Archive for 'hardware'
New iPhone
I bought an iPhone in October 2007 and today it is still working, albeit with a cracked screen. When I saw the new iPhone 4 presented I got the itch to get a new phone. I could wait a few weeks and pay $200 USD for the latest iPhone, but I decided to buy the [...]
Posted: June 9th, 2010 under hardware.
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Create your gadget brag list on gdgt.com
Posted: January 21st, 2010 under hardware.
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Wildfire 650cc
Triad Auto World has this 3-wheeled vehicle for sale on it’s lot. It’s the Wildfire 650c. This tiny vehicle has four seats and, according to WildfireMotors.com, it gets up to 60 mpg. The EPA certificate on the site says it is classified as a motorcycle, and has a 4-stroke, 2-cylinder, 644 cc engine. Cruising speed [...]
Posted: January 5th, 2009 under hardware, invention.
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Gadgets
These are things I own which require electricity, gasoline, or kerosene, etc. They are listed in the order in which they came to mind. Sirius Satellite radio Magellan GPS iPhone Amazon Kindle MacBook Pro OCW 120G external hard drive 500G external hard drive Clearwire modem Linksys wireless router 1993 Honda Accord Western Digital USB hard [...]
Posted: December 30th, 2008 under hardware, invention.
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7 mm thick e-book reader
Plastic Logic is working on an e-book reader that is thinner than an iPhone and is 8.5 in x 11 in. It utilizes E-ink® technology and has a touch screen. Even though it is very thin it is as large as a sheet of paper which makes it only slightly more portable than a laptop. [...]
Posted: November 24th, 2008 under hardware, invention.
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Microsoft finally makes a decent commercial
Watch the Windows ads. Watch the Apple ads. Apple has been running the “I’m a PC and I’m a Mac” commercials since 2006 without a word from Microsoft. Finally Microsoft has responded and created an ad which says, “I’m a PC and I’ve been made into a stereotype.” From TechCrunch.com [The new Microsoft ads] show [...]
Posted: November 8th, 2008 under hardware, miscellaneous, software.
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They still make supercomputers
Supercomputers today have thousands of processors, can perform trillions of calculations per second and have hundreds and hundreds of gigabytes of memory capacity. TOP500.org maintains a list of the fastest 500 supercomputers in the world. Here are the countries with the most supercomputers on the list: United States has 257 of the fastest supercomputers. United [...]
Posted: August 22nd, 2008 under hardware, invention.
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Save the BPP!
Save the Bryant Park Project SaveBPP.org
Posted: July 23rd, 2008 under administrative, ai, art, backpacking, efficiency, entertainment, flight, food, fringe, games, graphics, hardware, invention, juggling, language, law, mathematics, movies, nature, performance, philosophy, politics, road, science, skill toys, software, travel, vision, walking, work.
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Posting on the road
I am posting this using Safari on my new iPhone. Some blog software allows you to post via e-mail, so mobile blogging is nothing new. With the iPhone I have access to the entire blog interface. I am connected to the Internet using AT&T’s Edge Network. It’s faster than dial-up, but slower than broadband. Right [...]
Posted: October 13th, 2007 under hardware, invention.
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My new phone
My previous mobile phone provider was Cricket. Cricket was a good deal, because I had unlimited minutes and unlimited texting to anywhere in the USA for only $50 a month. I really liked knowing that, no matter what, my phone bill would always be $50. The only problem was that the Cricket calling areas in [...]
Posted: October 2nd, 2007 under hardware.
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