After several years as a loyal HTC phone user, I made the jump this morning to a Motorola phone: the RAZR M ( Read more... )

Twenty months ago, I purchased the HTC Eris. Tomorrow, I'll receive my new HTC Incredible 2, so the Eris will soon be powered down for the last time -- at least until I pass it along to my daughter ( Read more... )

During the holidays, my brother gifted me with a copy of Dark Star One. When scorpionis saw that I got a new game, she cried out in joy, "Thank the Gods! Now maybe he'll stop playing Freelancer!"

Then I showed her the game. "No, honey. This is the sequel."

DS1 isn't a traditional sequel in which the same people or company produce another updated version ( Read more... )

One of the nicest technology shifts I've encountered in a while has been Bluetooth technology. This is basically radio-frequency, wireless network protocol with a 10m broadcasting radius, so it's low power and surprisingly fast. Now that things are starting to appear with Bluetooth at standard commodity rates, it's actually affordable to use it ( Read more... )

I was not dissatisfied with my old phone -- I hadn't thought to update it. It dropped calls and occasionally refused to work in certain parts of the house. The pictures it took were so crummy that I never bothered to use the camera feature. I bought a headset for hands-free use (logging into a failing server while the client has you on the phone is ( Read more... )

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I had been waiting for the news that Palm, Inc. was being sold to Sony or Apple. While they had been cutting edge for a while, their flagship PDA-phone has been taking a beating in the market, and the plain PDA market has shriveled up. Even the venerable Palm OS has been sold off and will likely be phased out in favor of a linux-based PDA OS like ( Read more... )

Google Earth has got to be absolutely the biggest timewaster I've come across since Freelancer. I'm totally out of control on this. Must. Remember. To. Eat.Ten years ago, I had a fetish for maps. Now, they have become a significant component of my life. I read historical atlases for pleasure, and delight in locating obscure geographical features. ( Read more... )

Wow. Austin street view maps

This is really cool. Info here.

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