Take a stroll through any large city and you’ll see houses butting right up against each other, and roof tops chock full of antennas and satellite dishes. We are an entertainment driven society after all. So why not take a chance to stand out from the crowd? Why not slap a Mickey Mouse face on your satellite dish? Actually, I can think of plenty of reasons why not to. Reason #1: It looks stupid. But to each their own. If a themed dish is what you seek, brush up...
While I do find myself inside, sitting in front of a computer for many hours of the day, I’m also an avid nature freak. I love the great outdoors — and I mean the way out there, never going to get a signal for your life outdoors. In Japan, they is some very unique areas of urban environment that are also very close to those outdoors that I love oh so dearly. But what’s different from the wilderness here in the states and that of wilderness in Japan all...
Hulu is currently on a war path of sorts, with it’s content owners closing up holes, cramming in advertisements and effectively killing all the reasons consumers loved the service in the first place. Even worse is the fact that those same content owners (motivated by greed of course) are butchering Hulu’s transgression to mobiles. Bad for them, good for us. Where Hulu is letting us mobile users down, Fox’s new “Bitbop” will pick up the...
What’s that sound? Oh, just the sweet sweet music of HTML 5 claiming another victory over Flash of course. Soon you, I, and any other human on planet earth who feels compelled to visit Virgin America’s website will be able to do so without pegging a core or four on our processor by simply navigating the website. For mobile users, this means the simple task of even navigating Virgin America’s website will soon be possible. According to Virgin America...
You may recall Steve Job’s now infamous quote many days back stating that if Adobe Flash were supported on the iPad, the battery life would fall from 10hrs. to 1.5hrs. A bold claim to make and one that I can neither confirm or deny being that I don’t actually have an iPad to play with. Even still, such a drop in battery life doesn’t seem very plausible. Flash on mobile devices has been known to kill batteries rather quickly, but that quickly? Flash...
