sduford on Sep 05 2008 | Filed under: Building in Panama, Miscellaneous, Software
We visited our construction site last Saturday and construction is going well although things have slowed down due to heavy afternoon rains and our builder has concentrated mostly on the swimming pool. He tells us he intends to deliver the guest house by the end of this month. I think he might miss by a [...]
sduford on Sep 07 2007 | Filed under: Mobile Devices, Technology
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Just 10 weeks ago, otherwise sane individuals were camping overnight in long lines for the privilege of paying $599 for a mobile phone. These people were fully aware that most wireless companies will give you a basic phone for free, but the object of their ardor was anything but basic. It was a lifestyle choice. [...]
sduford on Aug 31 2007 | Filed under: Computers, Technology
Every once in a while it looks like Moore’s Law is about to hit a brick wall, and every time, new advances come along to keep it alive and well. IBM just announced two great research breakthroughs that promise to increase both data storage density and transistor density by orders of magnitude!
This means that you [...]
sduford on Aug 06 2007 | Filed under: Hardware, Mobile Devices, Technology
Here’s an article on a very interesting wireless technology. The company behind this product is called Meraki and their goal is to bring the Internet to the next billion people, mostly in disadvantaged areas where they currently have no access. This kind of technology offers hope for free wireless access almost anywhere in the world [...]
sduford on Mar 27 2007 | Filed under: Computers, Science, Technology
I’m sure many of you have heard of and even participated in the SETI@Home project. This project was all the rage in the 1990’s and it enabled the SETI program to solve its computational capacity problem; SETI was accumulating more radio data then it had the capacity to process, and it was looking at the [...]
sduford on Mar 18 2007 | Filed under: Mobile Devices, Technology, Travel
While in Redmond last week I was given the chance to go to the Microsoft Employee Store and I bought a copy of Microsoft Streets & Trips 2007 which came with a miniature GPS Receiver. The whole package cost me $85 and the main reason I bought it was that I was intrigued by the [...]
sduford on Mar 15 2007 | Filed under: Miscellaneous, Software
I spent most of the week at the MVP Global Summit in Redmond, where 1700 of my fellow geeks from all over the world met with Microsoft’s product teams to discuss upcoming technologies.
The keynote by Bill Gates was rather underwhelming. Gates used to make some pretty passionate speeches about new technology, but this time he [...]
sduford on Feb 26 2007 | Filed under: Blogging, Software
I just discovered that Word 2007 has support for posting directly to several types of blogs including my favourite: WordPress. So I now can leverage all of Word’s editing power and benefit from the spelling and grammar checker.
I am writing this in Word, and then all I have to do is hit “Publish”. Very cool.
sduford on Feb 06 2007 | Filed under: Computers, Miscellaneous
Here’s a new and frankly more realistic take on those otherwise wonderful Mac ads.
http://www.internet-nexus.com/2007/01/im-mac-im-pc.htm
Very funny!
sduford on Feb 02 2007 | Filed under: Photography, Software
Nikon has released a codec (coder/decoder), enabling the new Vista Operating System to read Nikon RAW/NEF files natively. All Nikon DSLRs from the original D1 onwards are supported, as are all Coolpix cameras capable of writing RAW file output; namely the 5000, 5400, 5700, 8400, 8700 and 8800 models.
This basically extends the Vista file system so [...]
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