Buy toys now, but keep procrastinating on the electronics
According to The Consumerist, if you’re shopping for Christmas (or Hanukah or Kwanzaa or any other giving occasion) gifts right now, this is a good time to buy toys but not necessarily electronics. The...
View ArticleLinus Torvalds is right about “reasonable resolution”
Linus Torvalds is sick of the gimmicks, and he’s really sick of laptops sporting cheap 720p displays. He wants high-resolution (2560×1600, or even 2048×1536) displays to become standard. Having seen an...
View ArticleI’m not sure if this really big tablet is a really big idea
I like the idea of a really big tablet, but I think Viewsonic and I have different ideas of “really big.” This week Viewsonic announced a 24-inch Android 4.1 tablet. Here’s the problem with that. A...
View ArticleHow to calculate what a screen’s specs don’t tell you
If you want to quickly and easily calculate the pixels per inch of a display, here’s a useful tool: http://members.ping.de/~sven/dpi.html While this tool calculates the pixels per inch for you, it also...
View ArticleGoogle’s plan for fiber seems to be working
I saw this on Slashdot today: In Lawrence, Kan., about 40 miles west of Kansas City, Kan., a local ISP is building an affordable fiber network. Pricing is a little higher than Google, at $70/month for...
View ArticleDecrease your Roku resolution to save bandwidth
From time to time when I’m watching baseball on my Roku, I’ll get a lot of buffering and, in extreme cases, a message stating that I may have insufficient bandwidth. If you have the same problem, the...
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