Daily Archive for June 3rd, 2008

Oh boy! New Plasma toy!

Pure coolness!!!

And for just $15.  Nice!

Read more on Gizmodo.

Let’s agree to disagree?

This story on Google’s new favicon claims that Google is google and belongs to the people.

I disagree!

Google is a giant monster of a company that hopes to consume all of world’s information, stop time, and lock the universe onto itself. Google is an ego-centric monster!

But, alas, their competition is even worse. Thus, I am a gmail user; I search using Google; etc.

I hope that some strong competition would continue to exist so Google would continue to improve (which I have not, personally, seen in a while).

Amazing new toy from Adobe — Acrobat, online!

This article on Adobe’s new toy that I found on Computerworld led me to www.acrobat.com.

And let me tell you… WOW!

This thing seamlessly imports my big 40-page Word 2007 document in seconds!  Formatting is all there.  WOW

Adobe has yet to announce pricing for the Acrobat.com collaboration service, which will be sold on a subscription basis.

… the company hopes to woo subscribers by combining the Web-style collaboration capabilities of a Google Docs with the fine-grained document layout and presentation capabilities of Microsoft Word

No sh*t?  Awesome!!

As-is, the toy looks amazing.

Definitely subscribe and try this.

Home’s where you make it

Interesting article I’ve read.

Makes me want to travel.  Makes me want to experience new things, roll in the mud, camp, have to catch my own food for today, etc.

We board the plane with our own pillows, blankets and inflatable cushions. We bring ear plugs so we don’t hear anything and a sleep mask so we don’t have to see. If you want to bring your own air, you can buy an “ultra-mini air supply” for $129. Also there is a concoction we can spray the surrounding area and the surfaces because we might be contaminated by a virus. Now we are ready to travel to an exotic destination and feel we are in home in bed.

When we arrive at the hotel, we can bring our own bedding for those who are obsessed about who was the person who slept in the bed the night before. Also there is a $79 Nano-UV Disinfection Light to kill bacteria, complete with remote control. I guess that is so we can stand at the door and zap lavatory surfaces, bedding and telephones rather than look at the spectacular view from our windows — which don’t open so we can’t hear or see or smell anything outside.

Well, I’ve booked a ticket to Chicago yesterday.  Then I’ll be off to New Hampshire.  Then I’m not yet sure, but I’m sure I’ll find something good.

New toy from Griffin

Oh, this is nice!

My girl and I both have iPods.  Now imagine if we had iPhones, too.

We’d have to kill eachother over who gets to use the charger first.  Also chargers all over the place ain’t pretty.

This toy seems to be all that we need.  Ebay out the now-useless chargers.

Cool!

So, I hear the new iPhone’s underway

June 9th, they all say.

The Telegraph published a short story of what they think the new toy would look/talk/walk like.

I have mixed feelings about this…  I’ve been a Microsoft supporter for quite some time and really I see no true reason to consider a switch.  Although, I’ve been quite annoyed quite a few times by the lack of EASE of access to the functionality that’s embedded into my phone (Mot Q 9C).

My phone’s quite advanced.  Really, one of the latest additions to the market when I got it a few months back.  Many megapixel camera, video everything, etc.  But all this is NOT easy to use.  I love iPhone’s smoothness and it’s ease of access to everything.

Although, for emails and texting a normal keyboard with push-down-keys is better than iPhone’s tiny on-screen keys.

Plus the Exchange connectivity…  But I heard Apple promised to fix that, right?

All-in-all I’m not as excited about the new toy as I hear others are.

Will wait and see.