2007 was a pretty good year for tech, and PC World has put together a list of what they think were the best 100 products.
Like a lot of what PC World says, some things I agree with and some things I don’t.
In this particular list, I got the feeling that they may have come up [...]
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On December 11, 2007, I posted here that SED televisions were still in trouble and that Canon was reportedly stopping work on technology that would have made manufacturing of SED TV’s less expensive.
Was that the end for SED TV’s? Maybe not.
This is still a rumor right now, but if this story at Bloomberg is correct, [...]
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The next version of the very successful ASUS Eee PC is expected to be announced at CES 2008 opening on January 7, 2008.
According to the Commercial Times (it’s translated from Chinese, so expect a certain amount of poor grammar and unintelligible phrases), a Taiwanese paper with a mediocre reliabiliby rating, the next Eee PC will [...]
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If you’re been on the fence about participating in OLPC’s (One Laptop Per Child) Give One Get One program, today’s the last day to do it.
In case you’re not so familiar with the program, I’ll sum it up: For $399, you can purchase one XO laptop for a child in a developing nation, and OLPC [...]
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According to Valleywag, It looks like when Steve Jobs officially introduces movie rentals from iTunes at Macworld in his keynote on January 15, 2008, Disney and Pixar will be joining Fox as studios that will offer rental content.
This isn’t such a surprise since Steve is Disney’s largest single share holder since Disney acquired his Pixar [...]
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One more day left in 2007 before we roll into 2008, which means if you want/need to make a charitable donation and receive a credit on your taxes you’ve only got one more day to do it.
Don’t have a favorite charity and not sure where to start? Charity Navigator can give you a hand.
Charity Navigator [...]
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Maybe I’m just out of the loop, but I’ve never known what Amazon Prime is. Sure, I’d kinda half-way notice it mentioned on Amazon’s webpage, but I’d never bothered to actually click on it.
I guess I assumed it was a credit card so I ignored it until today.
Turns out it’s actually not a credit card, [...]
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The latest firmware for the Apple iPhone, 1.1.2, was released on November 8, 2007.
A new firmware is expected to drop soon, but has someone gotten their hands on it early and leaked whats new?
It looks that way and there’s even a video at cre.ations.net to show off one of the new features–the ability to re-arrange [...]
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Sometimes taking of screenshot (a picture of what is on your computer screen right now) comes in handy.
Maybe you need it for work to document a process or application.
Maybe you need it at home to show your friend what something looks like.
There are some great applications to help you do this, but if you have [...]
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When I was deciding which Playstation 3 to get (the 40GB or 80GB version) one of the things that pushed me towards the cheaper 40GB version was the fact that the hard drive was user upgradable.
How is the upgrade done?
I didn’t know at the time, but now thanks to a great step-by-step guide at CNET [...]
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