Posts filed under Devices

07.20.2008

Calculating Geekaliciousness

I had trouble coming up with an answer because I usually pull up the calculator on my computer… who uses a real calculator these days for small calculations?

…My friend had turned on the TV in the classroom one day with his introducing the potential for mischief and confusing and startling the high school teacher.

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01.04.2008

Why I Prefer Crack Over Apples

I was trying to decide on a new smartphone, especially since the phone I thought I saved was on its last legs. I spent a lot of time researching smartphones and ended up with the top two contenders – BlackBerry vs. iPhone. In the end, I decided on the BlackBerry and have been happy with [...]

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12.03.2007

The Internet Abroad

I’m currently in Hong Kong staying with my cousin. When she visited the United States earlier this year, she mentioned that although she had broadband in her flat in Hong Kong, she hadn’t set up wireless yet. So one of the things I did in the first 24 hours of arriving in Hong Kong was [...]

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11.13.2007

Work-Life Balance with Roomba

At the Grace Hopper Conference I attended last month, I went to the “Entrepreneurship: The Fundamentals (and Fun) of Idea Generation” breakout session with Denise Brosseau, President & Co-Founder, Invent Your Future Enterprises, a long-time business coach and serial entrepreneur. We went through a few of her exercises aimed to get us thinking about “mov[ing] [...]

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09.07.2007

It’s about time, DirecTiVo

I have a TiVo. Actually, it’s not a real TiVo, but a TiVo-enhanced DirecTV receiver. I just tell everyone I have a TiVo because it’s just easier that way. It has the TiVo interface (and sounds), but the difference is that I don’t get all of the features of a real TiVo like the Home [...]

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