TechnoVisionary

Why Windows Phone 7 will be Good for Android

Yesterday, Microsoft launched their new mobile operating system, Windows Phone 7. As a former enterprise network administrator, and Windows Mobile user, I can tell you that Microsoft does have a place in the smartphone world. Redmond fell asleep at the wheel on their mobile development over the last 6-7 years and let RIM and Apple [...]

Android vs iPhone vs Windows Mobile

On a smaller scale, the relative beginnings of the smart phone(PDA) industry have gotten started similarly to the progression of the PC market. Two of the same major players are involved, taking familiar tacts, and there is a third open-source alternative headed up by a new major player that didn’t exist during the PC’s early [...]

One Week of Google Wave

I started using Google Wave on Friday of last week and I’ve got some perspective now on this interesting new service. I am of the opinion that in five years, we will hear everyday people saying “Hey, can you wave that to me?” or “Lets put some of these ideas down on a wave”. There [...]

Invite Only Rollouts – Why Google is Brilliant

You really have to hand it to Google and their brilliance in creating a buzz. Of course it takes a company of their stature to get people all worked up about not being allowed to try a new service. If I were to create a new app and require users to be invited, [...]

Google Voice – Fixing the Cellphone Voicemail Problem

So, I love Google Voice and have been using it for years, ever since it was Grand Central. Today, I finally figured out how to reign in the problem with voicemails showing up in either my cell phone voicemail or my Google Voice voicemail. It was starting to become unbearable to have to check both [...]

Vanish – A Self Destructing Public Encryption System

Vanish, announced by researchers at the University of Washington today, is a new concept for sending protected messages over the internet. It is not a shared key system, meaning that you dont have to exchange anything with someone beforehand in order to send them a protected message. The concept is that the message is encrypted [...]

Windows Mobile 6.5 No VoIP

I’ve been testing a Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM on my HTC Touch Pro for about 3 weeks now. So far, it seems much faster and considerably more stable. It could be that I’m using a stripped down ROM without the carrier bloatware, but my phone feels very responsive. Most applications that worked on Windows Mobile 6.1 [...]

Wolfram Alpha – A How-To Guide

Wolfram|Alpha, launched a little over a week ago, has gotten a huge amount of attention online and many people are saying that they don’t feel like they know how to utilize this new search engine’s full potential. Here are a few tips that could help you get what you are seeking out of the “computational [...]

Wolfram Alpha – A New Kind of Search Engine

There is another search engine, which is about to go live Today at 7pm CST, which is rumored to have advanced functionality beyond Google’s capabilities. Anyone remember Cuil? The useless search engine that had it’s five seconds of fame due to the claim that because they indexed more sites than Google, their search results would be more [...]

Twitter hides @replies

Twitter made a change to their system today, and I don’t think it is going to go over well within the Twittosphere. When someone you follow makes a reply to someone you dont follow, you will no longer see the post. Most people who have amassed large twitter networks have done so by [...]

End of Humanity – Kondo Bot Battles

Imagine these things, but 20 feet tall. Please don’t try to program them with intelligence…. :O

Kindle DX by Amazon

At $489, this is not the cheapest toy you are going to find on the technology market, but it may just be worth its hefty price tag. What is the one aspect of a mobile content “reader” you would always like more of? How about more screen real estate…? The new Kindle has a 9.7 [...]

Secure your Gmail with Military-grade PGP Encryption

Update 6-9-2010 : FireGPG removed Gmail integration in the latest update. I think Google released an update to Gmail that introduced a bug into FireGPG that could not be fixed. This tutorial still applies, but you have to use the FireGPG text viewer to decrypt or encrypt your emails. Too bad, as [...]

WinDirStat – Free tool to analyze disk usage

This is not a new tool, but worth reminding people about. WinDirStat provides you with a visual analysis of your hard drive usage and indicates the largest files by displaying them as larger boxes. You can hover over the boxes and it will tell you where to find the file. I use this tool whenever [...]

Windows 7 on Cinco De Mayo

This wasn’t an official announcement, but there was some wording on the Microsoft Partner Program site that read: “Partners: If you have a subscription to MSDN or TechNet, you can download Windows 7 RC now,” ……..”Otherwise, you can download Windows 7 RC starting May 5, 2009.” The download section for that site did not list Windows 7 [...]