Archive for the ‘Tech’ Category

VMWare Fusion Beta 2 0

VMWare Fusion is an application for the Mac that lets you run Windows as a virtual machine. No need to reboot into Windows to play games, you can just startup Fusion and run any Windows app right from your comfy Mac OS desktop. They’ve launched a new public beta (version 2), which you can download [...]

I’m a-Twitter! 1

I’ve hopped on yet another Web 2.0 bandwagon by joining Twitter. My username’s mindbat (of course). Join up, and let’s Follow each other about all day (it’s not as creepy as it sounds, I promise).

Scary Reading: Adobe’s AIR EULA 2

I was all set to install an application built using Adobe’s AIR platform when I took a minute to actually read the End-User License Agreement. What I read made me cancel the install, rather than agree to the EULA. What was so bad? Well, for a development platform that’s supposed to let users run web [...]

Nokia N810: First Impressions 1

This is what my Palm TX should have been. Granted, the Palm was a good organizer and datebook. But in the 21st Century, who cares about an electronic datebook that can’t load Facebook or YouTube properly? I don’t need a calendar application, I need to be able to get to my Google Calendar. I do [...]

Shiny! 2

I’m writing this on my brand-new Nokia N810 Internet Tablet! It’s got trainable handwriting recognition, a fully-featured web browser, and Linux under the hood. Goodbye, Palm. Hello, Open Source!