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  • The Windows 8 Consumer Preview has given all of us a much clearer picture of what Microsoft has in store for its next-generation operating system. This time around, it truly is “next-generation;” in fact, it’s the biggest change since DOS grew a GUI. Already, the spectrum of responses have ranged from gushing love to seething hatred — with plenty of room for gray-area confusion in the middle. Let’s take a quick look at five of the biggest reasons why Windows 8 is (or will be) a success, followed by another five indications that Redmond has made a terrible mistake. And keep in mind we’ve still got at least half a year before the finished product.

    The Best and Worst of Windows 8 Consumer Preview

    Posted on March 12, 2012 | No Comments
    The Windows 8 Consumer Preview has given all of us a much clearer picture of what Microsoft has in store for its next-generation operating system. This time around, it truly is “next-generation;” in fact, it’s the biggest change since DOS grew a GUI. Already, the spectrum of responses have ranged from gushing love to seething hatred — with plenty of room for gray-area confusion in the middle. Let’s take a quick look at five of the biggest reasons why Windows 8 is (or will be) a success, followed by another five indications that Redmond has made a terrible mistake. And keep in mind we’ve still got at least half a year before the finished product.

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  • Leave it to Google to keep changing how they integrate services… the Android Market  is being changed over to Google Play. As everyone knows, the android market had evolved to include electronic books, music, videos, but the android market has really become something much more for Google and the Android platform. Now they’re pushing the boundaries even further, adopting some of the same features and functions that were touted with the Kindle Fire, and the mixing that with some of what Apple is doing with the iCloud. Over the past couple of months, is below changes with Google, with their services, with their privacy settings, and with their new initiative to have cloud storage; this is a result of that effort. Movies that you watch, songs that you purchase and books that you read with the Android operating system will now be synchronized in the cloud.

    Evolving: Google Market is now Google Play…

    Posted on March 8, 2012 | No Comments
    Leave it to Google to keep changing how they integrate services… the Android Market  is being changed over to Google Play. As everyone knows, the android market had evolved to include electronic books, music, videos, but the android market has really become something much more for Google and the Android platform. Now they’re pushing the boundaries even further, adopting some of the same features and functions that were touted with the Kindle Fire, and the mixing that with some of what Apple is doing with the iCloud. Over the past couple of months, is below changes with Google, with their services, with their privacy settings, and with their new initiative to have cloud storage; this is a result of that effort. Movies that you watch, songs that you purchase and books that you read with the Android operating system will now be synchronized in the cloud.

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  • Does anyone remember the early days of HBO and Showtime? When cable start presenting the services; man everyone thought it was awesome, playing movies all the time with no commercials, no editing, and getting new movies every month— always getting like two to five movies a month, per channel… Back then it was pretty cool. But that was back in the early-80s… Once the newness of movie services like HBO and Showtime wore off, other movie services started popping up, showing the same movies in the same reruns and then one day, almost out of the blue, HBO and Showtime started coming up with their own original content. They started making their own movies and their own miniseries. The reason I’m mentioning this is because I’m a Netflix customer and over the last two months I noticed that I’m not really getting a lot of new releases, and I’m not getting a lot of new content that I’m finding interesting. My son loves the service because he can watch cartoons and kid shows on demand, but for something other than kid shows I’m not really finding a lot of stuff it’s interesting. I would’ve assumed that anything that I can...

    The Netflix Syndrome: Not enough new content

    Posted on February 22, 2012 | No Comments
    Does anyone remember the early days of HBO and Showtime? When cable start presenting the services; man everyone thought it was awesome, playing movies all the time with no commercials, no editing, and getting new movies every month— always getting like two to five movies a month, per channel… Back then it was pretty cool. But that was back in the early-80s… Once the newness of movie services like HBO and Showtime wore off, other movie services started popping up, showing the same movies in the same reruns and then one day, almost out of the blue, HBO and Showtime started coming up with their own original content. They started making their own movies and their own miniseries. The reason I’m mentioning this is because I’m a Netflix customer and over the last two months I noticed that I’m not really getting a lot of new releases, and I’m not getting a lot of new content that I’m finding interesting. My son loves the service because he can watch cartoons and kid shows on demand, but for something other than kid shows I’m not really finding a lot of stuff it’s interesting. I would’ve assumed that anything that I can...

