Category: Opinion
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Three essential PDF readers for iPad
A while ago I wrote about ways to read PDF files on your iPod Touch, iPhone or iPad. Well that post is showing it’s age, so rather than completely redo it, I thought I’d discuss my current three top PDF readers, and why. GoodReader GoodReader is my first choice, go-to PDF reader on my iPad. First off,…
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Need a mic? Find a Yeti.
In the last few years it’s gotten a bit easier to use a microphone to record audio on your home computer — USB headsets with quality microphones have been available for a while, but only recently have USB desktop microphones oved out of the niche and specialty retailers into the mainstream, driven mostly by the…
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Boppin’ with the BeBot!
iPad music and synth apps all seem to be trying to exactly replicate the experience of using a real synthesizer or instrument, like Virtuoso Piano 3 . Recently I discovered BeBot, an iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad music app that breaks that stereotype. According to the developer, BeBot is: …Part synthesizer, part animated robot. Touching the screen causes the robot to…
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My top Apps of 2010
Everyone’s got a Top ‘something’ of the year list, so I thought I’d jump in with my picks for Top Apps of 2010 — with a little twist; only one app, per platform, amongst the 3 platforms I use (Windows, iOS (iPad), and Internet). Yes, Internet, for my purposes is a platform — it’s mostly…
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Kodak All-in-One is awesome asset in the digital darkroom
“Man that sucker’s huge”, was my first thought as I unboxed Kodak’s new flagship All-In-One photo printer. But that stands to reason, as the Kodak ESP 9250 All-in One Printer (henceforth known as ‘the 9250’ or ‘Kodak Unit’), does a lot more than just print. And that’s why it’s so hard to write about these Swiss…
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Commerce in a post-Wikileaks economy
You’ve likely seen the news that Visa, Mastercard, PayPal and others are under distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks by folk who feel that WikiLeaks headman Julian Assange is being persecuted for distributing sensitive information he...
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Print? Scan? Copy? Fax? It’s covered!
Recently I had an opportunity to put one of the new Brother multi-function printer devices through it’s paces, and overall, I liked what I saw.Priced as an entry level unit, the Brother MFC-J615W (that’s a mouthful, why can’t they...
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I read the news today (oh boy)
If you’ve been without power and not heard the news today, The Beatles music library is now available from Apple’s iTunes store for download. Joy. No, I’m not overly enthused by this, as I already own digital copies of all the Beatles music that I’m interested in. I bought them on CD years ago, and…
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Saving time with Text Replacement utilities
I write a lot. Blog posts, proposals, reports, reviews, email…you get the picture. Often times I end up creating new documents that share similar format or content, and I cut-and-paste from older docs into newer ones. But I’m lazy, and always looking for easier ways to get the job done… I’m Lazy Over the past year…
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Best Skins Ever — Perhaps
I’m a bit prissy when it comes to my display screens on my mobile devices and technology. I like putting screen scratch protectors on them. To protect them. To give me the peace-of-mind that they’ll survive the harsh treatment they get in my various bags and packs, and that the protector, not the screen, will…
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Dilemma: Offloading old tech
Ok, so here’s the deal. You want a new computer, or iPad, or BluRay player or whatever. But your old one is still working perfectly fine. Yet, the features of your next technological acquisition are so good, so cool, that really, that new tech item will make your life much better. Great, so you go…