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Entries Categorized as 'Software'

Android on VirtualBox

Date June 13, 2010

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 [...]

Rapid Prototyping

Date May 12, 2010

Using a 3D virtual world is not often the first impulse of building designers and architects, but maybe it should be. Here’s one snapshot of a house that was designed in about four hours, right down to the hanging plants on the loggia. Clicking the image will download a presentation (PDF, about 11.5 MB) with [...]

Down with Flash

Date April 23, 2010

If you pay attention to the widgets in the right column of this blog, and if you’ve visited this site in the past few days, you might have noticed I’ve replaced a cute, star-spangled “countdown” widget with one that is less glitzy, but more accurate. Another positive aspect of the new “iPad Delivery Countdown” timer [...]

iPad Eve

Date 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

Date 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

Date 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 [...]

Revving Up Graphics and Virtual Machines

Date 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

Date 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

Date 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 [...]

Testing 1, 2, 3

Date June 29, 2009

I’ve been trying to help a friend troubleshoot her blog’s visitor counter today. She’s using Blogger, which I hadn’t tried before, so to be accurate in my suggestions, I created a dummy blog and tried installing several counters on it. My results were somewhat mixed. I could not duplicate the counter error she’d seen, but [...]