Foursquare, that cute little services that lets you check in at a venue to let others know you are there, share and read tips about the place and, if you check in often enough, become the Fourquare mayor of the location, has teamed up with CES this year to make things a bit more fun. [...]
Archive | January, 2011
JOBY Announces Two New Ways To Make Your iPad Even More Awesome
On Sunday I needed a way to shoot the video of me packing for CES for our No Baggage Challenge for Charity. Problem was, no one was home but me. No problem… I put a screw between slats in the ceiling (it is a post and beam house so there isn’t even a hole now) [...]
AMD Makes Processors Sound Exciting!
I love corporate thrillers. One of my favorite books of all time is “Paranoia” by Joseph Finder, an awesome espionage/thriller with cool twists. However, despite being a big geek words like “silicon” and “graphics chip” don’t really pique my interest. However, AMD has put together an AWESOME trailer for their newest chips, and if this [...]
Why Barnes and Noble Shouldn’t Buy Borders
Rich Adin has an editorial making the rounds of the ebook world today, where he argues that B&N should snap Borders up for several strategic reasons. His reasons aren’t bad, per se, but I think he underestimates much of the risks and pitfalls in his ideas, and they come from a more idealist view than [...]
PC Game Review: Destination Treasure Island
Destination Treasure Island has point-and-click adventures with a great storyline, automatic save points, and considerable inventory management system.
George Lucas and the Misunderstood Genius of the Prequel Trilogy?
Despite growing up only a few miles from the original Dunkin Donuts, I have uniformly disliked the advertisements for the shop since enjoying the original ‘Time to Make the Donuts’ commercial … not the least reason for which was that ‘Fred the Baker’ looked much like the guy I worked for through high school and [...]
Google to Expand to Periodicals?
(image courtesy Magazine Template) The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google is looking to sell more than just books. Apparently they also want to sell newspapers and magazines, probably as a way to offer more content to the slew of Android tablets coming out this year! According to the WSJ: Google has discussed its [...]
Romance eBooks Outsell Paper Books in the UK!
Now here’s a potential game changer: ebooks in the “romance” category are outstripping sales of their mass market counterparts in the UK. Now granted, you can hide that you love Harlequins more easily on the Kindle, and the prices are slightly cheaper, but this is still big news. Hardcore romance readers LOVE those books, and [...]
Music Diary Notes: The Smithsonian Institute Challenges You to Test Your Jazz Knowledge
Do you love Jazz? Do you like taking sound quizzes? Do you think you know the history of jazz well enough to take a huge online test? Well, the Smithsonian has a challenge for you! Next March, according to the Smithsonian site, an all-new anthology of jazz music, featuring 111 songs across 6 CDs. There [...]
Android Market Gets New Look and New Features!
I noticed changes to the look & feel of the Android Market over the holiday break when grabbing some apps for my Droid, but just had the chance to search the Android blog and found more details. Here is some info from the blog: This new Market client introduces important features that improve merchandising of [...]
Gear Diary’s NoBC to CES for Haiti Plunge- the Packing Episode
Don’t forget: This challenge is benefiting The Haiti Plunge – They are building a road and a new medical clinic among other things in a rural part of Haiti. Please take a second and support them HERE. Today is the day when the SCOTTEVEST No Baggage Challenge for Charity becomes a reality and moves into [...]
iPhone Accessory Review: XCEL Case
It would be no exaggeration to say that after I placed the ElementCase Vapor 4 on my iPhone 4, no other case felt quite right. I loved the heft that my iPhone got with that ring of aluminum around it (because yes, I am weird like that), and the colors available made the iPhone unmistakably [...]
Gear Diary 2010 Gear of the Year and Predictions for 2011
The past year has seen interesting developments in the gear we all use: the term iOS replaced iPhone OS as the OS that started on iPhone was also on the new iPad when it took the world and Gear Diary writers by storm, Android phones blossomed and became real competitors to the iPhone, and the [...]
CES 2010 Redux- A Look Back Before We Head Out to CES 2011
Before we head out to CES 2011 tomorrow we thought we might take a look back at some of the things we saw… And did… At CES 2010. Amazing to think that this was BI (Before iPad) and how much has changed since. It is also amazing to realize how many of the products we saw that [...]
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