Entries Tagged as 'electronics'

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

I LOVE the iPod touch…

but I want to know why there is no pop up indicator for the volume slider? I get this great little indicator for the keyboard that lets me know what key my fat finger actually hit but I get a bucket of nothing for the volume slider. What’s the deal? Is Apple [...]

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

The iPhone SDK is going to suck.

Here is why the iPhone SDK will suck.
Steve Jobs said that there is not going to be Flash support for the iPhone because Flash lite isn’t good enough.
Apple’s iPhone, with all its cutting-edge mobile Internet trickery, needs something much better than the current Flash player that Adobe makes for cellphones. The Flash Player option that [...]

Monday, February 11th, 2008

Mobile browser round-up

At the beginning of the year I said that this will be the year mobile internet really launches in the U.S. Reluctantly I admitted that is due to Safari on the iPhone. Regardless the source of it, it’s coming true. Just take a look at the recent news and updates coming for [...]

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

Window Mobile vs Google Android vs Cellular Providers

Years ago I watched Channel 9 pretty much every week but in the last few I haven’t been that interested in their stuff, mostly because it’s just too long, but somehow I ended up back there today and found this gem.
http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=303900
Somewhere in the middle of this epic is a Windows Mobile expense tracker that uses [...]

Saturday, February 2nd, 2008

The year of mobile web

Right now I’m working on a site that has a custom style [display] for the iPod Touch, which is really just a iPhone without the phone and $2000+ AT&T contract. I’m also using a HTC TnTY II (Windows Mobile 6) smartphone (unlocked on T-Mobile) and I’ve come to realize that until Windows buys a [...]

Saturday, February 2nd, 2008

Jeff Hawkins, On Intelligence

I recently started watching the TED Talks series of videos on my iPod Touch, that I am developing a site for at iMed Studios, and was pleased to find a talk given by Jeff Hawkins in 2003 regarding intelligence. This reminded me that I kept meaning to pick up his book On Intelligence but [...]