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Various articles about mobile technology
March 30, 2011
Surround any link to an Android app in the Google Play Store/Web Market with “qr” “/qr” in brackets and this plugin will create a clickable QR code for that app. AppBrain links are supported as well. You can also just supply the name of the app, but the first two methods are recommended. The appearance [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Random Tech | Tagged Android apps, Android Market, Android Market QR Codes WP Plugin, AppBrain, Generator, Google Play, Market links, Play Store, QR codes, QR codes WordPress plugin, WordPress plugin, WP
March 13, 2011
Apple’s commercials for its mobile devices are usually full of buzzwords, exaggerations and people looking possessed and/or born-again. I personally think they’re a bit creepy. Late night talk show host Conan O’Brien decided to make his own version of the iPad 2 launch video – a more honest one, if you will. I have also [...]
Posted in Anti Apple, Featured Posts, Random Tech | Tagged Anti Apple, Apple, Conan O'Brien, iPad, iPad 2, iPhone 4, JLE, Parody, Promo videos, Promos, Spoofs, Travesty
February 19, 2011
Have you ever wondered why the screen on your 32-inch TV is way more than 10 times bigger than the display on your 3.2-inch phone? Or why the screen on your 3.7-inch smartphone is over twice as big as your old 2.4-inch dumbphone? The answer is most likely no, but here’s an explanation anyway. This [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Random Tech, Tutorials | Tagged Displays, Explanation, Inches, Measured, Measurement, Screen comparisons, Screen sizes, Touchscreen sizes
February 17, 2011
I already discussed this in my Motorola Atrix post in early January, but I’m so excited about the possibilities of these recently announced systems-on-chips (SoC) and how they in due course will change the way we use computers. I don’t think many people realize it now — a better way of putting it is perhaps [...]
Posted in Android, Featured Posts, Guides, Random Tech | Tagged ARM Cortex A9, Computer chips, Convergence, Docks, Future of computing, GPUs, Mobile chips, Mobile processors, Nvidia, Power VR, Project Kar-El, Qualcomm, Series 6 Rogue, Snapdragon, SoC, Stark, System-on-chip, Tegra, Tegra 3, Texas Instruments, TI, TI OMAP 5
February 7, 2011
Motorola has turned Apple’s classic 1984 big brother ad against them with these promos for the world’s first Honeycomb tablet – the Xoom. Motorola’s message is obvious: now there’s a more powerful alternative to the iPad, and Apple has almost become the Big Brother of the dystopian George Orwell novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, that Apple showed [...]
Posted in Android, Anti Apple, Featured Posts, Videos | Tagged 1984, Ads, Apple, Big Brother, Commercials, George Orwell, Honeycomb tablet, iDevice, iPad, Motorola, Motorola Xoom, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Promo, Tablets, Videos
February 2, 2011
These two concept devices appeared during or shortly after CES in early January 2011, and are somewhat old news by now, but I wanted to share them nonetheless. Many promising concept devices never materialize, because financiers couldn’t be found, the projects weren’t deemed commercially viable, or because the designs were too far ahead of current [...]
Posted in Android, Featured Posts, Random Tech, Videos | Tagged Android, Concept devices, Concepts, Flip Phone, Kristian Ulrich Larsen, Razer Switchblade, Videos
January 23, 2011
In a March 2010 New York Times interview, Andy Rubin, the Godfather of Android, indirectly compared Apple with North Korea. As we all know, North Korea is a communist dictatorship without freedom of speech and with an oppressed population. Here are 6 reasons Rubin was spot on — an explanation why Apple indeed is similar [...]
Posted in Anti Apple, Featured Posts, Random Tech | Tagged Andy Rubin, Anti Apple, Apple, Dictatorship, iOS, New York Times, North Korea, Walled Garden
January 3, 2011
Imagine you’re sitting in the corner of a small room in an abandoned cottage in the outskirts of a desert village. You have taken shelter in an attempt to recuperate, catch your breath. Just moments ago, you ran away in desperation because you were about to die. Bullets came from nowhere — you miraculously managed [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Games + Emu, Random Tech | Tagged 3D games, Bad Company 2, Battlefield: Bad Company 2, BC2, Computers, Dice, Games, Gaming, James Cameron, Multiplayer games, PC, Reviews, Squad Deathmatch
September 16, 2010
This web comic from the top of today’s reddit Android section highlights the difference between Android and the iPhone’s iOS: one of the systems promotes openness, and the other has a “walled garden” with closed and restricted environments. It’s pretty hilarious.
Posted in Android, Anti Apple, Featured Posts, For Fun | Tagged Android, Apple, Closed, Google, iOS, iPad, iPhone, LOL, Restricted, Walled Garden
May 12, 2010
British actor, author, comedian, movie director and general tech lover Stephen Fry said in a recent post on his website that many of his fellow-countrymen would “rather eat poo than to be seen dead” with an iPad, and he mentioned how the opinions about Apple have been more polarized than usual in the last couple [...]
Posted in Anti Apple, Featured Posts, Random Tech | Tagged Android, Andy Rubin, Anti, Anti Apple, App Store, Apple, Censorship, Closed, Collection, Criticism, Critique, Hub, iPad, iPhone, iPod, Posts, Steve Jobs, Sucks
April 12, 2010
One of the devices I’ve been most curious about the past couple of months, particularly in late 2009, is Nokia’s Maemo 5 powered N900. After the slightly disappointing Symbian^1, which failed to bring something new to the table, the Linux based, open-source OS Maemo 5, that features tight Internet integration, seemed like the perfect way [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Random Tech | Tagged Hands-on, Impressions, Maemo, Meego, Nokia N900, Review
April 4, 2010
In my early teens around the mid-90s, when I was a gamer and aspiring programmer, there was a good-natured schism of sorts between PC (‘IBM PC compatibles’) users and Mac users. It was like the computer nerds were split into two camps. We didn’t actually know much about Macintoshes, but somehow we knew we didn’t [...]
Posted in Anti Apple, Featured Posts, Random Tech | Tagged Android, Apple, Blows, Criticism, Google, Inferior, iPad, iPhone, iPod, List, Sucks
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