Category Archives: technology
A New HDTV
Time for another installment of my HDTV saga. At the start of 2008 I cancelled my cable TV subscription and purchased a Tivo DVR so that I could watch and record over-the-air HDTV broadcasts on my 2003 30” CRT HDTV. … Continue reading
iPad Keyboard Tricks and Tips
Episode 3 of the TWiT network’s iPad Today podcast included some handy Tricks and Tips, prompting me to search out some more. Here are my favorites: Swipe up on the comma/explanation mark key on the virtual keyboard to insert an … Continue reading
One Set-Top Box to Rule Them All
Having fulfilled most of my hopes for couch surfing via tablet with their iPad, it was too much to hope that Apple would also solve the set-top box problem. This week they announced their latest take on the Apple TV, … Continue reading
My Favorite iPad Apps
By request, here is a linked list of my favorite iPad apps.
How Star Trek artists imagined the iPad… 23 years ago
There are a lot of similarities between Apple’s iPad and the mobile computing devices—known as PADDs—used in the Star Trek universe. Ars Technica spoke to designers Michael Okuda, Denise Okuda, and Doug Drexler to find out the thinking and inspiration … Continue reading
Meador Manor 