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News April 8, 2013

Sucker Stylus for Tablets and Smartphones

When I had my late. very much lamented Tapwave Zodiac, we were still deep in the stylus era of PDAs. One of the problems with stylii, of course, is keeping it. Some PDAs (and early smart phones) had slots built into them to contain your (generally cheap plastic) stylus, but the Zodiac had a pretty [...]

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News April 7, 2013

by Douglas Moran

Embracing Analog and Why Physical Is Hot

I think I’ve mentioned it in one of my previous SXSWi posts, but it’s tricky figuring out which talks to go to at a big event like this. You do your best, and hope you don’t pick too many clinkers. I was excited about this particular talk about Analog — despite my love of almost [...]

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News April 7, 2013

by Douglas Moran

VitaSound launches Personal Audio Enhancer

All my life, I’ve been incredibly lucky enough to have unusually good hearing. Yup, my eyes have gotten worse, and of course my body continues its determined march towards decrepitude, but at least I’m still able to hear pretty durn well. But alas, many of my closest peeps are not so lucky; my BFF, for example, [...]

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Crowdfunding, News April 7, 2013

by Douglas Moran

MiiPC, Android Family PC with Companion Mobile App

Kickstarter proposal for a new Android Family Mini PC with a companion mobile Android app The vast majority of attention when it comes to Android devices is in the tablet and smartphone arenas. After all, Android was developed specifically with mobile devices in mind; it’s not surprising that that’s where the action is. But the [...]

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News April 7, 2013

by Douglas Moran

Blackberry Z10 PowerSkin Battery Case Officially Launches

I’ve probably gone on about it before, but it does bear repeating in brief: Smartphones are awesome, and it’s absolutely amazing to me that you can have so much computing power and storage space available in a device you can hold in your hand. But the down side it, that much computing power requires, well, [...]

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Events April 6, 2013

by Douglas Moran

Lessons on Privacy from the Adult Entertainment Industry at SXSWi

Yes, I know it’s been over for a few weeks now, but I still have some South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) notes about some interesting stuff that I encountered there that I would like to share with you all, so I hope you don’t mind. Note to Readers: This post discusses topics related to adult [...]

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News April 5, 2013

by Douglas Moran

Eye Paint MyDiary iOS App FREE Today Only!

I’m always happy to bring you folks news about stuff that’s free. I’m a dork about it, I admit; I put it in all-caps (FREE!) with an exclamation point. But the fact is, it tickles me. Stuff in life can be very costly as we all know, and to me the word FREE is like [...]

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News April 5, 2013

by Douglas Moran

SLR 37mm Lens to iPhone 5 Adapter Kit

Even though I love them, I’ll be the first to admit that lens and other camera adapter equipment looks a little bizarre when mated to a smartphone. In the day, your 35mm SLR camera was a big, bulky sucker. It had heft, size, and throw-weight. So when you hooked up big lenses to it, it [...]

Pandora Available for Windows Phones

I’m not big on Microsoft products in general, and my experience with Windows phone software (back when I had my HTC Universal, the Phone with a Thousand Names) was not a happy one. Power hunger, slow, poor memory management (okay; absolutely horrifically awful memory management); it was quite a disappointment given how much I really [...]

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Crowdfunding March 31, 2013

by Douglas Moran

Devotec Fuel Is the World’s Tiniest Cellphone Charger

One of the big PITAs with modern smartphones that I’m sure you’ve noticed just as much as I have is: They suck power like a toddler sucks down a juice box on a hot day at the park. The iPhone that I keep with me at all times has more computing power, more functionality, and [...]

Anatomy & Physiology REVEALED App Available for Android

I’m pleased to see that some publishing companies are taking up the gauntlet and trying to put out educational material using the powerful capabilities of tablet computers. McGraw-Hill has done so with their new Anatomy & Physiology REVEALED app which, while it has been available via iTunes, is now finally out there for Android, too. [...]

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Music Diary, News March 28, 2013

by Douglas Moran

Experience Rock and Roll Filtered Through Luna Lee’s Korean Sensibilities on Her Gayageum

I never really understood all the fuss over the Gangnam Style videos. Seemed a bit too much like the Lambada craze of the late 90s for my taste, honestly. I’m more of a rock kind of guy. (We will diplomatically ignore my love of Tom Lehrer songs, show tunes, and classical and jazz piano music [...]

Chevy Volt at SXSWi Review

Chevy Volt, loaned to me for the week of South by Southwest Interactive for review purposes When it comes to car reviews, Gear Diary has some experienced people to check things out for you. But this time, neither our intrepid (and superlative) car reviewer David Goodspeed – and how excellent is that a name for a [...]

Braving the Gaming Conference Site to Hear About ComiXology

I’ve been a comic-book reader since way back — I used to own the first Mike Grell issue of “Legion of Super Heroes”, for example (and no, my Mom didn’t throw it out — it’s all my own stupid fault), and am old enough to have been around to get hooked on the X-Men right [...]