Category Archives: technology

Jason Calacanis blogged earlier this week about the Cult of Amazon Prime, and made some great points.  I’m a huge fan of everything Amazon, including Prime and their Kindle e-reader devices.  I made a list of why I’m a huge … Continue reading →

Twitter gets a bad rap from people who don’t want to read what people ate for lunch.  But there are some redeeming qualities for twitter for some people: Twitter is a great way to get targeted news (I like to … Continue reading →

Back in June of this year, Steve Jobs made a comment about the iPad and tablet computers and his vision of computing: “PCs are going to be like trucks. Less people will need them… This transformation is going to make … Continue reading →

I’m not even sure what you call it, but I’d like to find a open source or hosted (software as a service) service solution to allow me to create simple web applications, primarily related to simple database and workflow systems. … Continue reading →

Billmonk.com is finally completely dead (to my knowledge).  I’ve enjoyed the free web service since Feb 2006, but after months of random error messages it appears to be complete dead.  As I try to recreate my outstanding IOU’s, I’ve been … Continue reading →

Here is some free software for Windows that I enjoy: Paint.net – photo editing CDBurnerXP – burn CD’s and DVD’s WinDirStat – little app that shows you the size of your folders (very useful if you’re trying to clean out … Continue reading →

So I was thinking to myself in class last night while we were discuss various network security topics that email providers should digitally sign (with public-key encryption) their emails to verify that the emails aren’t being spoofed. I figure, one … Continue reading →

So in my daily interactions with the convenience of communication through voicemails, emails, and now social networking I’m thinking that the direction email is going to move is that follow the social networking trend. I think the concept of a … Continue reading →

If I had direct influence of a technology product company, I’d make the coolest all-in-one device ever.  People want fewer toys that do more things and I think we’re willing to pay for it.  Many attempts at convergence have failed … Continue reading →