Category: Gadget Links

Reading Time: < 1 minute Twittering Your Home on MacDevCenter: “Interest in the messaging service Twitter is clearly on the rise… and while most people are figuring out how to use Twitter for its intended purpose–social networking–I’d like to share a few notes on my more prosaic experiment of using it as part of my…

Reading Time: 2 minutes NYT: New data on the problems of “multitasking” on 43 Folders: “Yesterday’s New York Times front page ran an article pulling together the results of several recent studies looking at how interruptions and attempts to multitask can affect the quality of work as well as the length of recovery time…. My…

Reading Time: < 1 minute Apple IPhone Has Wireless Industry Scrambling to Keep Up on Wired: “…the one million customer inquiries that AT&T Chief Operating Officer Randall Stephenson said his company has received regarding the iPhone are not a million pre-orders, and no one will know how much of a chunk Apple will eventually bite…

Reading Time: < 1 minute The V Battle on VoIP Watch: “My view is that with VONAGE stock now at 3 dollars a share that there is panic in New Jersey despite the press release on Friday that was done to ally fears amongst investors. With the amount of money Vonage has in the bank,…

Reading Time: < 1 minute “Make” Makes the Right Call on High Voltage on GlennLog: “{Make Magazine} killed an article because they worried the article might kill (or at least severely injure) readers. The editors published the emailed conversation that they had with their technical advisory board about a piece that would explain how to…

Reading Time: 2 minutes Birmingham Hip, or How to Sell Fresh Hips to Boomers on Medgadget: “In an effort to help their physically active baby-boomer patients, orthopedic surgeons are turning to a new but growing technique known as ‘hip resurfacing’…. This bone-sparing procedure promises to last much longer than traditional hip replacements while allowing a…

Reading Time: < 1 minute Winter, Round Two on philly.com: “Only the second major storm of the winter slid into the Philadelphia region last night, causing widespread accidents along with fear about the morning commute. But early risers found mostly wet or slushy roads, as temperatures above freezing rebuffed the overnight threat of ice.” ‘I…

Reading Time: < 1 minute Tour of California Prologue: Levi Delivers Again on Spare Cycles: “Those of us who were there last year should have expected the finale to today’s opener, but it still surprised the hell out of us. Virtually unknown Jason Donald set the fastest time as the seventh rider out. No one…

Reading Time: < 1 minute Hidden Costs of a Windows Vista Upgrade on news.yahoo.com: This article from PCworld.com discusses the time investment as well as the costs associated with upgrading an existing PC to Microsoft Windows Vista. A Quirky Mountain Is Keeping Its Quirks in The New York Times: A really interesting article about Mad…