Seriously trivial thoughts
A few years ago I tried a free subscription to an online storage company. It was ok, but I ended up deciding it was too slow to be usable. These days, however, my bandwidth is a little more robust and since I’m getting into photography more, I’ve decided to give online storage another try.
[dc]O[/dc]n June 23rd, I stupidly forgot my 64GB WiFi+Cellular iPad Mini 2 in the seat-back pocket on a United Airlines flight to Colorado. I was really bummed and dutifully filed a lost item report. I got a little hopeful on June 29th when I got a Find-My-iPhone email telling me that “Mini Me,” my cleverly …
I’ve been looking for a good Bluetooth speaker for my desk at work and I finally found one: the Cambridge SoundWorks OontZ Angle PLUS. Interestingly enough, what I like about it is the “feature” it doesn’t have compared to other speakers: voice prompts. Yeah, sounds stupid, but all of the other ones I tried would …
Wireless earbuds with no cables by Earin. These look very cool, but geez there is no way I wouldn’t drop one and lose it somewhere–think grass in a park ;-). Pretty smart method of charging the buds simultaneously in a charging tube. A Kickstarter project, but are supposed to ship this month. $230. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ic6bn-uk1Q]
This looks very interesting…of course, I’d hate to lose 128GB of files in some pocket change… SanDisk rolls out world’s smallest 128GB USB 3.0 flash drive – CNET
I never could get into the 8-bit world of Mindcraft, but Legos…now you’re talking about something I can embrace! [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqaqaiSMhJ8]
Browse to Palm.com and you will be redirected to MyNewPalm.com. Not much there, but the promise of something “coming soon.” No one seems to know what, if anything. I gotta admit, I loved my Palm devices and would love to see something new, although writing Graffiti has permanently made my actual handwriting forever illegible. mynewpalm
A nice article on why Chrome uses so much RAM and what you can do about it. Why Chrome Uses So Much Freaking RAM
I gotta say that although I often used the Weather channel app to get my weather info, I’ve never really particularly liked it. It just seemed like it made me do too much work to get the basic info I wanted. The navigation always struck me as awkward and clumsy. Anyways, yesterday I discovered Fresh …
This was pretty interesting, albeit not that surprising. Keep in mind these kids were born around the year 2000 which should give you some perspective (and make some of us feel old) 16 Random Things You Should Probably Know About Today’s Teens