Archive for August, 2009

When is "Good Enough" actually good enough?

For as much as we all love to go out and buy the biggest and the best, or stand in line for hours waiting to get our hands on the next big thing, sometimes getting just what we need is actually the best possible option.  But when is it OK to settle for just enough rather than overspending for that...
August 26th, 2009 | How To..., Online Shopping | Read More

Weekend Recap: August 24th 2009

Here’s whats going on since the weekend, just a few things: Microsoft annouced that the Xbox 360 has a 54.2% failure rate. Yikes! [engadget] Snow Leopard is Shipping on the 28th, but its not 64-bit compatible [gizmodo] Intel buys RapidMind [pc world] PCI Express 3.0 release delayed until 2011...
August 24th, 2009 | Apple, Cell Phones, Online Shopping, Rumors, Weekend Recap | Read More

Xpal XP8000 Portable Battery Review [Video]

Hit the bump for the full review as well as pictures: dtsv.dtse_post_2137_permalink = 'http://kurteng.com/2009/08/xpal-xp8000-portable-battery-review-video/'; dtsv.dtse_post_2137_title = 'Xpal XP8000 Portable Battery Review [Video]';
August 18th, 2009 | Cell Phones, Digital Cameras, Online Shopping, Videos | Read More

Weekend Recap: August 17th 2009

Here are some of the tech news from the weekend. Western Digital’s new TV media player (WD TV-2). Its way better then their first version. [engadget] Take a look at the MacBook Micro! [engadget] Nissan’s “The Leaf”, to be able to get 367mpg! Wow, that’s impressive. [engadget] IBM’s...
August 17th, 2009 | Apple, Online Shopping, Rumors, TV, The Internet, Weekend Recap | Read More

Alex Tanchoco: Experiences with Elgg

Liveblog in progress: Lions Club:  improves collaboration within district to enhance sense of community with document sharing, calendars for events, photos, blogs and to collaborate Green Elgg:  $0 for everything… open source community, learning curve with an active community and support, free...
August 15th, 2009 | Live Blog, Social Media | Read More

Building FuseFly – Brett Profitt

Home schooled based community “social network connecting homeschoolers around the world that provides a secure environment for teens with areas for both sutdents and parents” Each student account is created and must be tied to a guardian/parent account.  “Walled garden” approach...
August 15th, 2009 | Live Blog, Social Media | Read More

Elgg: History about and the future

Started in 2004 as open source and Elgg v0.1 was released March 2005 (alpha?) After hitting conference circuit (Oct 2005) people reacted:  “Blogging will never be mainstream” and “This is a fad and you are just jumping on the bandwagon”… maybe it was too early? Facebook...
August 15th, 2009 | Live Blog, Social Media | Read More

Elgg Camp: Introduction

A FREE open-source social platform Ning:  In debt to the mob but at least they are making payments… Facebook:  Yes, give your personal information to the mob in which they have yet to make payments… Drupal:  nothing really bad about Drupal, you can create a social network but you need...
August 15th, 2009 | Live Blog, Social Media | Read More

Apple Rumors Everywhere!

First, the iPod Touch.  Mine broke… well it isn’t 100% as my Touch only outputs mono sound to headphones instead of stereo.  So I brought it in to the Apple Store since it was less than a year old… and I was told I’d get a new one… only that there aren’t any in...
August 13th, 2009 | Apple, Rumors | Read More
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