Recently, there has been a lot of buzz over the netbook market.  While there have been a lot of entrants into this sphere, the one who has possibly made the biggest splash- and hasn’t even officially released anything yet- is Google, with their touted Chrome OS.  For anyone who has followed the...

When people think about mobile phones and platforms today, the iPhone would most likely come to mind, followed perhaps by Android or even Sidekick. BlackBerry devices are gaining acceptance in the mainstream, if celebrity BlackBerry sightings and Beatle-esque commercials are anything to go by. No longer...

RIM has, over the past couple of years, been working on transforming the image of its BlackBerry line from “stuffy corporate tool” to “consumer-friendly mobile phone.”  It is a tough balancing act, both in delivering both the security, features, and management platform that...

In the constant see-saw of technology, I found myself using Google Chrome as my primary web browser after having used Firefox for a couple of years (and previous to that, the venerable Internet Explorer). In using Chrome, I loved the speed and the simplicity, but after a few months of usage, I found...

I have become a Google Chrome fan.  I started using the browser as an experiment for a few weeks, and haven’t looked back since (I chronicled the switch on my blog).  However, one thing I started to notice is that I would fairly frequently click on a page on my laptop (connected via wireless,...

A while back, a colleague wrote about the joys of Launchy, the excellent keystroke / application launcher for Windows.  I use Launchy every day at work on my Windows XP notebook.  But on my home Vista notebook, I’ve grown attached to another keystroke launchy, by the name of Start++. Start++,...

Apple announced today, among other things, that iTunes will go DRM-free on over 8 million tracks today, and all 10 million within a couple of months.  More importantly, they are moving to a flexible pricing tier, with tracks costing between $0.69 and $1.29. Overall, this is a big shrug of “meh”...

Yes.  After 16 months of extolling the virtues of the Microsoft Zune and its platform, I have been seduced and fallen to the Apple Side, claiming a 32GB iPod Touch in the process. It’s not the first time that I have owned an iPod.  I’ve owned a couple of the 20GB and 30GB models, the last...

Hi, I’m a PC-Becoming-a-Mac.  As a Windows user, I’ve found the interface for Mac OS easy to get accustomed to, and in fact, I like a few things better than on the Windows platform.  But it works both ways, and as with any piece of technology, Mac OS has some idiosyncrasies that annoy me....

It has been roughly a month since the release of the Zune 3.0 software for desktops and devices.  Now that I’ve had that time to work with the products, I wanted to offer several thoughts on the platform. The Good Compatibility for first generation Zune 30GB devices.  For Microsoft, this is...