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 [...]
Entries Categorized as 'Operating System'
Android on VirtualBox
June 13, 2010
iPad Eve
April 2, 2010
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 [...]
iPad Joy
March 12, 2010
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 [...]
iPad Lust
January 27, 2010
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 [...]
Using the Kindle DX
August 13, 2009
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 [...]
Did I Jump on the Kindle Too Soon?
July 20, 2009
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 [...]
Why I Bought a Kindle
July 18, 2009
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 Books published on Kindle have DRM, and in years to come when the hardware is obsolete, I may not be able to use the books I’ve bought on this platform.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 [...]
Revving Up Graphics and Virtual Machines
July 8, 2009
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 …
VirtualBox 3.0 Upgrade Joy
July 5, 2009
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 [...]
Cleaning up Video with vReveal
July 3, 2009
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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