Category Archives: technology
Typing on the iPhone
I’ll admit that one reason I decided to try and blog some more was because WordPress released an iPhone app and in order to try it I needed to blog. Well here I am blogging from my iPhone. It’s pretty … Continue reading
iPhone Likes
Okay, so the battery life stinks. I’ll deal with it. I do think the iPhone interface is pretty cool. It took me a day or two to get the hang of it. I still catch myself searching for some kind … Continue reading
My iPhone
I’m a dork so I got an iPhone. My cell phone history goes something like this: Some brick-sized clunker from Sprint a million years ago. A StarTAC from Verizon. That phone was awesome. I had about four of them (one … Continue reading
XO Cool
Yesterday we got our laptop and I had a chance to play with it a bit last night. Pretty dang cool! It’s not the fastest thing in the world (I think it’s not quite as slow as my TiVo but … Continue reading
Email Support, Not Provided
I’m having problems with my TiVoHD unit (second unit, same problems). After tinkering with things I finally decided to go to TiVo for help. While I was bummed to see that they don’t offer support via email (“at this time”), … Continue reading
Computerworld’s Rock Stars
There’s a new Computerworld article out about Rock Star Coders. Several folks at Viget talked with Mary Brandel, the author of the article, about the concept of rock star coders. Our connection to the “phenomenon” is that Emily used the … Continue reading
Progress of Technology
We don’t watch tons of TV in our family, but we don’t totally avoid it either. As a technology guy I probably have more TV related toys than I can justify considering the amount of TV we watch. My daughter, … Continue reading
Kids and Technology
I’m pretty handy when it comes to technology but I also understand that there’s no way to stay ahead of kids. My grandparents never figured out how to set the clock on their VCR. I’m sure when I’m a grandparent … Continue reading
Content Aware Image Resizing
This is pretty dang cool. I’m not how often people would actually manually resize an image by dragging its corner but certainly the ability to dynamically resize an image for different devices would be very useful. It will also be … Continue reading
The Future of TV
No, I don’t know the future of TV – but I have some ideas. When Verizon came out to my house a couple of years ago to hook up my FiOS service I think I started to get a hint … Continue reading