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  • The popularity of the gaming console, and the profitability of it, have just been astounding. A couple of years ago, you could have hopped on the Internet and read article after article about how PC gaming was dead and how the gaming console was going to be the future of gaming. I would’ve been one of those individuals that you would have to call crazy because I thought PC gaming was still doing very well. And I also would’ve argued the benefits over using a gaming console versus the PC. Video games in general have been extremely popular and very profitable. With everything with the economy doing so bad, and everyone talking about a recession, the gaming industry seems to have had record profits during this time, but PC games sales were still there. Some of the most profitable games stemmed from the PC gaming audience. And their benefits to the PC gaming world; take for instance Battlefield 3… the gameplay for Battlefield 3 is simply incredible, with full HDMI output and able to have 64 players, real players, per game. And some of the PC games simply outperform the gaming consoles when it comes to graphics and the physics...

    PC Games Show Resurgence in Sales; Consoles not so much

    Posted on February 6, 2012 | 2 Comments
    The popularity of the gaming console, and the profitability of it, have just been astounding. A couple of years ago, you could have hopped on the Internet and read article after article about how PC gaming was dead and how the gaming console was going to be the future of gaming. I would’ve been one of those individuals that you would have to call crazy because I thought PC gaming was still doing very well. And I also would’ve argued the benefits over using a gaming console versus the PC. Video games in general have been extremely popular and very profitable. With everything with the economy doing so bad, and everyone talking about a recession, the gaming industry seems to have had record profits during this time, but PC games sales were still there. Some of the most profitable games stemmed from the PC gaming audience. And their benefits to the PC gaming world; take for instance Battlefield 3… the gameplay for Battlefield 3 is simply incredible, with full HDMI output and able to have 64 players, real players, per game. And some of the PC games simply outperform the gaming consoles when it comes to graphics and the physics...

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  • People are always using functions and website and rarely ever really dig in to the settings for those websites; that goes for other sites like Facebook and Google, but today I was starting my Google+ hangout and saw the options for the camera. The layout of Google+ hangouts has changed a bit, so it makes good sense to check on them periodically. What I found in the settings was odd… To me it seemed retro; it was a connection speed selection…

    Google+ hangouts: Odd settings

    Posted on January 17, 2012 | No Comments
    People are always using functions and website and rarely ever really dig in to the settings for those websites; that goes for other sites like Facebook and Google, but today I was starting my Google+ hangout and saw the options for the camera. The layout of Google+ hangouts has changed a bit, so it makes good sense to check on them periodically. What I found in the settings was odd… To me it seemed retro; it was a connection speed selection…

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  • This holiday season advertisers are pushing everything and nothing seems to be more popular than tech and gadget items. And what’s absent from a lot of advertisements [from what I've observed] is the iPad. The iPad has been the staple standard for tablet PC’s for an over extended period of time, everything is compared to the iPad; it IS the de facto standard by which every tablet PC is measured. It’s always the same thing, here’s the new tablet PC; and here’s the same thing compared to the iPad. It’s a silly game… The Android market and the iOS market have thousands of games and applications; and evenly matched developers are as well. So the game isn’t what does the iPad have vs. the other; we’re talking specifications and hardware levels now. And if you are talking that, you are talking ‘losing side’ for the iPad.

    Crushing IPad- That’s what the Android operating system is doing.

    Posted on November 25, 2011 | 2 Comments
    This holiday season advertisers are pushing everything and nothing seems to be more popular than tech and gadget items. And what’s absent from a lot of advertisements [from what I've observed] is the iPad. The iPad has been the staple standard for tablet PC’s for an over extended period of time, everything is compared to the iPad; it IS the de facto standard by which every tablet PC is measured. It’s always the same thing, here’s the new tablet PC; and here’s the same thing compared to the iPad. It’s a silly game… The Android market and the iOS market have thousands of games and applications; and evenly matched developers are as well. So the game isn’t what does the iPad have vs. the other; we’re talking specifications and hardware levels now. And if you are talking that, you are talking ‘losing side’ for the iPad.

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  • Have you ever visited Google’s shopping website? with the new interface it has? It’s really nice. And as everyone gets ready to charge the stores for Black Friday’s shopping specials, it’s nice to have fall back options… My wife is really big in to shopping, as most women are, but for them it’s an art, a competetion. It’s not just to shop but to be able to take home that one thing and say, “I only spent X dollars on this…” — I like to take a different approach; cause I’m mostly in to tech, toys and gadgets— I like to do more research. So, here’s my example, I recently purchased a Logitech G510 illuminated keyboard. My wife convienently broke the last one by forcefully removing the space bar [thanks honey] after my son had spilled some ‘drink’ on it. Understandably, it was good intentions, but… So I went in search of a new keyboard. And I thought I found a good one. I found a local business that had one and I went to go try it out— you know, hands on…

