I'm an IT Professional, geek and technology 'edge case'. I enjoy keeping up with the latest devices, technologies and news in the IT world. On this site I post some of those things I find most interesting. I hope you find them interesting as well.
So, I’m browsing around Dell.com yesterday and I happen to see this little projector. The specs on this thing are crazy. It fits in the palm of your hand and weighs in at less than a pound!
Other than size, the things of note I see here are the fact that it uses the same power adapter as the new Dell Latitude E series notebooks and it uses LED instead of a bulb. Check out Dell’s intro video below.
TiVo, Domino’s team up to make us all fat Here's the deal: when a Domino's ad or product placement shows up, TiVo users can click through with their remote controls to order pizza, or can access an on-demand ordering screen through a TiVo menu. It's similar in theory to the deals that TiVo has with Fandango for movie ticket ordering or with Amazon.com for ordering products related to TV shows, except that you get a pizza.
Slydial Makes It Even Easier To Avoid Awkward Human Interaction a free service that lets you dial any mobile phone number and get directed straight to voicemail. It may sound counterintuitive, but it can be a godsend for avoiding awkward phone conversations - I’ve had it saved in my phone’s ‘Favorites’ menu since the service launched (though I’ve never used it, honest).
Firefox 3.1 gets tab tearing The latest Firefox 3.1 development release features the announced option for tab tearing: drag a tab out of its current window, and it is removed and opened on a new one, providing a more intuitive way to organize your web browsing.
Military launches video-sharing site for troops
After banning YouTube and other social Web sites on all overseas computers in May, citing bandwidth and security issues, the U.S. military on Tuesday launched an alternative video-sharing Web site for troops, their families, and supporters.The new site is called TroopTube and has a look and function very much like YouTube, with one major difference: a Pentagon employee screens each video upload for taste, copyright violations and national security issues.
Next version of Office heads to the browser
Microsoft will offer browser-based Word, Excel, and PowerPoint in two ways. For consumers, they will be offered via Microsoft’s Office Live Web site, while businesses will be able to offer browser-based Office capabilities through Microsoft’s SharePoint Server product.The company has been pushed into this arena by Google, which has been offering its free Google Apps programs for some time. In competing with Google, Microsoft is touting the ability to use Microsoft’s familiar user interface, as well as the fact that all of the document’s characteristics are preserved.
10 Best Tips for WordPress Optimization
This WordPress optimization guide is a collection of useful tips and tutorials on how to speed up your WordPress site.
In case you haven’t seen one of the 50 different DTV commercials that are on every other hour or you need more information on how it’s going to work… check out this video.
My initial reaction when I saw the new Windows 7 taskbar was “Ugh!” The redesign looks pretty different using those huge icons. I’m starting to at least see the reason for the larger icons and I have to admit this video shows some cool new features that the Win7 taskbar will bring to the table.
