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Entries Tagged ‘Technology’

RIP Windows Mobile, Hello Android!

Over the years I have used at least one device from every major PDA/Smartphone line available. As you can see from the list below I have been with Microsoft’s handheld devices since their initial release of Pocket PC(Later renamed to Windows Mobile). After almost 10 years of using their devices I have finally had enough. [...]

Snow Leopard upgrade experience

I upgraded my 10.5.8 Leopard system to 10.6 Snow Leopard tonight and all said and done it went well. I did a 64-bit kernel install(forced using the 6 and 4 keys during install startup) on my MacBook3,1. The installation had no issues whatsoever and cleanly installed. It took about 45 minutes from the time I [...]

The State of Mobile Devices: Part I

The state of mobile devices has been pretty idle for the last few years. Only since the iPhone came out has there been interest by Microsoft, Google (Android), Palm (WebOS) and other Windows Mobile device manufacturers to innovate. The iPhone has been wildly successful because it just works. The iPhone OS (although Apple claims is [...]

fed up with my display.

I’ve had this ongoing problem with my display being unbelievably slow. Tonight was the absolute final straw. I have been getting into photo editing again which means I will be using Photoshop in Linux. I also always have tvtime(tv tuner application) running for my CNN news. My display has lagged so bad with everything being [...]