bells and whistles

Thanksgiving is just around the corner, and as surely as day follows night, Black Friday is now almost upon us. Black Friday is by far the best time to purchase gifts for Christmas or components for your new computer — but the fact is, it’s very easy to be suckered into buying stuff you don’t really need.

The price sticker on that pool table-sized plasma TV tells you that you’re saving $500 — woohoo!

— but you’re still spending a thousand bucks.

Google and Samsung launched the latest Android OS Ice Cream Sandwich and the Galaxy Nexus smartphone Wednesday morning in Hong Kong.

It's the apps

Whenever disruptive innovation comes along, the first (and totally understandable reaction) is to take what was there before, and shove it into the new things.

It's why automobiles were originally "horseless carriages." It's why when TV came along, the early shows were really just radio programs that you could see.

After much ado, RIM has officially announced the BlackBerry Bold 9780 – a refresh on the Bold 9700, including an upgraded camera, more memory, and all of the bells and whistles that come with OS 6.

On PHPBuilder.com today Jason Gilmore has an introductory tutorial to using the popular vim editor for your PHP development with more that just the basic features.

I’ve had landline phone service all my life.  I’ve had cell phones for a long time, and Vonage for about 6 years.

 Even with Vonage and cell pones, I’d never brought myself to get rid of the landline.  Rationalizing it was not too hard – we occasionally get power outages as well as internet outages, so having a stable line would be at least moderately useful for these minor occasions.

 However, the monthly bill got landline service seemed to go up continually each month, regardless of how little we used it each month.