(image courtesy Houston News) Just last year there was a pretty serious controversy over how Amazon handled pirated books in the Kindle store. Since anyone can upload a book to Amazon, a version of 1984 was uploaded and sold without the copyright holder’s permission. Amazon took an unfortunate stance of removing all copies without warning, [...]
Archive | September, 2010
iPad Case Review – TwelveSouth BookBook for iPad
Here are a few of my books… in this picture alone there are over 100 different books. 16 of them are of the dead-tree variety. The rest are in the Kindle app on my iPad. Yup, that’s my iPad right in the middle of the picture. It is sitting safe, hidden and secure in its [...]
8 Month Old Deaf Baby’s Reaction To Cochlear Implant Being Activated
A cochlear implant (CI) is a surgically implanted electronic device that provides a sense of sound to a person who is profoundly deaf or severely hard of hearing. The cochlear implant is often referred to as a bionic ear. According to Wikipedia, as of April 2009, approximately 188,000 people worldwide had received cochlear implants; in the United States, [...]
Just in Time for Halloween, Batman’s Utility Belt Can Be Yours
I’ve been making jokes about BatBelts for years – usually when referring to the way so many of geeks will carry a plethora of items clipped to their waist. And now, for $149, geeks everywhere can have a real BatBelt of their own. Composed of polished bronze leather with silver studs, this isn’t some cheep [...]
A Most Awesome Video: the History of Rap with Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake
There are no words! Dieter Bohn (@backlon) just tweeted this, and I thought it was so awesome that I had to share. See if you can name all the songs and artists Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake go through; the imitations are spot on, fun to watch and the whole experience is hysterical! Unfortunately this [...]
iPad Case News- Booq Reveals Boa folio for iPad
The folio is, by far, my favorite design for an iPad case. It does exactly what I need it to do and, in the process, protects the iPad when I am on the go. Now Booq has added a new line of cases that brings another folio-stlye option iPad case to market- the Boa folio. [...]
Boxed Water is > Bottled Water
Bottled water is everywhere. With it comes an incredible amount of waste in the form of the empty bottles. Some of these bottles get recycled but many do not. More than 2.4 billion pounds of plastic bottles were recycled in 2008. Although the amount of plastic bottles recycled in the U.S. has grown every year [...]
Review: Lan Gear’s SFF “Da Box 100 Blackheart” Gaming Case, Little Package With A Big Heart
Image courtesy of Lan Gear Back since I bought my first caddy load cd drive I have been building my own computers for personal use and gaming. Since IT is now my career, the past few years I don’t do as much gaming but still like to keep my home system up to date with [...]
Gear Games Reviews: Freemium Fever! LotR Online, D&D Online, Quake Live
Image courtesy of the freemium blog I have had such great feedback from my ‘quickie’ music reviews that I thought – wouldn’t it make sense on occasion to apply the same logic to video games? I mean, I will give a full review to Civilization V, but not everything needs such an extensive treatment, and [...]
Rocketeer for iPhone/Touch Review
We are all feeling the financial pinch! Blue Plate Special is a weekly review of bargain apps for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Nothing over $.99. The last two weeks, I reviewed apps that were kind of off beat and different from the usual Blue Plate Special choices. As I searched and scraped apps this [...]
Something Worth Supporting: The ‘It Gets Better’ Project
Regardless of where you stand on anything related to gender issues, I don’t think anyone can help but be appalled by the news coming out of Texas last week – that a 13 year old 8th grader killed himself after YEARS of bullying including accusations of being gay and being pushed down the stairs in [...]
Review: Blio eBook Reader
The Blio ebook reader program debuted today. Since Blio has a special deal with Toshiba, I downloaded the Toshiba-branded “Book Place” version for my NB205 netbook. Since Blio is a very unique program, with 3D page turns and other eye candy, I took the above video to demo the features. Here’s the summary/commentary to the [...]
UPDATED! Tales In Packaging Insanity- Default Case
Larry has commented on Default Case a few times. Most recently he made the case that Default Case needs to stop talking and start doing. I agree- good customer service and a funny one-liner only go so far. After Larry’s first encounter with Default Case I ordered four more of the cases. Two came fairly [...]
Meesa Goin’ Tree-Dee! Star Wars Comes Back to Theaters in 3D Starting in 2012!
It is hard to call this ‘news’ as it was hinted at long ago, and earlier this year Lucas himself confirmed that “the success and achievements of “Avatar” could help bring “Star Wars” into the third dimension.” But now we have full confirmation of an actual project with a timeline. Back in January Lucas said: [...]
Naked iPad? No, Speck SeeThru!
I suspect most folks will agree that the iPad is a nice looking device. So why would you want to cover it up and obscure all that aluminum and glass beauty? I mean, would you put a rubberized case on the Picasso in Daley Plaza? No, I don’t think so. With this in mind, the [...]
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