Posts Tagged ‘technology’

I know it's probably just wishful thinking, but I sincerely hope that I'm never out of touch enough to have to call tech support for something like the Pac-Man game showing up on Google's homepage. I shudder to think of what technological horrors/breakthroughs/wonders await to befuddle myself and people my age in another 30 years [...]

While I'm of the firm belief that printed books will never completely go away, you'd be naive to think that perusing titles on electronic readers won't be the majority of the way people read in Teh Futor.
I'm thinking the leading wave of this movement might even start with my kid -- especially if the [...]

There's a new worm out there, and it's targeting iPhones. However, 99% of you with Apple's smart phone don't have to sweat it because the Rickroll worm only affects folks who decided to Jailbreak their gear, and then only folks who left their password as the default. And, even then, it doesn't really damage anything [...]

I received the following text message from The Wife™ just a short while ago.
"Happy anniversary, BTW"
Now, to find the perfect e-card with which to respond...

Apparently the price drop did something: the PS3 was the top-selling console in September.
Now PS3 owners have further reason to be excited. Remember how that amazing/mildly revolutionary Netflix streaming was only available on the XBox 360? No longer.
As an aging, no-longer-very-active gamer, I like the PS3. As a still-crazed cinephile, I LOVE the PS3.

Have the big four record companies lost that much sway in the culture at large that no one cares about them launching a new digital record format?
Well, I for one can't wait for them to continue shooting themselves in the foot by overcharging for music so that I and everyone else can continue to use [...]

Apple is racing to offer a portable tablet-sized computer in time for the Christmas shopping season, in what the entertainment industry hopes will be a new revolution.
This from an article today in the Financial Times. This has to be as important as Jon/Kate Gosselien and Michael Jackson, right? RIGHT?!?

Augie got the comic book retail world into an uproar a few months back, and now it's Andrew Wheeler's turn with a well written and even more well thought out commentary on digital comics, Rantz Hoseley's new Longbox project and the potential extinction a good number of brick and mortar comic book stores most likely [...]