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Like a lot of people, I purchased the Lion upgrade on the first day of availability from the Apple App store. I upgraded two late-model Mac Minis along with an older 17” MacBook Pro. The Lion upgrade solved a freezing problem on the Mac Mini I use as an HD-DVR. However, it created a number of serious problems on the
On August 19th I posted about my experience with a TomTom GO 2535 Live 5” Widescreen GPS. After failure of a second unit, an update is in order. To briefly recap, I had purchased it at a Best Buy store in Lincoln, Nebraska. After a little more than a week, the unit spontaneously rebooted and was then stuck in a
US company Booktrack has just released a new concept onto the literary market - ebooks with a sound track. Yes, you read that right, ebooks with a sound track. To quote from their website, "Booktrack represents a new chapter in the evolution of storytelling, and an industry "first" in publishing, by creating synchronized soundtracks for e-books that dramatically boost the
Today, at the IFA trade show, Sony announced their first two tablet computers. The Sony Tablet S and Sony Tablet P are both powered by Android.The Tablet S is available for pre-order today and will ship next month. The Tablet P will be available later this year. The Sony Tablet S has a 9.4 inch screen, NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor,
Ford announces they are adding 2012 Focus and Escapes to Zipcar's fleet in over 250 universities in the US and UK.
Panasonic introduces the Lumix FZ150, HDC-Z10000 and displays a yet-to-be-named 3D camera at IFA 2011.
What do compact fluorescent lights (CFLs), LCD screens, rechargeable batteries, solar cells and integrated circuit packaging all have in common? They're all technologies that the USA can no longer produce within the country itself and must rely on companies in Asia, such as Taiwan and China to manufacturer. The technology has effectively been lost to the US, having migrated from
It's almost my favorite time of the year, otherwise know as football season. And, today Google revealed that all sorts of football information, both NFL and college, is now available right in Google Search Last week Google began bringing MLB results, but football is America's number one sport, so it's nice to see this partnership with ESPN evolve. The simple
Where does Ford think cars will be in the future, that is something that they are answering at the 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show with the announcement of the EVOS concept car. The idea behind the Ford concept is that your car is set to your preferences. It connects to the cloud and can check the weather, traffic, and your work
I give lots of Prizes away and also a chance to win some very exclusive prints from a cool artist. Listen to win and join me for a trip down memory lane, we kick it off old school with some intros that we have used in bygone years. Nearly 7 years of podcasting excellence all made possible by all of
Here in the UK, the big telco is British Telecommunications Ltd., otherwise known as BT. Every few years, it produces a physical telephone directory ("White Pages" for our North American cousins). Each house gets a free copy for the local area. When the directory arrives on my doorstep it goes straight in the (recycling) bin. It's not because paper directories
It's only been a couple weeks, but is it possible HP is rethinking their decision to kill the TouchPad? As they say, money talks, and what happened after HP announced the impending death of the TouchPad? They sold out. Everywhere. Obviously part of that was the suddenly deeply-discounted price. But there's more to the story. Many gleeful geeks looked at
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