Isn’t Life Strange?

I’m a fan of coffee. Having a fresh cup of tasty coffee is probably my most favorite simple pleasure in life.
That’s why I decided to invest in a Keurig coffee brewer about six months ago. Sure, it’s an expensive way to have coffee, but I will say that the coffee tastes very good and […]

I just love the iPhone. Sure, there are other smartphones that can essentially do many of the same tasks, like email, web browsing, playing audio or video files, or interacting with Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter, but the iPhone is the current king when it comes to providing users with unique and useful applications for just […]

The last few weeks have seen quite a few interesting developments and announcements in web technology and gadgetry. Here are a few that have caught my eye.
The Palm Pre is the most significant product designed by Palm since… well, a long, long time ago. Abandoning the years-old Palm OS, Palm’s hail-Mary effort to design […]

I needed to provide a quick addendum to last night’s long post in which I reviewed several radio apps available for the Apple iPhone.
It must be noted that if you wish to use your iPhone as a radio, battery life will be a concern due to the demand that network communications places on […]

As a new user of the iPhone 3G, I have to say that it is one of the most remarkable pieces of personal electronics I have ever used. Much has been said about the device before, so I won’t give my personal impressions other than to say that it works very well for me. […]

Being the gadget geek that I am, I could not resist the very reasonable $130 price tag on the new Samsung Instinct phone from Sprint.  I’ve owned this nice little phone for about a month now and have a few impressions that I would like to pass along.  Much has been said about the Instinct […]

No other operating system has been criticized like Microsoft’s Windows Vista.  Much of it is well-deserved, as Microsoft’s "Upgradable to Windows Vista" fiasco irritated a lot of people who shelled out thousands of dollars on hardware only to find out that the upgrade wasn’t as seamless as they were led to believe. 
Ever since Vista’s […]

Thanks to my friend Dave, who blogs at DeckMonster.com (not that anyone would know it lately!), I am now addicted to another toy on the Internet. 
Dave has introduced me to many good things over the years, including TiVo, the music of Barenaked Ladies, Thai food, "burritos as big as your head", NetVibes, more video […]

I haven’t used Twitter in over three weeks, but apparently the folks there are having some stability issues with the system and subscribers may be getting restless. 
There’s an article over at Cnet News about Twitter’s problems, the challenges of dealing with the growing user base, the debate over the inevitability of failure, and the […]

Although I have only sent two tweets (messages), I can see the potential in Twitter.  
Essentially, Twitter is what you make of it.  The basic concept is that users have a limit of 140 characters in which to leave a message that they want others to read.  Think of it as a miniature blog.  Members […]

I decided that I would go ahead and join Twitter. For those of you who don’t know anything about it, Twitter is sort of the text message equivalent of blogging. When you twitter, you are limited to very short messages - I’ll explain more later.
I will probably end up adding […]

Since 2002, I’ve been enjoying the wonder of TiVo, the most user-friendly, feature-rich digital video recorder on the market.  Since that time, my VCR has never been used, and my television viewing experience has improved significantly. 
Sadly, after six years of loyal service, my TiVo stopped working last night.  Here’s what happened…
As I retired […]

Baggers restaurant in Nuremberg is the home of an interesting concept in dining - automation. 
Imagine going to a restaurant that works without any human interaction.  It works like this - You find a table, select your order on a touch-screen display, slide your payment card into the slot, and the freshly-prepared food is delivered […]

I updated my older version of Windows Messenger today and the installation gave me some options to install some programs that are part of Microsoft’s Windows Live family.  I downloaded a few of them that seemed interesting to me, including Windows Live Photo Gallery, Windows Live Mail, and Windows Live Writer. 

Windows Live Writer is […]