Technology with an Edge

First Impressions of the Kindle Fire

2011-12-25T05:38:00.000-07:00

I am holding in my hands my new Kindle Fire. Anyone who knows me knows I love to play with, explorer, and experiment with new gadgets and bee technology. I received the Fire as a Christmas present and spent three hours downlouding apps and seeing what this new Kindle can do. The perfect Christmas Eve. Two years ago, I bought a 2nd Generation Kindle. When I bought it, I was unsure

2011-12-08T15:13:00.001-07:00

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2011-09-18T08:10:00.001-06:00

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Twitter: Different Clients for Different Needs

2011-05-21T22:36:00.000-06:00

How do you access Twitter? From a web browser? An application running on your computer? Text messages on your mobile phone? Applications on your mobile phone? Through a third-party website? As Twitter has grown, so has the Twitter app industry. To begin with, you could only use Twitter on their website. Now there are literally thousands and thousands of ways to use Twitter. Twitdom

The Future of Game Consoles

2011-05-05T23:01:00.000-06:00

Original Nintendo. Image from TOFURIOUS blog, originally from Jen May blog. I'm not a huge console video game player. I played on the original Nintendo at friends' houses as a kid, and we had a Commodor with paddles and a few games we got at a garage sale growing up, but most games I played were on computers, our TRS Color Computer and Tandy 1000, and later my 286, the first computer that

Where's Waldo: A look at cell phones, GPS, and MapMyRun

2011-05-04T04:09:00.001-06:00

Get Smart shoe phone. Image from Slice of SciFi. There was a time that the idea of people talking over long distances was the stuff of fantasy, science fiction, or even witchcraft. Who would have imagined a telephone in every house? But science fiction became reality. Later, a telephone was something confined to one place, connected to a wall. The idea of a portable phone, one you could

The Art of Socialization: Blogging to Twitter, Part 2

2011-04-28T12:22:00.000-06:00

So you know the value of publishing your blog posts to Twitter. Now how do you do it? Some blog platforms have this ability built-in (LiveJournal, for instance), while others require a plug-in or a third-party product. Whether you use a built-in feature, a plug-in, or third-party product, there are pluses and minuses for each solution. My experience with blogging is with LiveJournal, Blogger,

The Future of Delicious

2011-04-27T23:32:00.000-06:00

One problem with the Internet has always been to keep track of the sites you like. This was true twenty years ago, and, with the constant expansion of the Internet, it is even more true now. Back in the 90s when I was first on the Internet, I used the bookmarks in my web browser. This worked to a point, but it causes problems if you need to access your sites when you're on another computer or

Education Revolution: Online Education

2011-04-27T15:27:00.000-06:00

Image from MBA for Better Future Since earliest university-like schools were founded by the Roman Catholic Church in the 600s, education has been identified with a classroom setting. Students go to a building or room and a teacher, lecturer, or professor stands up and teaches them. But in the Information Age and the age of the Internet, this is changing. Online classes in various forms and

The Art of Socialization: Blogging to Twitter, Part 1

2011-04-22T11:42:00.000-06:00

Why do you write a blog? Whether you write as a place to share your thoughts or activities, a place to share your art or the things you love, a place to promote your business, are a step in changing the world, chances are, you write to be read. A blog with no readers is just a personal diary. One of the big hot things on the web right now is social networking. What used to be done in clubs

Twitter: The Epitome of the Information Age

2011-04-18T04:05:00.001-06:00

I started using Twitter January 11, 2009, three and a half years after the company started. For those people not aware, Twitter is a service where you can follow other people and post short, 140 character "microblogs" called Tweets that your friends, or whoever, can read. The idea of Twitter was born from a desire to have a text-based dispatch service, so people could text on their phone and

Enforcing Laws on the Internet

2011-04-13T12:29:00.000-06:00

Last night, I was reading an article on the Ars Technica blog on my Kindle. The article was entitled "Consumer groups skeptical about new Kerry-McCain privacy bill". It started me thinking about enforcement on the Internet. You can read it here: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/04/consumer-groups-skeptical-about-new-kerry-mccain-privacy-bill.ars Privacy of your information and

The beginning of a journey...

2011-04-10T03:02:00.000-06:00

I have been working in the Information Technology industry for over fourteen years and have seen many changes, innovations, mistakes, and leaps. In this blog, I would like to explore different issues, technologies, ideas, and trends int he computer world. I would like to share my opinions and unique perspectives with whoever wants to read it. Please join me in this journey to the edge of