    2011 Holiday shopping online – be Froogle’r

    Posted on November 22, 2011 | No Comments
    Have you ever visited Google’s shopping website? with the new interface it has? It’s really nice. And as everyone gets ready to charge the stores for Black Friday’s shopping specials, it’s nice to have fall back options… My wife is really big in to shopping, as most women are, but for them it’s an art, a competetion. It’s not just to shop but to be able to take home that one thing and say, “I only spent X dollars on this…” — I like to take a different approach; cause I’m mostly in to tech, toys and gadgets— I like to do more research. So, here’s my example, I recently purchased a Logitech G510 illuminated keyboard. My wife convienently broke the last one by forcefully removing the space bar [thanks honey] after my son had spilled some ‘drink’ on it. Understandably, it was good intentions, but… So I went in search of a new keyboard. And I thought I found a good one. I found a local business that had one and I went to go try it out— you know, hands on…

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  • This is just a random review and video of an app that was listed in AppBrain for Android. From time to time I’ll drop in to AppBrain and see what the random top application of the day is, just to see what’s trending. For this post, I’ve got a application called Assaulter. It’s an 80′s style game with fast action and explosions. The game play is linear; it’s not FPS or anything and reminds me of the old games like Pitfall and Mario Brothers [just with lots of weapons]. You can get in to the game really quick and start playing— there’s very little delay there. I have created a video to show the installation and game play of the application.  

    Random application: ASSAULTER

    Posted on November 10, 2011 | 1 Comment
    This is just a random review and video of an app that was listed in AppBrain for Android. From time to time I’ll drop in to AppBrain and see what the random top application of the day is, just to see what’s trending. For this post, I’ve got a application called Assaulter. It’s an 80′s style game with fast action and explosions. The game play is linear; it’s not FPS or anything and reminds me of the old games like Pitfall and Mario Brothers [just with lots of weapons]. You can get in to the game really quick and start playing— there’s very little delay there. I have created a video to show the installation and game play of the application.  

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  • The good news today in technology is that Adobe Flash has ceased development for mobile devices. This is a huge announcement and achievement for technologies going forward using HTML 5. I guess one would say that Steve Jobs was the vampire slayer of Adobe Flash. Steve Jobs was the one who decided that Adobe Flash wasn’t good enough, was a reliable, had security problems and didn’t have the performance that was required for mobile devices. From there, Steve Jobs decided that Apple products would not support Adobe Flash. At the time, this was a revolutionary idea; it was very bold, but the writing was there on the wall, and while competitors took advantage of Apple‘s lack of support for Adobe Flash, they [Google] made it a absolute point to say that there devices supported Adobe Flash… Skipping to the current day, what Adobe is conceding at this point is that Adobe Flash isn’t intended for mobile devices; they’re simply too many problems for Adobe Flash to keep going in that direction.

    Adobe Ceases Development of Mobile Version of Flash

    Posted on November 9, 2011 | No Comments
    The good news today in technology is that Adobe Flash has ceased development for mobile devices. This is a huge announcement and achievement for technologies going forward using HTML 5. I guess one would say that Steve Jobs was the vampire slayer of Adobe Flash. Steve Jobs was the one who decided that Adobe Flash wasn’t good enough, was a reliable, had security problems and didn’t have the performance that was required for mobile devices. From there, Steve Jobs decided that Apple products would not support Adobe Flash. At the time, this was a revolutionary idea; it was very bold, but the writing was there on the wall, and while competitors took advantage of Apple‘s lack of support for Adobe Flash, they [Google] made it a absolute point to say that there devices supported Adobe Flash… Skipping to the current day, what Adobe is conceding at this point is that Adobe Flash isn’t intended for mobile devices; they’re simply too many problems for Adobe Flash to keep going in that direction.

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  • Several years ago when phone providers were coming out with their data plans, they could offer unlimited data plans for a flat rate because basically no one was using large amounts of data; there was another applications that were really showing a huge draw on the services of the phone providers networks. But as everyone knows, smartphones and data plans started to become a very big topic one smart phones were well established and then the number of applications that were being created; using larger and larger amounts of bandwidth. I still laugh at the article where AT&T claims that they have 4G service; when in actuality they don’t. this was documented by the chief technology officer for AT&T earlier this year. Basically, his comments said that there weren’t enough applications that would show the customers aren’t getting 4G service; so there’s no reason to say that we don’t already have it.

