Archive for October, 2008
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008In 1938, Orson Welles and his Mercury Theater on the Air troop staged a Martian invasion the night before Halloween, nearly destroying civilization with their voices and sound effects in a period of about an hour. For the still relatively new medium of radio, the panic that spread across the country was a sobering expression […]
AT&T’s Free Wi-Fi for iPhones is Back
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008AT&T is back to offering free Wi-Fi for iPhone users (they tried this very briefly earlier in the year before shutting it off), and I know I should be more excited about it than I am. It’s cool that so many hotspots (including company-owned Starbucks) will offer up their bandwidth free to iPhone owners, but […]
The World in Your Pocket: Google Earth on iPhone
Monday, October 27th, 2008One of my favorite and most commonly used applications on my computer is Google Earth. Everyone knows about it and almost everyone has used it, so no need to explain other than to say it’s pretty much the state of the art in free online map applications.Google Earth’s release for the iPhone now makes it […]
New Heights of USB Desktop Racing Silliness
Friday, October 24th, 2008It sometimes seems like a heated competition to see who can produce the silliest things to plug into a USB port. But really, almost every serious eye-roller to come along is the handiwork of one company: Brando Workshop. Some of Brando’s offerings are fairly reasonable, such as fans or small keyboard lights. Then there are […]
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