As memory gets cheaper people will start to record everything they experience. I predict audio in about 5 years and video in 10. Audio recording already exists with personal notetakers where you push a button and speak into the microphone of a tiny, handheld device. Just add memory to that and keep the recording going [...]
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I’ve had an iMac for a almost 3 months now and I’m really pleased with it. I’ve gone totally non-Microsoft so am using Open Office instead of MS Office and have no problems dealing with the rest of the world that uses Microsoft products. I think the most impressive thing with the iMac happened yesterday. [...]
After suffering through the Explorer 8000 rented through two different cable providers it is a great relief to be using a Tivo again. When I last used a Tivo (series 1) my biggest complaints were the single tuner and the difficulties changing channels with an IR blaster. Both of those issues are now gone with [...]
I predict that the iphone will do very well initially with early adopters and Apple fan-boys (and girls). After initial demand has been met (6-12 months) there will be down swing as people realize that the competition offerings are pretty comparable. Initial limitations of the iphone primarily limited battery life and the lack of a [...]
Stick it to the man… Frankly, I don’t have an HD player and don’t plan to buy one (until I can get a combined HD/Blue Ray player for under $200; oh, yeah, and an HD TV). But I do like free speech and the idea that this number by itself (i.e. without a program to [...]
Battery technology has not kept up wit our power-hungry electronic devices. Laptops barely get a few hours of life with current technology. I predict two technologies will help get us to the point where we can go at least a day (the practical minimum) between charges: 1) flash drives – as capacity goes up they [...]
The Apple iPhone looks very impressive with its user interface gestures right out of Minority Report. The form factor and functionality appear to be first rate. However, I’m not interested in a 2 year commitment to Cingular. Please, Apple, release this product as a video iPod with its wifi and bluetooth allowing it to be [...]
I have not used Microsoft’s Zune but based on its features I can say that I never would buy or recommend one. One of the worst things I have ever heard: if you create your own music (for which you obviously own the copyright) and then share it using the Zune’s wifi, the Zune will [...]
Number of years from now: 5 Cameras are common accessories for mobile (cell) phones and Bluetooth wireless connections are also seen more and more. In the future, the camera lens will be mounted on the wireless headphone and both still pictures and video will be taken from the user’s point of view. The screen on [...]
With Boot Camp from Apple you can load Windows XP on an Intel-based Mac and create a dual boot system. That is you can boot to MacOS or WindowsXP. That’s nice but what I would really like is the ability to natively run WindowsXP applications from within MacOS. Then you could run the few windows [...]
