September 2010

Many years ago I noticed that my hear­ing is not only pretty good, I would say that I have acute hear­ing. I often seem to hear things oth­ers don’t. The prob­lem with that is because all the sounds prove to be very dis­tract­ing. I often seek the refuge of silence — be it in my […]

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Google just announced some really nice updates to it’s Maps appli­ca­tion for Android devices.  The first addi­tion is Walk­ing Nav­i­ga­tion. Like nearly all releases by Google the nav­i­ga­tion fea­ture is  tagged as “Beta.” Now, you have the abil­ity to get walk­ing direc­tions within the Maps app. As with the computer-based Google Maps, the Maps app […]

This may strike you as odd  that some­one who is a self-professed tech nerd (or maybe just a nerd, gen­er­ally) and early adopter wants to push back from the social media buf­fet. For quite some time, I’ve won­dered if I suf­fer from an undi­ag­nosed case of ADD, because I am eas­ily, and fre­quently, dis­tracted. The […]

Most of us are accus­tomed to auto-fill when using Google, and other search engines, but check out what Google announced today. Google Instant Search will be avail­able later today, and should be avail­able on Android mobile devices later this fall. The instant pro­duc­tion of results as you type is pretty impres­sive. What do you think? Do […]

The folks at TmoNews, a great site for news about prod­ucts on T-Mobile, are report­ing  that HTC will likely reveal the HD3, which will serve as a Win­dows Phone 7 upgrade from HD2 (run­ning Win­dows Mobile 6.5), at a press event next Wednes­day in Lon­don.  The expected launch date is Wednes­day, Novem­ber 17th. Reported specs for […]

The Sam­sung Fas­ci­nate will be released tomor­row, but a quick stop by the Ver­i­zon Wire­less site revealed a Buy-One-Get-One-Free (BOGO) offer. Now I am sure that Ama­zon and some other retail­ers will offer steep dis­counts on the Fas­ci­nate for new cus­tomers. (The T-Mobile Vibrant recently was offered for just a penny.) How­ever, if you’re an […]