Tweet Testing. It’s the most important part of engineering, whether its software or hardware. Yet all too often, it ends up getting sidestepped to get product out the door. It is woefully under-estimated in budgets and schedules. Then once the schedule starts slipping, engineers have trouble fighting the urge to [...]
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iPhone prices to drop on Verizon and AT&T?
Tweet It’s basically accepted as fact by now that the iPhone is coming to Verizon. When? Probably this Christmas, or early in 2011. The point is it’s going to happen, and when it does, things are going to get interesting. AT&T is currently believed to be paying somewhere around $350-$400 [...]
Is Consumer Reports misleading the public about iPhone 4?
Tweet By now everyone in the world has heard that Apple’s shiny new iPhone 4 allegedly has a fatal flaw worse than the Death Star. Consumer Reports claims that their ”engineers have confirmed that iPhone 4 has an antenna problem…” and that it “…really is only with the iPhone 4.” Oh really? [...]
iPad Tip: Quickly jump to the top of a webpage
Tweet I found this by accident, but it really comes in handy, especially while reading long web pages. Just tap the status bar anywhere along the top of the screen.
Sedona is truly beautiful
Tweet Took this in Sedona, AZ last April while visiting my grandparents. I used my Dad’s Nikon D80.
Verizon-Motorola Decide, “We don’t need females to buy the DROID”
Apple Checkmate’s Music Labels In Purchase of Lala
Google Announces Chrome OS, Microsoft Cries
Tweet Google has announced Chrome OS, an operating system built off of the Linux kernel for desktop computers and netbooks. Are you as unsurprised as I am? I hope to god Microsoft isn’t. But then again, ever since the release of Windows XP, Microsoft has been running around like a [...]
Can the Pre really save Palm?
Tweet Well, Sprint has hopped on the touchscreen bandwagon in a last-ditch effort at mitigating their churn rate. They’ve entered into an exclusive agreement to sell the Palm Pre, Palm’s last-ditch effort at avoiding the use of past-tense in their Wikipedia entry. Are you noticing a trend? The term “Hail [...]
Google Adwords Epic Fail!
Tweet Artificial intelligence is still a ways off :). Each year there is a competition known well by those in the field of artificial intelligence called the Loebner Prize. The ultimate goal of artificial intelligence is to make it indistinguishable from real intelligence (so someday geeks like me can just [...]