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I have been really loving the Android-based T-Mobile myPhone, I’ve gotta say. Okay, the name is kind of dorky, but the phone has been awesome. I’ve slowly gotten used to the soft keyboard, although I’ll never be as fast or accurate with it as a real keyboard. But this is the first phone I’ve had [...]

I love typing test games… here’s a pretty simple one. Actually it is more of a straight-forward test than a game. Give it a shot!
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I find myself using the Google Chrome web browser more and more these days. I downloaded it just to have a look, and what was immediately obvious was how fast the darn thing is. It is fast to start up, and fast to load a page. Literally, while my PC is booting into Windows XP, I [...]

CNet has a piece up today about the closing of Virgin Megastore. Here in San Francisco, Virgin is at a major intersection, so its disappearance will leave a gaping hole in the storefront cityscape. At the opposite end of the same block is the other gaping hole, where CompUSA once stood.
We went into Virgin this [...]

Texas Instruments has a pretty entertaining series of videos up on their website, called “Thank an Engineer”. I realized long ago that the engineering gene has pervaded by entire being – I can’t go near something that is broken without wanting to fix it, or near any non-optimal hardware solution (squeaky door, slightly askew [...]

Today I heard that LinkedIn now has applications. My first thought was: “Oh greeeeat, pretty soon it’ll look like facebook.”
But the good news is, they have a very small set of apps that so far, seem quite well thought out. In particular I like the SixApart application, BlogLink. It says that it [...]

I just bought a USB floppy drive from OfficeDepot, so that I’d have a convincingly working, fast floppy drive to use to go through about 100 old 3.5″ floppies I found hanging around in a box when I moved. The floppies were packed next to about 20 Iomega ZIP disks and a NeXT magneto-optical [...]

As I grow older I get more and more interested in what people like me would have geeked out about in their era: whether it be blacksmithing, horse carriages, cars, planes, or whatever. This video was fun to watch this morning, it is a collection of interesting wacky inventions from the 1930’s. Check [...]

I just read that Esquire magazine’s 75th Anniversary issue will have an E-Ink cover that should animate for several months. Here is a video of what the cover will look like:

Pretty amazing stuff! I can’t wait until all magazine’s ship with E-Ink. Oh wait… maybe I can. Can you imagine an [...]

This made me laugh – and watch! The Nokia N-Gage website just started a series of videos called “Sauna Talk”, where the head of developer product management for Nokia interviews developers about tools, APIs, and SDKs – in the sauna! Since Nokia is a Finnish company, this makes more sense than you might [...]