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The age old question of Mac vs. PC may be coming to an abrupt end as we move more of our computing online and less revolves around what operating system we are running. Personally I have grown up with Windows. I considered myself a Microsoft nut for a long time, but the more my applications (…)

Today while randomly searching the web, I came across a site called Dopplr. The site allows for users to add the places they have visited, and then plot them to a map that can be viewed by the public, their friends or placed within a web site (check out the bottom of my profile page). (…)

I’ve had a tumblr account for around three months now. Actually it’s how I began blogging in the first place, but lately I’ve really been struggling to find its place in my daily routine. When I signed up Tumblr was a quick and dirty/easy way to post links/photos to a personalized site. As I went (…)

As you might know by now, I have an iPhone. I purchased it in July of ’08, around the time they where released. Until recently, I hadn’t ran into too many issues. About a week ago the sleep/wake button (the only button on the top of the phone) started to flake out on me. It (…)

JavaScript has been used from some  time now in order to make the user feel more like they’re in a desktop environment by manipulating DOM elements on the page. Generally JavaScript, in its basic forms, is not too hard on the browser, but with the development of the “canvas” element by Mozilla a few years (…)

Recently, the concerns over security on today’s cloud applications seem to be growing tremendously. With today’s announcement that the FTC will be investigating Google and a handful of its online web apps to determine their security, several question came to mind. The more we move our “private” documentation to the cloud, what risk are we (…)

My friend Brian is a sound tech for a company called 8th day sound. For the past eight months or so he’s been on tour with some pretty awesome music acts to some pretty amazing places. Before he left for his first tour down to South America I had mentioned to him that he start (…)

After a pretty interesting event, Apple’s new firmware brings the fire with “over one hundred” new features and “1000′s” of new API’s for developers. So what does this mean for us? Cut/Copy/Paste The long awaited feature is finally coming to the iPhone. It will be supported across all applications and works as expected. The most (…)

Today at 10am Pacific time (1pm here in Ohio) Apple will be announcing a new firmware version for the iPhone. According to Kevin Rose’s Facebook post, it will include Cut/Copy/Paste support along with MMS support. Huge news for all the iPhone people out there. Also there are rumors that to better compete with the Palm Pre they (…)

For the five thousandth time a battle of the two photo giants is about to take place. Before you get too excited there are a few things I should clarify. I have a standard point-and-shoot Sony camera, nothing fancy. I use it to take pictures of my friends and family and the occasional landscape/skyline. I’m (…)