I’m sure I’m not the only one who has found that logging onto the computer has become quite mundane and boring. Yes, I like Windows 7, and Snow Leopard isn’t looking too bad either, but its kind of frustrating because we haven’t had any major revolutionary ideas in the past three OS updates for both [...]
- Author: Orrett Morgan
- Published: Jul 3rd, 2009
- Comments: 8
Why Blackberry and Windows Mobile isn’t going anywhere
iPhone sells 1,000,000 devices in its opening weekend, Palm sells 300,000 Pre’s in 3 weeks, T-Mobile has 1,000,000 G1’s in circulation. You’d think with these numbers Microsoft and RIM would be pacing their respective offices. But instead both companies are business as usual. I’m almost sure that if you take a visit to Redmond or [...]
- Author: Orrett Morgan
- Published: Jul 1st, 2009
- Comments: 9
5 Things we’re still missing from our Smartphones
With the iPhone, Pre, and a whole host of Android devices out the door, the race for the control of the cell phone market is heating up. As things usually go in the cell phone world, there are more battles of who had what first then who actually made it work right. That said, I [...]
iPhones: they aren’t as bad as you think
A couple of months ago, I did something I thought I never would do: I bought an iPhone. Technology enthusiasts generally seem pretty torn about these devices: some see them as fantastic whilst others see them as an expensive device which isn’t very functional.
I, too, was torn. I vowed never to buy an iPhone, on [...]
OCR Document Scanning With Smartphones
The common way to scan documents is to use a hardware scanner to do so and a text recognition software afterwards using optical character recognition (ocr). The advent of digital cameras and smartphones created alternative means for OCR document scanning. A good enough digital camera is capable of photographing the document which can then be [...]
iRSS Mobile Phone RSS News Feeds Reader
Mobile Phones, smartphones, pocket PCs and oder mobile devices have been around for a while but using them to connect to the Internet is a trend that manifested itself in the last years. Apple’s iPhone is one prominent example of a phone that offers many functions that require an Internet connection.
One of the popular reasons [...]
