If you are a returning visitor to this site, you may have noticed that I am doing a bit of rearranging in the sidebar, inserting a few ads, removing some obsolete widgets, etc. In the process of evaluating things to delete, I clicked on the Alltop link, and proceeded to get lost in reading some [...]

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Tomorrow people who preordered the WiFi-only version of iPad will be lining up at their local Apple stores, or waiting impatiently for FedEx to deliver their new Unicorn. As I’ve said before, I opted to wait for the WiFi + 3G version, so it will be a few more weeks before that happy day for [...]

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Well, I did it. I stayed up all night reading techie news and following the iPad chatter on Twitter, then promptly at 7:30 a.m. local time (we’re in Central Time zone at the moment), I pulled up the Apple Store website and placed my order for a 32GB iPad + 3G. So now the wait [...]

Posted in AT&T, eBook reader, eBooks, iPad, Kindle, Tablet, Twitter, Verizon, Virtual Machine, WiFi, Windows 7, wireless 5 Comments »

After watching the live feeds of today’s Apple iPad announcement, audio/video from Leo Leporte’s Twit, and live blogging by Gizmodo and Engadget (both of which crashed their servers from time to time), I have to have one! As expected, Apple blew away the competition. My KindleDX is now obsolete (not that I was ever really [...]

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So, I’ve had my Kindle DX eReader for about 10 days now, and it’s time to write about the experience. Overall my reaction is positive, but there are a few weak points that diminish my euphoria with the device. First, there is the screen itself. It is not paper-white at all. The contrast is rather [...]

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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 Books published on Kindle have DRM, and in years to come when the hardware is obsolete, I may not be able to use the books I’ve bought on this platform.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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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 …

Posted in 3D, Computers, emulator, Hardware, Linux, Models, OpenSolaris, Software, video card, Video editing, Virtual Machines, Virtual Worlds, Windows 7 No Comments »

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 [...]

Posted in audio, Computers, drivers, iPhone, MacOS X, Open Source, Operating System, smartphones, sound card, video card, Video editing, Virtual Machine, Windows 7, WindowsXP 2 Comments »