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 […]

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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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My first reaction when I saw Apple’s press release about the price cuts to their internationally-known and highly touted, “God-Phone” – the iPhone, although I probably didn’t need to say that – was to laugh uproariously. I don’t think I was alone either. I remember reading the press reports when the iPhone was released back […]

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I’ve noticed that as of this morning, Facebook is now adding long strings of hex code after every link, with the enigmatic name “pwstdfy=#hex value#” – I wonder if this is in response to the new accusations regarding its security towards minors, which I’ve seen coming up in the news a lot recently. www.facebook.com was […]

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I’ve never been an Apple fan. Never been able to actually pinpoint why I naturally distrust it, but after the experience that every person my age can remember in elementary school; that is to say, using those antiquitated Apple IIe systems that seemed to be preloaded with Oregon Trail (you all remember it, don’t deny […]

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