Posts Tagged ‘technology’

Transfer your photos wirelessly

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Eye-Fi. All opinions are 100% mine. There’s something to be said about great ideas and this is just one of those. If you own a digital camera, then you know exactly what it’s like to have a big memory card...

Anatomy of an Android Application

photo credit: Josh Russell There are four building blocks to an Android application: * Activity * Intent Receiver * Service * Content Provider Not every application needs to have all four, but your application will be written with some combination of these. Once you have decided what components you need for your application, you should list...

Power without the mess

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Powermat. All opinions are 100% mine. I’ve been reading about Powermat for some time now and it always great when I get a Sponsored Post about something I’m interested in. It gives me an opportunity to look a bit closer...

Excalibur Almaz in the Isle of Man

Today I got the opportunity to check out a space vehicle, which is probably the closest I’ve ever been to something that could make it’s way out of the hold of Earth’s gravity. It was the Almaz capsule being deployed by Excalibur Almaz as part of their foray into space...

Google Chrome 2.0 Pre-Beta

There’s a new release of Google’s browser, Chrome that is doing the rounds; which has a set of new features including support for Greasemonkey (Yeay!). There’s still some way to go before it has all the features I’d need to make it my mainstream browser (I’m just too comfortable in...

10 reasons why GMail rocks

I found an excellent post on LifeHacker talking about 10 great things that GMail does. This is putting aside the mundane email handling, massive storage space, spam filtering etc; but instead looks at features that makes GMail exception. Here’s a summary: Themes: You can completely change the way GMail looks using...

Isn’t technology great

I was thinking about technology on my way back from work this afternoon (I have a 15 minute walk which is a great time to think). I was thinking about the first PC I ever got which was an 8086 (with a Turbo button to boost the speed from 4.77...

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