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I'm Michael Koby, and I love technology. I'm also a programmer, currently doing Ruby on Rails development for a small Houston startup. Here I talk about technology, programming, politics, movies, music, and anything else I feel I need to talk about. If you would like to know more, you can check out the About page.Popular Series
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Monthly Archives: June 2009
Physical Media is Dead (Again)
And while this is most definitely the case, that geeks are streaming/downloading movies more than buying them, the rest of the non-geek population is not. We as geeks live in our own little world and regularly forget that the rest of the world doesn’t think like us. They also do not (for the most part) act like us either. Continue reading
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Trying to Use FriendFeed More
And that’s where FriendFeed’s shining gem lies. As people get on the service and begin marking “Like” on different articles and share various findings from the web you can find a lot of interesting articles on a lot of topics. Everything from information on the latest Iran election riots to iPhone news. Continue reading
It’s the Apps Store(s), Stupid
Over the past few weeks I have had the pleasure of playing with various smart phones. I own an iPhone myself, my wife owns a BlackBerry Pearl 8110 (GPS version), and her cousin owns a Google G1 (Android device). As I mess around with the various devices and tried their application stores, I realized something. That something was this: The application stores are the real stars of the show. Continue reading
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It's the Apps Store(s), Stupid
Over the past few weeks I have had the pleasure of playing with various smart phones. I own an iPhone myself, my wife owns a BlackBerry Pearl 8110 (GPS version), and her cousin owns a Google G1 (Android device). As I mess around with the various devices and tried their application stores, I realized something. That something was this: The application stores are the real stars of the show. Continue reading
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iPhones, News, & USA Today
So, it looks like that USA Today is having second thoughts on making their iPhone app free. Read the article here The article even mentions that USA Today might go to charging for the app along with a digital subscription … Continue reading
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Why I Uninstalled TweetDeck From My iPhone
Last night after trying to use it for an entire day, I uninstalled TweetDeck from my iPhone. The app, in case you haven’t used it yet, is gorgeous. It is incredibly simple to use while retaining much of the power that can be found in the desktop version of TweetDeck, most specifically tabs. But it had it’s share of problems. Continue reading →