Lit Keys
Aug 5, 2010
I love my new Samsung Moment smart phone, but there is one little annoyance with it that has been driving me crazy. When using the slideout keyboard, the backlighting on the keyboard goes out after about two seconds, which makes typing blog posts and text messages in low light quite aggravating. After struggling with this [...]
Pandora on your smart phone
Jul 14, 2010
A while back I wrote about the wonderful Internet radio service Pandora, and after all this time I still love it. Even better, I’m now able to listen to my favorite Pandora radio stations on my Android based smart phone. I simply visited the “Market”, searched for “Pandora”, and boom, there was an excellent app [...]
WordPress for Android
Jul 10, 2010
A few days ago I purchased a Samsung Moment smart phone to use to post to my WordPress blogs while away from my PC, and I love it. But early on I discovered that the WordPress “Add Post” screen was a nightmare to use on a small screen. Just when I had become almost frustrated [...]
My new Samsung Moment smart phone
Jul 7, 2010
When it came time to replace my aging LG Rumor I decided to move up to a “smart phone” with a larger screen which would allow me to post to my WordPress blog while away from my PC. After doing a bit of shopping around I decided to give the Samsung Moment a try. The [...]
RIP: The floppy disk officially passes away
Apr 27, 2010
After decades of storing data for millions of computer users world-wide, the floppy disk is now officially dead. Sony has announced that they will no longer manufacture the disks, effectively bringing an end to one of the computer world’s most memorable eras. The floppy has been on life support ever since Dell and other PC manufacturers [...]
Is Wi-Fi the future of high speed Internet?
Apr 14, 2010
For some time now cable and DSL providers have had a virtual monopoly on high speed Internet service in many of the areas they do business in, but that could soon change in a big way. Many cities and towns are experimenting with municipality-wide Wi-Fi coverage, and a large number of them are providing the service [...]
Batteries that are designed to fail
Apr 10, 2010
Have you ever noticed how the expensive Lithium-Ion batteries that power many of today’s gadgets seem to wear out long before the devices themselves? Well, as it turns out that’s by design. Many modern batteries are controlled by a chip that’s programmed to render the battery incapable of properly holding a charge after a certain number of charge/discharge cycles. [...]
ColorGrab 2.0
Mar 29, 2010
If you’re a web developer you have probably seen a color on the screen that you would like to replicate on a website, but you had no easy way to determine the hexadecimal code for the color in question. Well, a nifty little utility called ColorGrab solves that problem once and for all! ColorGrab is extremely [...]
