Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

Feed readers

13 February 2010

Do you visit mine every week—or even every day (or more!)—just to see if there’s anything there? Then you’re wasting your time!

If you read anything else on the Internet besides my blog, you might want to look at Google Reader. Have you noticed that a blog is just a collection of individual posts that are date-stamped and filed into categories? Google Reader can give you these individual posts as updates. You won’t miss anything, and you won’t waste your time visiting all those sites, only to find that most of them haven’t been updated. […]

Isn’t the iPad just an oversized iPod touch?

3 February 2010

Short answer: Pretty much. It’s just the ‘just’ I don’t agree with. The iPad is pretty much a big iPod touch—and that’s exactly what it should be.

After all, what prevents people from using the iPod touch as their everyday computing device? The major reason is the screen size. […]

Why the iPad will be a success

29 January 2010

Unless you’ve been living in a cave, you’ve undoubtedly heard about Apple’s spanking-new device: the iPad. And while this is one of the most hyped products ever—people have anticipated it possibly more than the iPhone—some have their doubts about it, even calling it an iDud. Just because they won’t be getting one. […]

Lala

18 January 2010

If you’re using Pandora a lot, heres another music service you might like: Lala.

Not to be confused with Lulu, the self-publishing service, Lala is a site that allows one to: […]

Pandora

10 August 2009

Pandora is an Internet radio station that plays only music that you should like, based on your music profile. Based on a comprehensive analysis of music, Pandora accurately matches songs similar to the user’s taste.

Hyphenation

7 August 2009

Often, when you read a website, the page has one of two problems: either the text is too wide or the text is too narrow. Here’s how to solve at least one of those problems when reading material on the Web.