    Bandwidth Should Be Unlimited

    Posted on November 4, 2011 | No Comments
    Several years ago when phone providers were coming out with their data plans, they could offer unlimited data plans for a flat rate because basically no one was using large amounts of data; there was another applications that were really showing a huge draw on the services of the phone providers networks. But as everyone knows, smartphones and data plans started to become a very big topic one smart phones were well established and then the number of applications that were being created; using larger and larger amounts of bandwidth. I still laugh at the article where AT&T claims that they have 4G service; when in actuality they don’t. this was documented by the chief technology officer for AT&T earlier this year. Basically, his comments said that there weren’t enough applications that would show the customers aren’t getting 4G service; so there’s no reason to say that we don’t already have it.

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  • I have a Xbox and just like everyone else, I fight to have the proper amount of space to play Xbox Kinect games in confined spaces; until now. I have a friend of mine purchase a Nyko Zoom and try it out on his Xbox Kinect system and he’s reporting back it works like a charm. Reducing the amount of space players need to play games with Xbox Kinect by 40%, and it also gives you more side-to-side space as well because it uses special lenses [wide angle]; allowing players more space next to them to really get in to those big hay makers— hopefully when your boxing the crap out of someone else. The application of the special lense doesn’t seem to affect the game play of the Xbox Kinect and leaves everyone asking another question; why didn’t Microsoft think about this before they released the Xbox Kinect?

    Xbox Kinect addon: Nyko Zoom

    Posted on September 15, 2011 | 2 Comments
    I have a Xbox and just like everyone else, I fight to have the proper amount of space to play Xbox Kinect games in confined spaces; until now. I have a friend of mine purchase a Nyko Zoom and try it out on his Xbox Kinect system and he’s reporting back it works like a charm. Reducing the amount of space players need to play games with Xbox Kinect by 40%, and it also gives you more side-to-side space as well because it uses special lenses [wide angle]; allowing players more space next to them to really get in to those big hay makers— hopefully when your boxing the crap out of someone else. The application of the special lense doesn’t seem to affect the game play of the Xbox Kinect and leaves everyone asking another question; why didn’t Microsoft think about this before they released the Xbox Kinect?

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  • I think it’s pretty obvious that tablet PCs are the ‘IT’ toy right now. The idea of having a small device that could have access to your e-mail, Internet and be able to do an abundance of other things is very attractive; not to mention the ability to touch the screen and have things happen. I think that’s the most novel thing that the tablet PCs bring to the public interest, and I think this is one of the biggest reasons why people purchase tablet PCs in the first place… And while tablet PCs have an abundance of functions and they can do lots of things, and they’re evolving every day, but the sad fact is that tablet PCs spark more curiosity than they provide practicality. In people’s minds, it’s cool to have this little thin device that has access to Internet and can browse the web and can play a few video games, but tablet PCs are not for everyone, and they’re not for everyday use; their purpose in life is to bridge the gap between carrying around a laptop and having a bigger screen than your smartphone… I’m not saying that tablet PCs are worthless, because they can...

    Tablets Are Popular, But Not Productive

    Posted on July 19, 2011 | 3 Comments
    I think it’s pretty obvious that tablet PCs are the ‘IT’ toy right now. The idea of having a small device that could have access to your e-mail, Internet and be able to do an abundance of other things is very attractive; not to mention the ability to touch the screen and have things happen. I think that’s the most novel thing that the tablet PCs bring to the public interest, and I think this is one of the biggest reasons why people purchase tablet PCs in the first place… And while tablet PCs have an abundance of functions and they can do lots of things, and they’re evolving every day, but the sad fact is that tablet PCs spark more curiosity than they provide practicality. In people’s minds, it’s cool to have this little thin device that has access to Internet and can browse the web and can play a few video games, but tablet PCs are not for everyone, and they’re not for everyday use; their purpose in life is to bridge the gap between carrying around a laptop and having a bigger screen than your smartphone… I’m not saying that tablet PCs are worthless, because they can...

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  • The last [according to Shia]/latest Transformers movie was released and it’s going over like gang busters. The absence of Megan Fox didn’t even make a dent in sales, but I wasn’t surprised; she can’t act anyway. It’s all about the transforming robots and the explosions [that only Michael Bay can do]. The latest Transformers just seems to get it all wrong and right, at the same time. The most destructive part of this movie is the script and the director. For those fans of the Transformers legacy, the last two films are nothing more than crap built on the Hollywood garbage machine. They take a great series, huge back story and then start picking and twisting and skewing the whole thing in to some stupid love story; it’s not even funny. The whole basis behind the Transformers is Autobots vs. Decepticons [good vs. evil]; it’s never been about humans– maybe about protecting them, but not directly about them.

