As a lead in to the new STAR TREK film, there is a ‘prequel’ story by JJ Abrams, Roberto Orci & Alex Kurtzman (the director and writers of the film) that is available in traditional form and as an iPhone app. Star Trek: Countdown (click on graphic or links to launch iTunes). The iVerse ‘comic [...]

So far, what have learned from the Microsoft ads so far? If you want a 17″ screen and have less than $700 to spend, you want an HP … and when you are “picky,” you wind up with a 17″ HP as your “picky-person’s” choice. Both are “the truth,” … Other Microsoft – technically true [...]

Of course, when people think of presentations, they think of PowerPoint but honestly, it’s time to stop … It’s time to step up to KEYNOTE … Here are just some of the theme designs available to choose from … Now look at the themes in PowerPoint …Night and 75 Days later … But I think [...]

The Palm Pre is getting a lot of buzz with technocrats and techno-nerds and I count myself as one but in the world of people who ask questions when buying a computer such as “Does this get the internets?” Palm means tree or the part of your hand you slap for a high five. 10) [...]

“Dr Kristen Navara, of the University of Georgia, in the U.S., looked at birth statistics from 202 countries between 1997 and 2006. She looked at the ratio of baby boys to baby girls in relation to its capital’s latitude, its average temperature and its variation in day lengths. In tropical countries, 48.9 per cent of [...]

At first I thought it was THE ONION pulling my leg – I thought haha, got me again … But nope, it’s real. So basically they are willing to spend $20 million on a new name campaign, changing corporate signs, getting new urls and junking a million business cards but they’re not willing to spend [...]

It took a while but Warner Bros. FINALLY realized – hey, there might not be 2 million fans of ABE LINCOLN IN ILLINOIS but if a couple thousand want a copy, they’ll pay upfront for it, press one DVD and print some artwork on it – $19.95 – more than they normally make at wholesale [...]

As eBay is discovering through rapidly dropping sales – we pretty much loathe eBay. The current feeling of the general public towards eBay is the result of extraordinary arrogant customer relations since about 2000. Note that I did not use the word ‘service,’ and this should be a warning to all companies who go that [...]

As general interest magazine sales are dropping (mags like Florida Ferret Monthly are doing fine publishers are trying to figure out to customize the mags (or newspapers) the way we surf the net … here’s the latest try from Time, Inc … Surf over to http://www.timeinc.com/mine – fill out a short questionnaire and pick 5 [...]

As if the Palm Pre had any shot of making a difference, Palm is done. Sure, the Palm Pre looks like a nice phone and sure there are some nice features but just like many Mp3 makers way back in 2001 – some with nice features but none with THE IPOD. And none are the [...]