Posts Tagged ‘ technology ’

After nearly a year after I mentioned Myka, it appears that Myka is ready to be shipped in versions 80G, 160G or 500G with list prices between $299-$459.  To review, Myka is designed as an open-source alternative to devices like Apple TV, Amazon Unbox, Roku and VUDU.  It uses BitTorrent as its underlying framework, allowing...
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I’ve been playing around with the AppleTV for a couple months now and starting to notice the limitations. There’s problems with organizing the content (podcasts, lectures from iTunesU, for example), with synchronization, and, while integrating with iTunes store makes 1-click shopping pretty easy, I don’t like how it’s tied into a proprietary system. As...
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Zoho offers a suite of online web applications geared towards increasing your productivity and offering easy collaboration. I’ve been playing around with this AJAX based software for a few days now and finding that the applications seem to have all the features I’d expect. I’m not sure whether the business apps are “ready-for-primetime” but...
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My latest gadget is the Apple TV which allows you to stream music, pictures and videos from your iTunes to the TV. It has a clever remote (similar to the ipod) and allows you to directly purchase and rent movies and tv shows from the iTunes store. TV shows are $1.99, movie rentals are...
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The Send Your Name to the Moon Web site enables everyone to participate in the lunar adventure and place their names in orbit around the moon for years to come. Participants can submit their information at http://lro.jhuapl.edu/NameToMoon/, print a certificate and have their name entered into a database. The database will be placed on...
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Kay Hymowitz recently stated on NPR that 20-30 year-old men should stop playing video games and become productive members of society. Is bachelorhood is a bad habit and a sign of society’s ills? Are video games really to blame?read more | digg story
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A dear friend got me a roll up keyboard for my birthday (Thank you, J). I am practicing typing on it right now–is impervious to liquid spills (silicone coating) and is actually quite a bit easier to type on that I had expected. Although slightly mushy, the portability and cool factor are undeniably geek....
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