Category: Technology
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I noticed this morning in the Sunday Union-Tribune (5/1/2011) what seemed to me to be an increased number of tablet and ebook advertisements: Best Buy: Kindle with Special Offers ($114); Acer Iconia Tab A500 ($450); NOOKColor ($350) Office Depot: ViewSonic 10.1" Tablet ($300) Staples: Dell Steak 7 ($400); BlackBerry PlayBook…
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I got a question from a friend asking if I was considering replacing my Apple iPad with a Motorola Zoom now that Best Buy is running ads for them. The short answer is no. I am still very happy with my iPad and use it every day as my primary…
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Here are some tech items I've been tracking: PaulaD has published a list of “50 Free Android Apps that Will Make You Smarter & More Productive". Gune is a mobile search service/platorm that searches 14 sites in a single interface. Victor Cajiao at Typical Mac User Podcast is speaking that…
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Over the last couple of months I've been trying to decide what the best device was to purchase that would allow the family to access the "most" digital content in our living room. Some things that mattered: Access to Internet content: NetFlix, Amazon, Hulu, Pandora, podcasts, etc Streaming media from the local…
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Here are some new items I am tracking — MaximumPC has a good list of Microsoft Windows Phone 7 feature and tech stats Amazon’s cloud services continue to see improvements: new lower S3 storage pricing, increased HTTPS support, Mechanical Turk upgrades, etc. NVIDA has announced GeForce.com as their new home…
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One of the lessons learned from attending DEFCON#18 was that as a FireFox user that running NoScript was a highly recommended tool. Many of the presenters who were talking about Internet browser vulnerabilities mentioned NoScript as a defensive tool to help mitigate the risks they were discussing in their presentations.…
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Listen! (Size 2.6 MBs, Running Time 2m36s) Today's podcast examines the latest version 3.1 of VMware Fusion for the Apple Mac OS X. Feel free to follow along with Steve Holden at: Twitter and/or Google+. For technology news only updates follow TechNewsRadio @ Twitter.
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Listen! (Size 4.1 MBs, Running Time 4m05s) Today's podcast examines portable audio recording options and some podcast production and distribution technologies. Links mentioned in this podcast include: Yahoo's Podcasters Mailing Zoom H4n Zoom H2 Edirol R-09 Zoom H1 Marantz 660 Apple iPad WordPress Audio Player Google Player Playtagger from Yahoo Amazon…
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Listen! (Size 3.0 MBs, Running Time 2m58s) Today's podcast examines some recent news from OpenOffice.org that Petroleo Brasileiro SA is rolling out a big BrOffice.org deployment to over 90,000 systems; and that v3.21 of Open Office has been release with v3.3 expected this Fall 2010. Two additional links mentioned in this…
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Listen! (Size 3.8 MBs, Running Time 3m48s) Today's podcast is a quick review of the Apple iPad and a pointer to a new book "iPad: The Missing Manual" [ISBN: 978-1-4493-8784-6] by J.D Biersdorfer with David Pogue. Links mentioned in this podcast include: Steve Holden's iPad Review (Part 1) Steve Holden's iPad Review (Part…
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Steve Holden's Blog 