We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of a new Phanfare iOS app, fbTV, which will enable you to show musical slideshows of your Facebook photos on your TV through an Apple TV device.
Here is how it works. You need an Apple TV attached to your TV. Purchase the fbTV app for your [...]

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Apparently Google is having trouble getting TV content providers and distributors on board with Google TV. No surprise there. Traditional cable companies and other players have little incentive to give up control to Google, whom they view more as a competitor than a partner.
Android was accepted by incumbents precisely because the carriers and handset [...]

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Let me preface this by saying that although I have a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, I know very little about electricity. My degree is really in computer systems.
One of the benefits of blogging is that I get to suggest untenable solutions to other people’s problems. Ok, Here goes.
So the issue with the iPhone 4 [...]

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In the United States, high-end Android phones and iPhones are essentially the same price. The Droid X was $199 after rebate, and the iPhone 4 is $199.
Apple made a very deliberate decision in the US to achieve that price parity. They gave an exclusive to ATT, a weaker carrier, in exchange for a whopping [...]

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At this point I have removed most of the Motorola widgets from my home screen of my Droid X. I have customized my home screen with weatherbug, something I could not do on the iPhone. I have downloaded Android Task Killer.
I have figured out my way around the interface. It is just not as [...]

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I am one of those folks who is forever in search of better ergonomics in my typing and pointing on computers. How troubled am I? Well, at one point in 2004, when I decided that my IBM Thinkpad, with its nubby, was the ultimate experience, I bought a crazy black Thinkpad accessory keyboard from IBM [...]

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The engineering community is no great fan of Adobe Flash. We use it because we have to, not because we want to. Most Flash apps are written by people with a softer set of skills and a greater sense of aesthetics. Real engineers don’t want to program in Flash. So any effort to kill [...]

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I played with the iPad at home for 4 hours last night and formed some early impressions:

It’s a bit heavier than you might desire when holding it on your lap.
The Amazon Kindle is a better book reader for traveling because the Kindle battery will last a week or more and the Kindle is half the [...]

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We just bought two iPads, about 30 minutes apart. Our order IDs are 10,000 apart. Assuming those order IDs are sequential, and they appear to be, then Apple is selling 20,000 iPads per hour. Assuming most orders are for the $499 model, and that people are only buying 1 per order, that means Apple is [...]

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I returned from vacation to find out that the 3 year old Western Digital boot drive on my Mac Pro failed and the machine would not boot. That gave me pause for reflection on what I really needed to recover to get up and running. Here is my list:

Need to install OS X on a [...]

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