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Plugging a wall wart into an outlet is a pain. You’ve got a thing dangling from the wall that drains power whenever it’s plugged in, you have to plug a cord into a thing, then plug that thing into the wall, and those wall warts are prone to pulling out part way because many of…
I was recently asked a question about Windows 10. Microsoft is unifying the codebase between computers, laptops, tablets, and even smartphones to something more uniform across all devices. In the process we’re seeing Microsoft drop support for Windows RT, which runs on ARM-based hardware rather than Intel x86/x64 chips. With Intel mobile procs getting almost…
I’m a fan of mobile computing. You might have picked up on that thanks to my involvement with Pocketnow. Inside our smartphones are fully functional computers. They have multi-core, multi-GHz processors, a couple GB RAM, a fair amount of storage space, and so much more. Thanks to ARM-based processors, based on RISC rather than CISC…
Ready for a ridiculous over-simplification of what a capacitor is and does? Think of your city’s municipal water tower. You have water being pumped into the top, a reservoir to hold a bunch of water, and a pipe coming out the bottom which ties into the water distribution network (“pipes”). Why have the water tower…
While helping my brother move into his new place we found an odd little black box tucked away into a basement closet. On the back were ports typical of a modern computer, but no external drives were visible. What could it be? Upon closer inspection, it appears to be a Nelson Media “Black Box” for…
Today Apple announced a long rumored “tablet” pc. Except it’s not a pc, it’s not even a Mac. It runs the iPhone operating system. For the most part, it’s just a big iPhone. Well, sort of. It doesn’t even have a phone. You read that correctly: no phone. There’s no web cam either, so you…
Google Voice is amazing. But I’m not going to tell you why, or try and convince you fence-sitters in this post. This post is about iPhone and Pre users being left out in the cold and not able to really use Google Voice because there wasn’t an app available for them. Well, that’s not entirely…