A tale of two-ish keyboards
A month or so ago I came across a video about someone building their own keyboard. I was sort of fascinated by the project because I'd noticed how my hands became contorted whenever I needed to type. My dad had owned an Apple ergonomic keyboard when was a teenager, and I'd used it lots of times while I was playing my way through Myst. I didn't ever really [...]
(My) 2009 Birthday Wishlist
A month from tomorrow is my Birthday. Whenever it comes to a holiday or event that involves some gift receiving on my part, the question inevitably comes "What do you want for [...]
Shameless plug for a contest entry
As the title says, this is a shameless plug. If you don't know what that is, it's a common expression that means "I have no excuse for this except my own self-interests. I'm [...]
Gadget FlashBack: The Apple Newton MessagePad
What can possibly more be said about the Newton, that hasn't been said already? I'm not really sure, but something drove me to own one... actually, I owned a MessagePad [...]
My DIY NAS
I've been looking forward to posting this for weeks, nay months. I would have to say that this project started out as an entirely different project early on. I stumbled [...]
Kindle iPhone App
I've never been really into ebooks. The primary trouble has always been a matter of how to read them. Computers are inconvenient because they're only in one place. Though I do [...]
Throwing Skribit into the mix
It's been a few weeks since I setup the blog. I've had a goal to post often, and by often I mean about 3 times a week. I did not realize what that meant at the time I think. I [...]
The Safari 4 Beta – some notes.
In a few words: I don't like it... much
I need to be fair though. I need to offer at least arguments for why I don't like Safari 4, and it's important to note that in spite of [...]
iPhone Apps
iPhone apps have been around as long as I've had an iPhone.I got my iPhone about 6 months in, on Christmas of 07, as many people did. Apple hadn't yet allowed iPhone apps [...]
The Atomic Cube
After I got married, I wanted my wife to have a better computer. She was using a 2nd-hand windows computer that was pretty under-powered. She barely used it, so it wasn't [...]
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