The CueTab case struck me as having what so many cases are missing - optional methods of holding your iPad. You have to watch the video for yourselves to see the versatility of this design. Needless to say - I want one. The handle is the clincher. Who doesn't want a handle on their iPad?! I do! And I like the idea of the handle being used to hang your iPad for easy viewing, or to prop up the case. It does seem pretty complete. Join me in backing this one! http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/202789185/cuetab-case-the-best-all-in-one-case-for-ipad


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Windows Phoneification will get you sooner or later, even if you never buy a Windows Phone at all. The first step was, obviously, the release of Windows Phone cellphones. But since Android and iPhone are much more popular it is rather unlikely you will have contact with them. However, many people have Xbox at home, many people use Windows-powered PCs at home and work, and now the look and feel of Windows Phone - tiles - is spreading like a disease. While it may be understandable why Apple is iOSinizing the Mac OS: the huge success of iPhone and iPad. It is strange why Microsoft is pushing the user...


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Which is the best social networking site? These days, it seems like everyone a member of at least one social networking site, if not more. Social media claims to have benefits for your social life, your education, your career - but which one should you be using? Here are just four which you might consider... First up, it's Facebook. What started out as a networking site for students at Harvard University has quickly become an international phenomenon, and one of the most popular platforms when it comes to social media. If you're keen to keep in contact with old college friends, travel buddies...


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Previously I have reviewed here on this very blog an important book about video gaming (crazy lady there postulates that soon people will be getting Nobel Prize for video games) and now I am reviewing the most important book for geeks ever: Steve Jobs autobiography by Walter Isaacson. Importance This is the only authorized autobiography of Steve Jobs where the author (Walter Isaacson) was able to get Steve Jobs' opinions on many topics. Since Steve Jobs has died there will be no other authorized biography about him. This book is unique. This book is not merely for people interested in Steve...


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3 years ago, in 2008, Apple started an app revolution (some say the 3rd computer revolution after the invention of the computer and the Internet) that has changed everything. Now we are reaching a phase in the app revolution where, metaphorically speaking, robots are making robots: apps can make apps inside of the mobile devices! Have you ever been commuting to work and thinking "if only I could spend this time interestingly?" or maybe you have been listening to a boring lecture of a professor and thought "I could play a game in my phone but it wouldn't be intellectually challenging enough..."?...


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We are now on the verge of the 3rd major phase of smartphone wars. Episode 3 if you like, or as I like to call it, Smartphone War 3. Let's take a short look back and let's predict what will be going on in smartphones in the next few years - after all how well one can predict is a primary measure of intelligence. Smartphone War 1 Before Smartphone War 1 started, Nokia-controlled Symbian (a mobile OS that originated from British EPOC mobile OS for PDAs) had the dominant market share. And as you can see from this graph, Microsoft's mobile operating system had a comfortable second or third...


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The bottom line is: both Windows Phone 7 pre-mango as well as Windows Phone 7.5 post-mango are junk, don't even consider buying them! (more...)


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"ROS (Robotic Operating Systems) Everywhere!" says Willow Garage's Steve Cousins by Frank Tobe, Owner/Publisher of The Robot Report   Willow Garage's ROS (Robotic Operating System) provides a collection of software libraries and tools to help software developers create robot applications. ROS provides device drivers, visualizers, message-passing, package management, and advanced libraries to help application engineers understand camera, video and 3D data.   ROS is open source and free to use, change and commercialize. The system is used by a growing number of popular personal...


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Is your Twitter timeline becoming bogged down with notices that the XYZ Daily is out? Do you get a notification that you were included in the ABC News every time you publish a blog post? (Helpful tip, if you visit paper.li, there's a link at the bottom or their home page where you can ask to be removed from mentions.) Paper.li is for people who are too lazy to blog, don't know about RSS readers, and basically don't understand that what they're doing is plaguerism. Pure and simple. If they want to link to my blog, I'd welcome the link, and the accompanying pingback. But that's not how they work....


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Yesterday, AT&T put to rest rumors about their policy on unlimited data capping, and announced that throttling was a very real possibility. For the top 5% of data users. To those of you who are outraged by this, I say "seriously? Maybe you need to get a life." While I very much agree that the data I buy from AT&T is mine, and I should be allowed to use it as I want (ie, why can't I tether my laptop if I've already bought the data), I am actually sickened by the people who feel that they can replace home internet with cellular data. It was never meant for that. Now maybe I don't understand,...


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