Jim Lynch: Technology and Other Musings

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 of Android phones, there have been battles happening as partisans of [...]

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 there’s a Kindle for everybody…literally! Choice is a beautiful thing and [...]

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. Apple has arrogantly tried to force companies like Amazon to cough up [...]

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 them. Well the latest release is called “A Dance With Dragons” [...]

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 and they won’t cost you a dime. What could be better [...]

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 through this yet again simply because of a new iProduct?

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 owners run into problems with their birds making a lot of [...]

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 is essentially a left-wing version of the Drudge Report with commenting [...]

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 all of the various applications to find the golden nuggets.

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 but that could change…very quickly.