Thanks to a friend who works at Barnes & Noble I had some quality time with the new nook tablet the day before its launch.  With that quick time I learned a few things I’d like to share. The home screen seems to be a good hybrid between a desktop (lock apps) and a “coverflow” [...]

So you’re thinking of making the jump from a featurephone to a full fledged smartphone. Surely your biggest concern is not the phone… but the PLAN.  Not only are those “data plans” scary and confusing but they’re insanely expensive.  In short Sprint has the best value…. a truly unlimited… but let’s look at Verizon (who [...]

Today is the day.  November 15th.  The day the tech world changed… Just over a week from black Friday 2011… and Kindle Fire is hitting shelves (or in my case a UPS truck). How does the Amazon Kindle Fire stack up against the current reigning tablet champion, the Apple iPad 2? Sure there is a [...]

Mac OS X.  Perhaps the gold standard of Apple desktop operating systems since 2001 (didn’t want Steve Ballmer calling me out!)  has gone through many iterations over the last ten years. While many of you have recently made the upgrade from Snow Leopard to Lion I am here to tell you get your Mighty Mouse [...]

In one of my weekly circles a group of otherwise normal 20 and 30 year olds get together, have some beers and shoot the shit. The occupations range from contractor to attorney and everything in between.  The conversations range from real estate, cars, politics and the metric system. Last night, the topic was android.  At [...]