A personal website (blog) by Khürt Williams, with inchoate ramblings on Apple technology, photography, and geekery.
Recently Google announced that it would no longer support Microsoft’s ActiveSync for syncing Google services — Gmail, Calendar, and Contacts — with new mobile devices. Current users would not be affected but newer user would not have the option. This will have an impact on iPhone and iPad users who are used ActiveSync services for…
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The Internet is a shrine to all the brilliance and ridiculousness that is the homo sapien. It potentially the most religious invention we have concocted to date.
Lytro's revolutionary new camera reinvents the point-and-shoot camera, allowing you to focus or refocus your photographs after you take them.
Walt Mossberg found it easy to use. I’ve been testing the Lytro and found it does just what it says. I was able to take rapid-fire shots that looked good on my computer, and that could be focused and refocused, uploaded to the Internet and shared. I consider it a revolution in consumer photography, with…
Continue ReadingModern technologies allow us to shop in real time, often worldwide, for the lowest prices, highest quality, and best returns. Through the Internet and advanced software we can now get relevant information instantaneously, compare deals, and move our money at the speed of electronic impulses. We can buy goods over the Internet that are delivered…
Continue ReadingFor many geeks, the Internet is our first weapon of choice. We can use it to rally our troops and direct them to the proper targets. But the Internet isn’t an edged weapon, even though many might argue otherwise. Nope… for me, Internet fights are all about snowballs. This is one doozy of a snowball…
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