There’s been some speculation lately about a mini-iPhone which would stream music from your home computer instead of having significant onboard storage. Whether that’s true or not, the idea of streaming music from your computer at home isn’t so far fetched. There are a few enabling technologies already in place that make this possible. MobileMe […]
Which programming language should I learn? I see this question all the time. In 2011, I think the answer is becoming easier than it used to. And that doesn’t mean there’s any one language that’s “winningâ€, or that’s the language to bet on for the future. No, in fact, the industry seems to be going […]
I remember an old episode of some TV news based sitcom, where the star was writing obituaries for people who weren’t dead yet. The idea stuck in my mind for some reason. I’ll bet newspapers still do that. There are all kinds of news stories you can write in advance. For example, you could write […]
I love the idea and technology of the Kinect .. it sounds like the perfect toy for playing some more physical types of games with my son. Kinectimals is cute and he likes to play it. But what spoils the whole thing is the awkward sign-in process in a lot of games. Microsoft apparently has […]
I’ve been wanting to play with a web framework for building a desktop application. Heard good things about SproutCore so I set out to install it, but ran into a number of roadblocks that made it difficult to do on Windows. The one that made me give up was trying to install the Ruby sproutcore […]
I’ve been shopping for a TV. If you’re not shopping for a TV, you may want to skip this post. For a lot of people this means walking into a store, looking at a few TV’s, picking one, and being done with it. But not me. I enjoy digging into the technology behind the sets, […]
I have a number of photos in my iPhoto library that came from a scanner, and when I scanned them, I had multiple photos on the flatbed. So I had a photo like this in my photo library: While there are tools that will automatically find the embedded photos and separate them, there’s an easy […]
So you’re a Windows Mobile 6 developer working on a C++ application, and you’re using the WebBrowser control (which, I guess, is an instance of Pocket IE, the mobile version of Internet Explorer circa IE 6). Your application is hosting a web page, and on that page you want to have a button, and when […]
Has Netflix Canada added any new movies since launch? Doesn't look like it to me. # Xbox Dashboard Update: Netflix Canada on the 360. So far the UI looks nicer than the PS3 one – the movie box shots are bigger anyway. # Looks like there's one new movie on Netflix Canada .. http://www.netflix.ca/WiMovie/Into-Temptation/70123368?trkid=809936 # […]
Best thing about the Mac app store is it gives a real financial incentive to make a Mac app that follows the rules. # Jobs dissing 7" tablets doesn't make sense. He says 7" makes things too small to tap, but you can make UI elements any size you want. # Windows already has an […]