12 July 2011 1 Comment

I bet you won’t cancel your Netflix.

The Netflix backlash today is insane! I am still baffled as to what people are so upset about. The simple version: You used to pay $9.99 for DVDs by mail. Then, Netflix decided to add a feature to their service: streaming video. This service was absolutely free to paying customers. I have to believe this [...]

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2 July 2011 2 Comments

It *would* be great….for $149. HP Touchpad.

It *would* be great….for $149. HP Touchpad.

  Well, I went to see it in person, and after trying very hard to keep my expectations very low, I was still somehow disappointed. It pains me to say it; I want WebOS to survive in the worst way, but sadly this launch (if you can even call it a launch) did nothing but [...]

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19 June 2011 0 Comments

Photo Apps: iOS Edition

I have done this for various platforms, and now it’s time for an updated iOS edtion of what I currently use and think are the best photography related apps! I currently have 30+ photography related apps on my phone. Here are a few of my favorites in no particular order.     (Click on the [...]

17 June 2011 0 Comments

Battery Life: It’s about damn time!

Everyone’s universal complaint about smartphones? Battery life! It’s a sad but true fact that we have been conditioned to think that if a phone gets 8 hours of battery life, that is “good”. That is not good, it is crap. My worst battery life experience was the Samsung Charge, which I returned because of this. [...]

14 May 2011 0 Comments

Samsung Charge (I have signal again!) *UPDATE* Phone = returned.

Well after a brief 5 month stint on T-mobile, I have now left. According to them, they have “the worlds’s largest 4G network”, but according to me, their network sucks. I was using the kick ass Samsung Nexus S on T-mobile; everything about the phone was fantastic, except the carrier it was on. I found [...]

1 May 2011 0 Comments

Quick Hands On: Blackberry Playbook

We were in an Office Depot yesterday to drop off some packages to be mailed  when I happened to see a display for the Blackberry Playbook. I had seen many online reviews for the tablet but hadn’t actually seen one in the wild yet. We took the opportunity to go check it out and play [...]

10 April 2011 0 Comments

Olympus E-P2 vs. Panasonic GF1

As you may or may not know, I made the decision to switch from using dSLR cameras to the world of Micro Four Thirds. After doing quite a bit of research on various brands and models, I ended up purchasing the Olympus E-P2. The E-P2 is a really great camera; unfortunately it was the wrong [...]

31 March 2011 0 Comments

Make your own CR-48! ChromeOS Netbook.

Since Google decided to not send me a ChromeOS CR-48 notebook, I had to make my own! (I still REALLY want a CR-48) The Hardware I picked up a super cheap Acer Aspire One over at Fry’s. Model:  D255E Processor: 1.66GHz dual core Atom Memory: 1GB (upgraded to 2GB for $23 from amazon) All together [...]

7 March 2011 0 Comments

Rooting around in my Nexus S.

Well, It finally happened. My Nexus S was working too perfectly, so I had to go ahead and root it and load a custom ROM. :) Here is a quick little how-to of what I did to make it all work. All files are linked below. This is not a final release of CyanogenMod 7, [...]