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  • Tablet device coming early next year

    True to form, Apple is keeping a tight lid on their Mac Tablet. But all rumors are pointing to a release early in 2010. The announcement of the device may come in September of this year at the point where new iPod products are announced. Other scuttle-butt indicates Verizon may be providing it’s Fourth Generation…

  • links for 2009-07-25

    Rockets Missiles Historic record of test launches at Cape Canaveral (tags: space)

  • Web Applications for cheapskates

    I know some people prefer to buy desktop single purpose applications. I certainly do. But others discover ‘neat’ or ‘cute’ or ‘kewl’ web apps that mimic some of the functionality of their desktop brethren. What is out there? What can you use that’s free? Or is there truly no free lunch.

  • My love letter to Public Television

    Nothing I have ever done or will ever do could come close to matching what PBS has done for millions of American kids and now adults. We came to TV just after Newton N. Minow indicted commercial television producers in May 1961 at the National Association of Broadcasters. And we reaped the benefits I think…

  • Email support vs. Trouble Ticket

    Workflow is a very personal thing no matter what job you work in. Computer software or Database support is an odd field to work in, making the workflow issue even more pressing. We adapt, we adopt whatever works to communicate the problem to someone else who will fix the problem. But often that thing that…

  • Apple lineup: The Netbook is already here.

    Say you that own a cell phone and you’re already an AT&T subscriber. You envy all your friends who have purchased iPhones, but you know AT&T forces you to buy a pretty substantial data plan to connect that iPhone to the Internet where you may roam. That’s bee the single biggest deal breaker for me…

  • New Intel Flash drives coming soon

    Intel is finally going to ramp up it’s newest production lines to include Flash memory chips, thereby shrinking the design rules down to 34nm. Density of the new Flash memory chips is going to allow even larger Solid State Drives (SSD) and in some cases the prices may be less for the newer drives than…

  • Augmented Reality – NYTimes.com

    Local Knowledge is near and dear to the hearts of many a traveler. Along with dead reckoning and luck, someone could light out for the territories and have an adventure or two. Nowadays with the military industrial complex letting its technologies trickle down to the civilian population we can all benefit from the GPS satellite…

  • links for 2009-07-17

    The Tangled Chain Someone Else Weaves (and then YOU have to undo) How do you do support for computer stuff (tags: support heldesk dandube)

  • Email is crap: The past is yours, the future’s mine!

    Human-Machine Interaction is one of those multi-disciplinary fields that tries to adapt things to the way people work. Whether that’s User Interfaces or physical knobs and levers or design metaphors, the goal is to make the thing more useful. When a command-line interface was the only way to make a desktop computer do useful things,…