The Setup Last year, there was a lot of what-if talks about bringing together interested parties to compete against the might of Apple’s [AAPL] iPhone product. There were a lot of nay-sayers and people who were pooh-poohing the notion that, given Apple’s head-start, there would be no way for anybody to catch up. Last November, [...]
September 2008
After a fairly long delay, the first major publicly available implementation of Google’s [GOOG] Android SDK on a phone (the GPhone format) is finally unveiled as T-Mobile’s [DT] G1, also known as the HTC Dream. In addition to the G1 itself, there’s also the Android Market, a software depot very similar to Apple’s [AAPL] App [...]
For a short period, we’ll be having a moratorium on the unregistered portion of the Javamancy comment system. That means that, if you are one of the people who unfortunately are not already registered on Javamancy for comments, posting, forum access, online gaming, polls, contest winning, etc., you will not be able to submit comments [...]
As you know, I’ve been tracking and collecting the iTunes freebies that are offered periodically at Starbucks [SBUX] outlets. For those of you just joining us here and are unfamiliar with this topic, you can “catch up” quickly with these (which are presented in reverse chronological order, to further shake you up): Mr. Heringer, I [...]
A Little Bit: The iFixit site has a photo walkthrough disassembly of the second generation iPod touch that was launched 9/9/2008 after Apple’s [AAPL] iPod announcements.
Yesterday, I’d reported that Felicia Day was going to be on an episode of House M.D. Unfortunately, I’d gotten the title of the blog post wrong, and the text of the post was quite ambiguous. The episode is supposed to be “Not Cancer”, due to air on September 23, 2008.
Remember when I mentioned the release of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed today? Well, as an additional treat, it is also available on the iPhone and iPod touch platforms today as well! This is courtesy of the folks at THQ Wireless [THQI]. Of course, the App Store prices for a lot of things, including this [...]
As many of you know, I’ve had an Xbox 360 for almost a year now, and it’s been quite a diverting bit of hardware. Well, the games are The Thing, so it makes sense that excellent game titles are the way to keep gamers focused on a given platform (and even multi-platform games tend to [...]
Coming soon on September 16th…? : Felicia Day, the Cheetos Girl, has been steadily building up her resume with more TV sightings. This time, she joins the ranks of Gregory House’s patient population on House M.D., which broadcasts on the Fox TV Network in the U.S. And yes, we’re talking about the same Felicia Day [...]
Javamancy has completed the upgrade to WordPress 2.6.2. Thanks for being patient with us. A lot of you fellow bloggers have been upgrading your WordPress blogs as well, so hopefully it’s been relatively uneventful for you as well. Given the security bug fixes introduced in the 2.6.2 version, this was an important upgrade. We’ll be [...]
