Many of us are now carrying smartphones in our pockets. If you aren’t yet carrying one, stats show that you may in the not-too-distant future. Most smartphones today have an integrated GPS and pretty well-developed navigation apps. Case in point, this last weekend I navigated to a fairly remote point in east central Florida using [...]
Samsung has recently introduced their Galaxy S4. And, I recently had the opportunity to check it out. Now, I preface everything here with this… I am a long-time iPhone user. I took a temporary hiatus into the world of Android awhile back, and was quite disappointed. So, what did I think about the Samsung Galaxy [...]
I don’t think I’d be exaggerating if I were to refer to Twitter as my favorite social network. It’s a downright incredible platform, and an excellent means of communication. As an added bonus, it’s all this without the rather disconcerting privacy concerns of Facebook. It’s where I go to get most of my news on [...]
To make good videos with almost any camera, it is good to remove vibrations from hand-holding it. And, the most common way to do that is by mounting it on a tripod. Problem is, mounting a smartphone onto a tripod requires some extra gear. Whereas almost all cameras have a tripod mount on them, phones [...]
Ever tried to record video with a point-and-shoot camera, smartphone, or…. well, ANY camera, and do so using the built-in microphone? What does it sound like? Garbage, that’s what. The resulting audio is noisy, full of hiss in some cases, and it picks up every little background noise going on. The subject of the video [...]
Smartphones have caught on to such a degree in recent years, it’s unusual to come across someone who doesn’t own one, and downright odd if said person doesn’t at least have a cell phone. In many of these venues, having the device set to full ring would not only be socially inept, it would be [...]
Occasionally, when I’m out and about, I’ll try to make a phone call or send a text message, only to find that my cell phone reception is so far in the toilet that it’s probably already arrived at a nearby water treatment plant. While I’d certainly love to say my cell phone provider is one [...]
I’m sure many of you still remember the rather absurd lawsuit that Apple brought to bear against Samsung. Apparently, they were concerned that the consumer was having trouble discerning the difference between a drawn-out patent battle where Apple claimed that Samsung ripped off a whole host of features from its market-leading iPad, up to and [...]
When Google first released the Chromebook, it was heralded as the next evolution of personal computing. Many hoped that it would signify a revolution, that it would lead into a new era in the world of technology. Turns out that didn’t happen. Almost two years later and the Chromebook is more or less forgotten. It [...]
Anybody up for a game of Super Mario Brothers on your Android phone? Modern smartphones are rather impressive devices, aren’t they? Even the lowest-grade droid on the market can outperform the vast majority of pre-2000 computer systems. That includes old-school game consoles, of course. I’m sure you see where I’m going with this: Given the [...]
Let me paint a picture for you, ladies and gents. You’ve got a song stuck in your head. Not a whole song, though. All you can remember of the song is a few bars, perhaps the chorus. We’ve all had this happen before, and it’s one of the most irritating things in the world. [...]
We are living in a society that is increasingly connected. The mobile devices we use every day are becoming more and more integrated into our day to day lives, and we’re using them for everything from shopping to communication to financial management to gaming. As I’m sure I’ve said at some point before, they’re beyond [...]
The development of the tablet PC has caused a revolution in the worlds of commerce and enterprise, a huge shift in how we communicate and connect with one another. If you were to say that the release of the iPad – and the flood of devices that hit the market immediately afterward – has changed [...]
Speeding tickets suck. Not only are they ridiculously expensive, they can drive your insurance up to a premium. Whether they’re sent to you by mail or handed down by an imperious traffic cop… no one likes to receive one – particularly when it feels like one’s been wrongly accused or singled out. See, traffic laws [...]
Apple’s been making a fairly consistent effort to portray itself as an environmentally efficient organization… a brand which puts the environment first (much to the dismay of Greenpeace, which has been hounding them every step of the way). One cannot deny that they’ve made progress, at least in the data center field. That’s just a [...]