    Movie Review: Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon

    Posted on July 11, 2011 | 3 Comments
    The last [according to Shia]/latest Transformers movie was released and it’s going over like gang busters. The absence of Megan Fox didn’t even make a dent in sales, but I wasn’t surprised; she can’t act anyway. It’s all about the transforming robots and the explosions [that only Michael Bay can do]. The latest Transformers just seems to get it all wrong and right, at the same time. The most destructive part of this movie is the script and the director. For those fans of the Transformers legacy, the last two films are nothing more than crap built on the Hollywood garbage machine. They take a great series, huge back story and then start picking and twisting and skewing the whole thing in to some stupid love story; it’s not even funny. The whole basis behind the Transformers is Autobots vs. Decepticons [good vs. evil]; it’s never been about humans– maybe about protecting them, but not directly about them.

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  • Microsoft has recently indicated that ‘basically’ they have no intentions of adopting WebGL for Internet Explorer. And I’m not able to help but think that they forget where they are… they’re on the downward slope of ‘…we need you’. I’m a fan of Mozilla Firefox, but it’s not to say that I’m oblivious to the speed and function of Google Chrome, and let’s not forget the blistering speed at which they’re releasing new versions of their browser; it’s just staggering. The rate at which Chrome is gaining popularity is more than any other browser. Not even Mozilla Firefox is able to keep up with Chrome. Internet Explorer market share is sliding and Mozilla Firefox is flat and Chrome adoption continues to grow. Microsoft has their head in the sand if they think they’re winning this race; or if they think their in this race. Microsoft is an icon of what NOT to do if you make a web browser. Microsoft‘s Internet Explorer was a main stay icon of a POS browser until Mozilla Firefox came on and decided to cut in to their market. Microsoft has copied EVERYTHING all the other browsers have been doing, are doing and will do,...

    Microsoft is making the mistake with WebGL that Apple made with Adobe Flash

    Posted on June 17, 2011 | No Comments
    Microsoft has recently indicated that ‘basically’ they have no intentions of adopting WebGL for Internet Explorer. And I’m not able to help but think that they forget where they are… they’re on the downward slope of ‘…we need you’. I’m a fan of Mozilla Firefox, but it’s not to say that I’m oblivious to the speed and function of Google Chrome, and let’s not forget the blistering speed at which they’re releasing new versions of their browser; it’s just staggering. The rate at which Chrome is gaining popularity is more than any other browser. Not even Mozilla Firefox is able to keep up with Chrome. Internet Explorer market share is sliding and Mozilla Firefox is flat and Chrome adoption continues to grow. Microsoft has their head in the sand if they think they’re winning this race; or if they think their in this race. Microsoft is an icon of what NOT to do if you make a web browser. Microsoft‘s Internet Explorer was a main stay icon of a POS browser until Mozilla Firefox came on and decided to cut in to their market. Microsoft has copied EVERYTHING all the other browsers have been doing, are doing and will do,...

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  • Over the past couple of months in watching the behavior of Google, it’s curious as to what Google considers morally correct behavior. Google has decided to punish the android users who have chosen to reboot their android devices. Just recently they decided to deny access for pay-per-view videos for those users who have modified their android devices; basically saying, if you have rooted your android device, you will not be able to watch pay-per-view videos from YouTube. But the android market is littered with applications that are specifically for android devices that are rooted. Google seems to making decisions based upon the severity, or the level of a security risk these applications can offer. Acting as a climatologist on Google, it’s hard to observe a company be so finicky about what is morally correct and what isn’t. The android operating system is supposed to be an open platform, but recently Google decided to tighten the noose on when and how the android operating system is released to the public. While Google is still offering the source code to developers, they are now deciding on the timeline and how the source code is provided.

    Android Market: What Google Considers Right And Wrong

    Posted on June 2, 2011 | No Comments
    Over the past couple of months in watching the behavior of Google, it’s curious as to what Google considers morally correct behavior. Google has decided to punish the android users who have chosen to reboot their android devices. Just recently they decided to deny access for pay-per-view videos for those users who have modified their android devices; basically saying, if you have rooted your android device, you will not be able to watch pay-per-view videos from YouTube. But the android market is littered with applications that are specifically for android devices that are rooted. Google seems to making decisions based upon the severity, or the level of a security risk these applications can offer. Acting as a climatologist on Google, it’s hard to observe a company be so finicky about what is morally correct and what isn’t. The android operating system is supposed to be an open platform, but recently Google decided to tighten the noose on when and how the android operating system is released to the public. While Google is still offering the source code to developers, they are now deciding on the timeline and how the source code is provided.

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