Gadgets

How To Save A Drowned Phone!

Posted by Daniel on May 11, 2010 at 1:16 pm

It finally happened to me! I accidentally dropped my phone in water the other day and completely freaked out because as soon as the phone hit the water, it turned off and would not power back on – kudos to the manufacturer for that. It may have been what saved the phone. This is a [...]

Lazy Developers Do Not Deserve Your Time

Posted by Daniel on May 11, 2010 at 12:29 pm

Technology is improving at an amazing pace and it’s all we can do to keep up. So it angers me to no end when I encounter what I term “lazy development” in terms of content delivery. Let me explain. Tweet This Post

Symbian’s New Web Tool Kit

Posted by Daniel on April 30, 2010 at 11:02 am

The Symbian Foundation has announced the availability of its web application development toolkit for the open-source Symbian^3 mobile platform. The new platform allows programmers and web developers to augment their skills with the use of “just a few more JacaScript APIs” in order to access capabilities like contacts, camera, location etc. on a symbian powered [...]

The iPad Hype: Much Ado About Nothing?

Posted by Daniel on February 1, 2010 at 10:05 am

Apple Computers (yes, that is what it originally was) recently announced a new iPhone-like mobile computing device called the iPad. Unless you live in the most remote of Islands, I’m sure that is all you’ve heard or read about in the past week. Tweet This Post

Device Manufacturers and the fleecing of consumers

Posted by Daniel on June 13, 2009 at 7:27 pm

I’ve recently had cause to wonder if device manufacturers purposely make sure their devices are of limited use to people who buy their products. A few examples: I recently bought a couple of NAS devices and each one of them failed woefully to do what was advertised. First is what I actually started calling the [...]