Friday, March 23, 2007 1:26 PM/EST
Tomorrow, March 24, is Shutdown Day. Just what is Shutdown Day? Well, to put it simply, Shutdown Day is an experiment to see how many people will agree to not use a computer for one whole day, and what, if any effects will be seen by this initiative. As of 1:30 EST on the 23rd, the counters on the Shutdown Day Web site show 54,483 people agreeing to shut down for the day and 8,684 saying no way. Now for me, the fact that Shutdown Day is happening on a Saturday means that there is a very good chance that I will actually be participating, but not because it's Shutdown Day. I'll be participating because on most Saturdays (and Sundays) I never turn on my computer. Between house and yard work, social events and just relaxing, I'm often too busy to use the computer on weekends and typically only do...
Thursday, March 15, 2007 3:06 PM/EST
A week ago I reviewed the new FlipStart micro-PC from the Paul Allen-backed FlipStart Labs. In that review, while I found the FlipStart to be cool, I was pretty down on it both for its high price (just about $2,000) and its size and clunkiness. But I have till the end of the month before I have to send it back so I wanted to see if additional use would warm me up to the FlipStart's charms. So in the last week the FlipStart has come with me on a visit to the MIT Energy Conference and taken a train ride with me from Boston to New York where I was presenting at the Ziff Davis Security Summit. Has my opinion changed? Well, I am getting much better at typing on the FlipStart, no longer accidentally hitting jog dials or the wrong keys. And the built-in EVDO connection was a...
Monday, March 12, 2007 4:56 PM/EST
With St. Patrick's day approaching, we'll all soon be seeing lots of green (green shirts, green decorations, green beer). But here at eWEEK, one area that we would like to see be a lot more green is our IT data center (in fact, stay tuned for more on that from us). At the recent MIT Energy Conference, I got to see some of both the latest shipping products designed to both lower power and gas consumption and to help run homes and businesses more efficiently. Along with the cool new hybrids, batteries, solar reflectors and renewable power sources, there was this cool project that creates hydrogen using algae. Click here to see the all of my pictures from the MIT Energy Conference....
Thursday, March 08, 2007 4:41 PM/EST
Over at eWEEK.com I've listed my choices for the top 30 Web technologies of all time. This list is based on my experiences here at eWEEK testing, evaluating and using these Web-based products and technologies since 1993.
But I know I'm not alone in my experiences in the Web. I'm sure there are those of you out there who disagree with my choices or who would have added a few different technologies or products to the list.
Wednesday, March 07, 2007 12:12 PM/EST
With the accelerated daylight-saving change approaching this week, many businesses and IT users probably feel pretty secure that they have done everything necessary to protect themselves from any problems that the daylight-saving change will cause. They've read articles like eWEEK Labs' advice on how to update enterprise applications and systems to be ready for the time change. So everything should be hunky dory, right? But what about all of the little things that you might be forgetting? For example, how about all of the smart phones and PDAs that your staff (and especially executives) are using? Modern phones basically have operating systems themselves and if phones aren't updated, those updates you made to your Exchange server still won't stop the boss from missing his key meetings. So make sure that you check and update all of your cell phones such as your Palm Treos, BlackBerrys and Windows Mobile devices. And...
Friday, February 16, 2007 3:15 PM/EST
Probably like a lot of people nowadays my digital camera has become more than just a tool for still photos. I've found that the quality of the video that my camera takes is actually now pretty good, certainly good enough for active videos from vacations, parties and other social events. But like a lot of digital cameras, the format that my camera saves its video files in is the Quicktime mov format. This would be fine if I just wanted to watch video on computer screens. But I want to put the video onto DVDs and share them with family and friends, who can take the DVDs and play them on their standard DVD players. Even better, I'd like to be able to convert these videos into a format so that they could be viewed on video iPods and other handheld video devices. But while mov is a nice video...
Tuesday, January 23, 2007 2:46 PM/EST
Most of these highly touted new technologies are basically just updated Web 2.0-ified versions of the collaboration features that Lotus has always offered.
Tuesday, January 16, 2007 5:19 PM/EST
DRM and its nasty cousins are all about one thing: controlling the ability of consumers like you to use content that you think you own in whatever fair use way that you might want to.
Wednesday, January 10, 2007 8:21 PM/EST
Sixteen years ago technology luminaries Mitch Kapor, John Gilmore and John Perry Barlow met on the Well and decided to form a new group dedicated to protecting technology freedoms against misguided federal laws and massive corporations determined to protect their aging business models against the incursions of progress.
The group that they founded was the Electronic Freedom Foundation and on January 11 that group will celebrate it's sixteenth birthday.
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