Note: certain names have been changed to protect the guilty. 1984 Beep, beep. I looked out the window. It was Cookie Monster in his cherry red Isuzu Impulse (girl car :-). I grabbed my jacket off the kitchen table, flipped off the lights, and locked up behind me–it was going to be a long night. [...]
Say you want to take a very long trip with just your 32GB iPad, and while traveling you would like to catch up on a lot of movies and TV shows, but your 32GB iPad can only hold about 30 hours of content. What can you do? Fortunately you can store your extra content on [...]
I just read this was possible. (It never occurred to me to try.) Just connect up your iPhone (or possibly any other phone) as illustrated to the USB iPad Camera Connection Kit (sold separately) and voilà!, you can import. This old-school wired method is faster than using Dropbox. However I still prefer Dropbox–I find it [...]
Cold. Dead. Fish. That is what I thought about 20 years ago when some loyal customers from San Diego took me to a quaint beach-side sushi bar. It was the first time I’d seen real sushi. Before that, all I had was a scene from The Breakfast Club. Gawd! It sucked. I tried the $10 [...]
Yes, the thought of two vintage computing devices battling as digital gladiators in a cage match to the death under the watchful eye of our supercomputer overlord, the HAL 9000, is amusing at best. But this is Pi Day, and what better way to celebrate than with silicon blood. Who knows, perhaps this did happen [...]