I frequently get asked this question: “How can I find a file after I’ve copied it from my PC to my phone?”
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May 16, 2014Android File Transfer Details
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May 15, 2014Is the Moto SmartWatch Any Different?Mark Randall, who is high up on the Motorola food chain, describes today’s SmartWatches as all being “pretty crappy.” Yep. I think he nails it. Of course, the SmartWatch that his company is coming out with, the Moto 360, is going to be much, much better. Perhaps. I still believe the SmartWatches all blow it. A SmartWatch needs an audio interface, not a video one. You talk to the thing, it talks back. Sure, it can display the time, and the Moto 360 looks lovely. But . . . voce, voce, voce!
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May 14, 2014The Alt+Keypad Trick – RevisitedThe Macintosh does it easy. Accented letters and symbols are made readily accessibly by using keyboard shortcuts available anytime you use a Mac. The PC? Well, you’re kinda screwed.
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May 12, 2014Introducing Wambooli PorchCam 2.2Sometime on April 29, 2014, my Wambooli webcam — the PorchCam &mdash died. I should be used to these things.
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May 9, 2014The Phablet is Dead and Here to StayI don’t like the term phablet, used to describe those huge phones (like the Galaxy Note 3) that are part phone/part tablet. In fact, the lads at droid-life agree with me, headlining an article today that the phablet is dead. Actually, they mean that the term is dead: Large format phones are here to stay. So entrenched they are, that formerly-regular-sized phones are now going by the moniker “mini.” World: We need larger pockets. My BIX Adventure, Part IIAfter running the BASIC programming language forum on the BIX network for many weeks, I was unceremoniously dumped from my post. A powerful columnist had me removed and replaced by one of his dear pals.
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May 7, 2014My BIX Adventure, Part IBack in the mid-1980s, BYTE magazine started up an online service. It was called the BYTE Information Exchange, or BIX for short.
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May 5, 2014Creating His Own BASICThey don’t call him the Wizard of Woz for nothing. Proving once again his genius, Steve Wozniak describes the process he went through to create his own BASIC language interpreter for the original Apple computers.
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Fifty Years of the BASIC LanguageLong before it was made popular by Bill Gates and Paul Allen of Microsoft, the BASIC programming language was born at Dartmouth College in the 1960s. Its fathers were mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz.
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May 4, 2014185TB of Data – On a Cassette TapeWell, it’s not really a cassette tape, not like the ones popular in the last century. Still, Sony has developed a method of storing information on magnetic material (ala cassette tape) that really packs in the data. Could such material harken a new dawn for the floppy disk?
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