Boldly professing the obvious since 2009
CNN’s tech geniuses are at it again. After telling us that the iPad2 was going to have “dueling operating systems so you can do more,” a new article about the forthcoming iPhone update explains, “The term “HSPA+ is a reference to high-speed processing.” And this after explaining that a dual-core processor “is considered faster at [...] Read more »
CNet reports that approximately 92% of US children have “some type of online presence” by age 2, according to a study commissioned by online security company AVG. This, of course, brings up interesting questions about these kids’ privacy as they grow older: AVG Chief Executive J.R. Smith acknowledged that “it’s completely understandable why proud parents [...] Read more »
About a month ago, I got a little device that scans printed text into my computer line-by-line. Well, that’s not entirely accurate. The truth is that I got it about a year and a half ago, but when it arrived, I discovered that—despite having seen online that it worked with Macs—it didn’t have a Mac-compatible [...] Read more »
This site recently went through a back-end upgrade from PHP 4 to PHP 5, which allows more flexibility and should improve site performance. Unfortunately, the upgrade wasn’t especially smooth, with the process involving quite a few hiccups within the WordPress framework I use. I couldn’t relably add or activate plugins—either getting a blank screen after [...] Read more »
Apple has released its long-awaited tablet computer to mixed reviews. Some apparently expected the so-called “JesusTablet” to have the ability to raise the dead in its first version, expressing disappointment at the lack of a built-in camera, the lack of Adobe Flash support, no GPS, and assorted other perceived shortfalls. Those criticizing the new release [...] Read more »