Home video these days is a misnomer. The video we shoot ourselves is better termed “personal video” since we now are able to shoot video anywhere we go with our cell phones. I shot video of my dog at the dog park this past weekend. I used my iPhone 4 to take the video, and [...]
I’ve been reading more information about the new, upcoming Mac App Store. As with the iOS App Store, Apple will be exerting much control. So, while developers will enjoy the massive audience boost the App Store will give them, they will also have to deal with Apple’s notoriously tight controls. I do find this new [...]
Apple has announced a new update to Mac OS X, version 10.7. Going with the familiar cat-themed names, it will be called Lion. The operating system update was just the tip of the iceberg, however. The MacBook Air, iLife Suite, FaceTime for Mac and a new Mac App Store were big announcements yesterday. I think [...]
Microsoft is getting ready to release their new Windows Phone 7 OS. The first devices running this new OS will hit the streets in Europe on November 7 and in the United States on November 8. Hopefully they have learned from the folly of Windows Mobile. They seem to have finally learned that you can’t [...]
You don’t hear much about iPod “killers” anymore. The two main reasons for this is Apple’s devouring of that market, and the shift to mobile phones doubling as portable media players. The current market war is for smartphones. There is no clear leader, but there are some dominant players: Apple, Research In Motion (Blackberry) and [...]
One of the most tiring rumors is the iPhone to Verizon story. This rumor has been going on since the first iteration of the device. Even though the rumor has never been proven true, people still believe that a Verizon iPhone is just around the corner. I seriously doubt there will be a Verizon iPhone [...]
Apple and Google have both released set top boxes. They both aim to change the way we watch television. Which one wins? That depends. They both enable you to watch online video, but in much different ways. Google aims to do it all. It will allow you to search tv listings, and will eventually have [...]
To start things off, let’s go ahead and acknowledge the obvious: texting while driving is really dumb. It’s even more so with more and more touchscreen phones being used. Many states have enacted laws banning the practice. Now, we have the results of a study to determine the effectiveness of the ban. The results weren’t [...]
Content creators and the public that purchases that content is now embroiled in a constant back and forth over whom that content belongs to. This is not something that would have come up 10 to 15 years ago. Most of the goods we purchased were physical items. Now that much of the entertainment content we [...]
We get new gadgets just about every quarter. There are probably four rumored to every one actually announced. Let’s go over some of the recent items in the news. Apple updated it’s Apple TV set top to be more of a streaming device. It’s also got a new black outside finish instead of the aluminum [...]