Even when I was in the mountains of Colorado, I found time to watch Steve Job’s new keynote speech announcing the latest updates to the iPhone software and the phone itself, the long-awaited iPhone 3G. Everyone knew it was coming for the past few months, and most people (including myself) were looking forward to it.
But [...]

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I’m taking a bioethics class this semester, and I have to say it’s one of the most interesting classes I’ve taken during my four years at college. A few weeks ago, we discussed the repercussions of cloning, whether for medical reasons or for social reasons. One of the philosophers we studied that week (although I [...]

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It took me several weeks to get the videos from my father and uncle, but at long last, here’s the video results of the Polar Plunge 2008 from February 16th. As a new twist on things, I’m using a new video program called “Silverlight” being pushed by Microsoft, same way that years ago, Adobe needed [...]

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When the 21st century’s Format War started a few years back over who’s bluish laser beam was more awesome, it was a matter of reading the specifications to know who I would be backing.
HD-DVD:

Based on current DVDs
Stores 15 GB single layer, or 30 GB dual layer
Cheaper of the two

Blu-ray:

From what I could tell, created because [...]

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Like many other techs, the most exciting prospect of today’s Macworld 2008 was either that Apple would release an iPhone with 3G capability (which they didn’t) or a tablet-based notebook system, with the delightful rotating screen that is the hallmark of tablet systems (they didn’t do that either.)
However, besides a few uninteresting software updates and [...]

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Upon reading my daily newsletters from PCMag, Gearlog, and Gizmodo, I’m struck by how many major publications continue to call the device we used to know as the “MP3 Player” but its old moniker, instead of switching us into the 21st century and encouraging the use of the less-known “PMP” or even “PM Player” - [...]

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