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Blizzard is generally regarded as a smart company with a savvy business model and knowledgeable developers. However, it has made a terrible mistake by not developing mobile versions of its popular games. Oh sure, Blizzard released its Mobile Armory ages ago. And it’s fine for what it does, but it doesn’t let you play...
A while back I wrote a column called “Why I Bought a Kindle 3 and Why I Stopped Using My iPad to Read eBooks” in which I explained why I had moved away from reading ebooks on my iPad in favor of my Kindle...
Have you noticed the inane babble about mobile devices happening online lately? You see it on technology discussion forums, but also on Facebook and other social media. It’s the dreaded “iOS Versus Android” battles. Ever since the release of the iPhone and subsequent release...
You might have heard already that Amazon has announced a number of new versions of the Kindle, including a touch version and a tablet. While I have some misgivings about the specifics of these products, the overall message from Amazon seems to be that...
A while back I wrote a column explaining why I stopped reading ebooks on my iPad and started using a Kindle 3 instead. Well some time has passed and things have changed for the worse for Amazon and other companies on the iPad.
One of the most widely read and much loved fantasy book series is George R. R. Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire.” This series includes the books “Game of Thrones” and its sequels. Millions of people have read these books and mostly enjoyed...
In my last roundup I looked at the 25 Best Free Mac Apps. But a Mac owner has to have fun too, right? So this time around I’ve found the 25 best, free Mac games. These games are all available in the Mac app store...
Well here are again, a new Apple product has been launched and various presstitutes are falling all over themselves about it. This time around it's the iPad 2 that has so many journawhores gasping for breath and oozing Apple worship. Ugh. Must we go...
I recently changed the title of this blog to “Technology and Other Musings” because I wanted to add an article here or there that wasn’t necessarily about technology. So I thought I’d write one about how to live with noisy parrots, since many parrot...
So AOL has decided to pay $315 million dollars for the Huffington Post? Wow. I am in absolute awe of the incredible stupidity of AOL executives. Have these people lost their freaking minds? They are shelling out tons of cash for a site that...
Following in the footsteps of its hugely popular iPhone/iPad app store, Apple has released an app store for the Mac. Like the other app store, you can download paid or free applications for your Macintosh computer. Unfortunately it can be difficult to sift through...
Remember when the iPad first came out and everybody thought it would kill the Kindle? Well it might just do that but not in the way everybody thinks. The Kindle is currently still at the top of the heap when it comes to ereaders...
If you’ve read any of my previous columns, you know that I’ve always been a big fan of ebooks. I started out with a Kindle 2 and then proceeded to buy an iPad. I loved both of these devices for different reasons, but I...
I read a lot of ebooks on my iPad; it’s actually replaced my beloved Kindle. However, there are so many different ebook apps available for the iPad that it can be tough to sort them all out. In this roundup I’ve included the 10...
Life is full of surprises, some of them good and some of them bad. This week I got a great surprise when a Debian version of Linux Mint was released. I wasn’t aware that the Linux Mint developers were even working on it, so...
When I was a kid, I used to watch the Creature Double Feature on channel 56. The Creature Double Feature was something I loved tuning into every Saturday, it was basically a double blast of monster movies. What could be better than two monster...
What a bunch of namby pamby whiners. You know the people I’m talking about, the ones bitching up a storm about the iPhone 4’s supposed “death grip.” These types of people are always looking for something to complain about. If it were a movie...
I got my iPhone 4 last week, but I wanted to hold off writing about until I'd had some time to actually use it. Since last week I've spent a fair amount of time using the new features and I took my iPhone 4...
A little while back I wrote a comparative review of iBooks and Amazon Kindle for the iPad. One of iBooks biggest weaknesses back then was that it did not have an iPhone version, unlike Amazon’s Kindle app. The release yesterday of iOS4 for the...
Well it's that time again, folks. Another iPhone is almost here and today is the day that Apple and AT&T are accepting pre-orders. It should be a joyous occasion, right? We should all have placed our orders by now and should be eagerly awaiting...
Last week I caught a lot of heat for my column about Safari 5's Reader feature. The column seemed to go a bit viral and I got quite a lot of visitors, many of whom were angry. They felt that they were entitled to...
Steve Jobs gave his usual keynote address at WWDC today. The iPhone took center stage, as expected. But there was another announcement that web publishers should take note of and should dread: Safari 5. The release of Safari 5 does not bode well for...
Amazon’s Kindle applications are one of the most popular ways to read ebooks. Oh sure, some people actually own a Kindle reader but quite a lot of people don’t. They simply use the Amazon Kindle application for their particular hardware. To date, Amazon is...
It’s been quite a while since I last wrote a roundup of free iPhone apps. Much has changed and there have been many new, free apps added to the iTunes store. So it’s a great time to do an updated list. If there’s another...
