Last year I purchased two Kindle Fires for the family to use. The UI could be just a little bit/slow twitchy at times, but never so much to make you put the device down. Looking at the usage over a year it was mostly games mostly played by kids followed by movies from Amazon Prime. […]
Read more "Phones, Tablets, and Even Windows 8"I’ve been living with my Mac Air for a few weeks now, thought I’d share some quick thoughts: I miss the backspace key/behavior. Air only has the delete key. I miss the right click button. And I miss the home/end keys. Two finger scrolling is natural, I find myself trying to do it on the […]
Read more "More Thoughts on the Mac Air"In my Three Strikes post I wrapped up the sorry tale of trying to get an X1 Carbon delivered from Lenovo. The day after I cancelled I did get an email indicating it was going to be delayed another 30 days. I’m hoping that is just due to two separate systems not being quite in […]
Read more "Mac Daddy!"It’s been not quite two years since I moved from a Blackberry to a Droid X. The X turned out to be a good phone and a good device overall, and I enjoyed the large screen, a big change from the postage stamp display on the Blackberry. Other than wanting a phone with 4G I […]
Read more "Moving from Droid X to Droid Razr Maxx"I blogged a while back about not having the ability to easily disable purchasing on the Kindle. Until recently we managed ok, but then my youngest child started clicking on the ‘not-free’ games to the tune of about $100 in a day. I can live with the occasional $1.99 purchase, but those $19.99 games add […]
Read more "Kindle Fire Parental Controls"I’ve had my Dell E6500 for about 3-1/2 years now. I’ve recently upgraded the original (back when a SSD was a new thing) 64G drive to a 128G SSD, but otherwise spent no money on it. Good machine. Over the last couple months battery life has seemed to drop off, a 100% charge seems like […]
Read more "Battery Life–The Hidden Cost of Keeping a Laptop"Good discussion of how USB charging works.
Read more "Link: How USB Charging Works"I’ve managed to get by for more than 3 years with the original 64G SSD in my laptop, but lately I found myself having to prune things to keep getting by. Pruning isn’t bad, actually good to do, but a pain to be forced into it. I decided to look at upgrading, both to have […]
Read more "A New SSD For My Laptop"It’s back with a slightly different format this time, 28 hours of seminars delivered over two days, and it’s all free! Watch one, or watch them all, it’s a great collection of talent and I think you’ll find it worth your time. In particular I’ll be attending to watch a presentation on statistics by Kevin […]
Read more "24 (28) Hours of PASS on Sep 15, 2010"
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