I had to order products from different web sites in the past week. I’m not a big fan of having to open each individual web site to get the tracking number and plug it into the carrier’s web site just to see the status.In the past, I would have normally used a web service like [...]
If there is one thing Google has pushed for some time now (besides advertisements), its the idea that what you can do on your desktop can easily be done on the web. Continuing its march to a web-centric world, Google revealed the Chrome Web Store and Chrome OS. The Chrome Web Store offers a directory [...]
Starting off this streaming music roundup is Microsoft’s Zune Pass. Zune Pass is Microsoft’s all-you-can-listen streaming music service. For $14.99/month, you receive access to listening to every track in the Zune catalog on your computer, the Xbox 360, and Windows Phone 7. Will these well rounded number of ways to access music help Zune shine [...]
Little by little, our media is moving from the desktop into the cloud. Flickr and Picasa have done it for photos. YouTube, Netflix, and Hulu did it with video. But there is one form of media that seems to be lagging behind: music. Coming up in this series, I’ll be reviewing the various services that [...]
Although I have my own personal web site, some people just want the facts. This is where a personal landing/splash page would come in handy. The two with the biggest buzz as of late are About.me (currently in invitation-only beta) and Flavors.me. I’ve played with both services to figure out what best suits me. In [...]
Earlier this year, I gave Windows Live Sync 2011 beta a try and came away unimpressed and rather annoyed. Since then, Live Sync has come out of beta, been renamed Live Mesh, and has its synced storage size increased from 2GB to 5GB. Have the previous bugs been fixed? Is the 5GB of space enough [...]
While browsing the Android Market several nights ago, I came across the Wardrive application. Wardriving is the practice of finding wireless access points while on the move (in person or in a vehicle). The Wardrive app records any and all wireless access points it finds into a database with the location of those access points [...]
Lately, I’ve been writing about my frustrations with Comcast, the available options of Internet Streaming devices, and what I feel my parents should do. Originally, my mission for my parents was to save money while still getting as much programming as possible. Now that I have a general idea of what my parents should do, [...]
Earlier this month, I took a look at the various methods for accessing streaming media. It wasn’t just used as an informative piece for the public, but as a way for me to figure out which device would be best for my parents as I continue their quest to drop cable. Within this month and [...]
Internet Explorer has been an evil being to web developers since the days of Internet Explorer 6. Its lack of supporting web standards has prevented developers from being able to write once, work everywhere, which should be the spirit of the web. For consumers, it was overly bloated with features, slow, would not render some [...]
