It has been a long time since I picked up my first PDA. Slightly less time has expired since I transitioned from PDAs to smartphones as my primary PIM platforms. Now it is the fall of 2010 and I have made another ponderous shift, into the realm of tablet… more »

I am currently running a series in the like vein on every laptop that I have ever owned. The installments of that series are pretty much at random, and these will be the same. The hardest part of these Memory Lane episodes is not in trying to remember th… more »

Much ado is made about the numerous apps available on Apple's App Store. Some 25000 and increasing last time I looked (which was admittedly some time ago). I am a Windows Mobile user and also own a Palm Pre. But I spent my time with an iPhone. Some 18 -… more »

MaximumPC - From the World of Something Useful: I typically never use anything other than 3dMark to benchmark my PC's and their graphics cards. I guess I have never really even asked the question, "Is this all that there is? Is there nothing more?" Maxim… more »

Convergence. I have only succumbed to this global trend on an occasions or two. I finally capitulated to not carrying both a phone and a PDA, and just went with a smartphone(s). But in general, I prefer a dedicated device that does its specific function… more »

Last night I posted a link to a PC Magazine article by Lance Ulanoff which I suggested I did not agree with, but thought was good food for thought. And then I read the article a second time and picked apart some more granular details. And I was wrong. Th… more »

It is all over the blogosphere and the web in general. Smartphone sales are increasing. That must mean everyone wants one. I am not so sure that is the case because I am not so sure that you can count all of the sales of the iPhone and Palm Pre. If I had… more »

I have heard of these families that have made a Three Bears type of investment in iPods. Papa bear has an iPod Touch. Mama Bear has a Nano. The littlest bear has a shuffle. As a techno geek who currently dwells alone, I guess I have formed my own family… more »

Note: all iPhone references in this post and any others concerning cell phones are and were based on my experiences with the 1st generation iPhone, not the iPhone 3G or 3GS. In a much shorter set of prose, having given a long thought trail on my e… more »

Today I will wrap up my thoughts after my first two months with the Palm Pre. It is certainly a neat little phone. There are some things that it does better than other phones I have owned, and some things it does worse. Let's get started with the wrap-up… more »