Well, probably not, but as soon as I posted my query about whether or not to cancel my order for a Kindle DX, I got an email announcing that my order would be shipping sooner than expected. It’s actually been shipped now, expected to arrive Monday, so it’s too late to cancel it. Thanks to [...]

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It now appears to be if not official, then at least pretty credible. Apple will have a tablet within months, possibly before Christmas, and it will have color, and apps, and shiny, oh my! Now I have a problem. I ordered a Kindle DX a couple of weeks ago. Naturally, I’d rather have this new [...]

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Right now I’m deep in the throes of writing a term paper for my summer online grad school class on Online Journalism, but I just came across an interesting and pertinent blog post about social media and other Web 2.0 technologies as they relate to the future of higher educational institutions. Enjoy! And I’ll be [...]

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Just today there was an announcment from Barnes & Noble about a new eBook reader they will be selling, made by Plastic Logic. I’ve already downloaded B&N’s iPhone app, which sits next to Kindle for iPhone in my reading apps page. They have matching apps for Blackberry, Mac and PCs as well. But I don’t [...]

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I have been resisting the Kindle ever since it was introduced. Of course, I had lots of good reasons. Books published on Kindle have DRM, and in years to come when the hardware is obsolete, I may not be able to use the books I’ve bought on this platform. The Kindle itself is not the [...]

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I was chatting with a friend on Twitter tonight, and happened to mention the Kira Café, an institute in Second Life. It has been some time since I visited Kira, and since their Play As Being group meets four times a day, around the clock, I decided to drop in and say hello, even though [...]

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Working on a forthcoming review of vReveal video enhancment software (for Windows®) has led me to learn more about both Graphical Processing Units (GPUs) and virtual machine (VM) applications …

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In my quest to get vReveal video enhancement software to run in Windows® on a virtual machine (VM), I installed the newly-released VirtualBox 3.0 VM application update on my 24-inch iMac yesterday. The problem I was trying to correct is that the video card emulator in VirtualBox 1.5 was not up to handling a high-end [...]

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I have a chance to review a new, specialized video editing tool called vReveal, just in time to try to fix up some of the shaky vids I’m making with my new iPhone 3GS. But there’s a catch. vReveal is a MS-Windows® program. Normally this would not be a problem, since I have Windows XP [...]

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Oh, yes! This one could be really fun for bloggers and their readers, since a window into the world can be embedded in any web page. I’m talking about Metaplace, the latest in a long list of VWs (virtual worlds) I’ve dabbled in. My account (name: KatLemieux) is only a few hours old, so there’s [...]

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