Category Archives: Technology

April 18, 2012

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Everyone has weighed in on the iPad 3. Anandtech published the only review that I will recommend. It’s the only iPad review that is a real review covering everything a potential buyer would like to know. I will be speaking in bullets because it’s important to keep this review short. I’ll wrap up with some [...]

April 2, 2012

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When you know every Comcast support prompt, you’ve been on the phone for too long. I called Comcast seven times tonight. Here’s a summary of how the events played out. I don’t pirate content. I’d like to pay for it. So, a year after canceling cable, I’m back. Not because I care about the evening [...]

March 29, 2012

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The iPad is revolutionary according to the marketing teams at Apple. It’s the most intimate computing experience in the world and, as of this writing, it has been 2 years since the original iPad was released and I’ve owned one sine the very beginning. I had my doubts but I justified purchasing one anyway. Then, [...]

March 19, 2012

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This post is for everyone but mostly for GadgetDon who is a friend that I’ve known for 9 years and is an expert in such matters and took my tweets earlier the wrong way. I still encourage everyone to read it. Apple on March 7th: Customers can begin pre-ordering their new iPad today Apple on [...]

March 9, 2012

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All of the iPad chatter this week was less about the specs of this new tablet. Everyone seemed convinced that Apple’s choice to simply call it, “The new iPad” was both strange and wonderful. Haters and fans came out to express their opinion. Apple doesn’t call it new “The new iPad” because everywhere I look [...]

February 16, 2012

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One year ago, I decided to spend $119 and be a part of the growing number of baseball fans who subscribe to a service that provides thousands of games to your television and devices via the web with no commercial breaks and DVR capabilities. It was my way of watching every San Francisco Giants game [...]

February 8, 2012

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CNN Money describes how US based mobile operators are suffering from slimmer margins following the iPhone: AT&T (T, Fortune 500) and Sprint suffered an even worse fate. AT&T posted a stunning 28.7% EBITDA service margin last quarter, compared with 37.6% a year earlier. One contributing factor: AT&T sold nearly twice as many iPhones as Verizon last quarter. After selling [...]

February 3, 2012

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When thinking about video games, we usually think about Microsoft’s Xbox or Sony’s Playstation. When it comes to online videos of cats and people falling down stairs, YouTube is the first thing that pops into our heads. There was a time when the video games and online videos were so separate, both were rarely present [...]

January 18, 2012

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Steve Jobs, “The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And I don’t mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don’t think of original ideas, and they don’t bring much culture into their products.” These two [...]

January 13, 2012

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Wes Anderson is back with a new film and it looks fantastic! I believe to like Wes Anderson you must be a hipster but I don’t care. These films are so great. I may do a WA marathon this weekend while I’m on the last 3 days of my fast. Rushmore to Darjeeling Limited. The [...]