it can be neglected in any reasonably sized organization. In … [Read more…]
Further to my previous post about Humanized Enso, I’ll pass on the word that Humanized have decided to make Enso free. That was nice of them! Now stop reading this and give it a try.
Can I just say that among my email pet peeves (and believe me, they are numerous) is when anti-virus software appends a message to outgoing mail, along the lines of: No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.19.20/1259 – Release Date: 4/02/2008 I copied this … [Read more…]
I’m often confused, and usually amused when people say they don’t have and don’t want a mobile phone. My mom is one of these people, but I’m not confused by her reasoning. It seems a bit dismissive to say, but really, she doesn’t get out much. I don’t mean this in a she’s-out-of-touch-with-the-world way, she … [Read more…]
I remember being really excited about a feature on my very first PDA (a Sony CLIÉ PEG-s320): the ability to transfer contacts wirelessly to another Palm OS device. It worked over the IR port at the top of the unit, and with a single gesture, a long stroke from the “Graffiti” area to the top … [Read more…]
Just over a week ago, I read a column from the ineffable Cory Doctorow in InformationWeek rightly blasting Facebook for (among other things) the way it notifies you about messages from others: The clue is in the steady stream of emails you get from Facebook: “So-and-so has sent you a message.” Yeah, what is it? … [Read more…]
So, I bought an iPhone over the weekend. There’s been plenty of praise for the iPhone out there on the web–hell, it came out in the US months ago. Since other sites have pretty much said most of what there is to say about how nice it is, I’ll just say that I love it, … [Read more…]
One of my favorite things to show people on my computer these days is a great piece of software called Enso, made by a small company called Humanized, Inc. I started using it about 6 weeks ago and I have not clicked the Start button since. It is quite possibly the best invention in human-computer … [Read more…]