Googerola, HP goes IBM, Steve Jobs Retires

The tech industry has been taken by storm not once, not twice, but three times in the last 10 days. I am going to start with the most recent news of Steve Jobs stepping down as CEO of Apple. The news broke about two hours ago, only a matter of weeks before the iPhone 4s/iPhone … Read more

Google Adds Plus to its arsenal & name

I have been busy over the last couple months and not able to blog a lot so this review of Google+ is about 5-6 weeks overdue. Googles long, rumored social product was finally announced in late July. The long rumored product was said to have been named Google Me, then later rumors had it named … Read more

College Students & the iPad or Any Tablet

iPhoneAlley had an article on Friday discussing the top ten reasons NOT to give a college bound student an iPad. Here is my take on each of the reasons they give: The ten reasons include: 1. It’s Expensive Compared to some other tablets out there the iPad is actually relatively cheap. 2. It’s Not the … Read more

College students and their tablet computer

iPhoneAlley had an article on Friday discussing the top ten reasons NOT to give a college bound student an iPad. Here is my take on each of the reasons they give: The ten reasons include: 1. It’s Expensive Compared to some other tablets out there the iPad is actually relatively cheap. 2. It’s Not the … Read more

Lions Are Roaring Into a Cloudy Future

I am excited for OSX Lion. I like that it is being sold through the Mac App Store because that will make updating my Macbook Air very easy. Like the next-gen Microsoft OS, Windows 8, OSX Lion is taking design cues from the mobile world. So exit the mouse and enter the magic trackpad. In … Read more

Blockbuster is not dead, while Borders is

With the growing popularity of e-book readers and tablet computers such as the Kindle and iPad these days it should have come as no surprise to me that my local borders store is going to be closing at some point in the coming months. That said, when I noticed the signs a couple weeks back … Read more

Amazon releases Cloud Drive and Cloud Player

Amazon may have beat Google to the punch on releasing a cloud storage service, but they did not necessarily beat Apple to the punch. Nope. Apple has had cloud storage service for a few years now. That service is called MobileMe. The only thing they beat Apple to offering is a FREE cloud storage service. … Read more

More on iPad 2

Not because people don’t want it… but because they can not afford it. The more time that passes the more I am believing that Apple has intensions to release a third generation iPad this year, in time for the holidays. Apple’s mistake that will cannibalize the iPad 2 was, not ignoring (confirming by not confirming) … Read more

Product Comparisons

Carbonite vs. Dropbox I was a Carbonite user for about a year from 2008-2009. Right around that time, another DropBox was released. What I like about DropBox in comparison to Carbonite is that you get 2GB of free storage and can attached one account to as many decices as you want. If you want more … Read more

Amazon, Google, Facebook, and more Apple

I have been talking about Apple a lot lately. I am going to start this post out with a few things not relating to Apple and then close it out with a few more Apple tidbits I have found since the release of the MacBook Pros on Thursday. Amazon Prime Customers to get free streaming … Read more