Category: Technology
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Future of mobile?
Would you use a mobile device as your ONLY device? It’s an interesting question that up until now, I would have given a resounding and blunt “No”, but all that has changed. HP just announced a new Windows 10 Mobile device called the Elite X3, which according to their claims…
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New tech, a geeks purpose in life
This is it, my new laptop that will be in my hands sometime this weekend. An HP Spectre x360 2-in-1 (Model 13-4103dx) if you’re interested in seeing the specs. It’s taken me over a month to narrow it down to this point and thankfully its not going to cost me…
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Curse You Internet Ads!
I read tech news every day, literally. I take my hour long lunch break and fire up Microsoft News, RSS feed readers, and even go to some email links received from the previous day. What burns me up the most is the proliferation of and the aggressive in your face…
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Thank you for calling Hell, er, IT Support
There’s one thing that I dread more than anything else in my life lately. That one thing is the phone call from the Father-In-Law (FIL) asking me to setup his new computer with the added detail that he “won’t open the box until I get there” which translates into “I’m…
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Tech Monday: Nasa Apollo Programmer: Margaret Hamilton
Nasa Apollo Programmer: Margaret Hamilton A colleague at work posted this article to our internal social media service and I was fascinated with the article. I was taken back by the fact that a woman in the 60’s was so involved with the space program to the extent that she…
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Tech Monday: China hacked US firms despite cyberpact
China hacked US firms despite cyberpact It’s amazing how the governments of countries say one thing but do something completely opposite later on. I think its absolute crap that the US and China agreed not to hack each other and steal intellectual property [IP]. It’s like telling a child that…
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Tech Monday: Lenovo Takes a Stand Against Microsoft’s Surface
Lenovo Takes a Stand Against Microsoft’s Surface This is an interesting one this week and highlights how cut throat the PC industry is starting to become. It’s always been cut throat, but lately these companies are out for blood in my opinion. Microsoft has always had the ability to manufacture…
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Tech Monday: Tesla’s Crazy Fast Model X SUV
We Drove Tesla’s Crazy Fast Model X SUV I’m really really really interested in electric motor vehicles! I don’t think they’re the wave of the future, but rather they’re a transition technology that will give people the option to embrace something other than a gasoline fueled vehicle. Hybrids are great…
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Tech Monday: Fifth Ammendment and the Selfie
Take a selfie, post it up/The next five years….. you’ll be in prison? In this week’s Tech Monday review, we’re taking a bit of a diversion and focusing on something that technology makes possible and has become a huge privacy concern: Selfies. We’re all too aware of selfies, what they…
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Tech Monday: 3D Computer Chips
Ok, I’m going to try and keep up with a weekly thing based on one of my core passions: technology. I read a lot of techy stuff on the Internet that truly is fascinating and exciting because we’re living the future we dreamed about 25 years ago. Anyway, here we…
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