by Michael on July 3, 2009
It’s bound to make the headlines every couple of weeks: AT&T Mobility’s iPhone exclusivity. As the contract’s expiration nears, speculation ensues within the industry about other US cell carriers having the opportunity to host Apple’s “miraculous device.”
On the 19th of this month, the next, third generation iPhone was released to the world. Unlike it’s two predecessors, the iPhone 3GS was not a major update in terms of its feature set or design. In fact, most of its new features became accessible from previous iPhones through a free software update, and the design of the 3G and 3GS are perfectly identical. Even for such a minor update, Apple’s almost-perfect marketing put out better sales numbers with the third-generation 3GS than it had with the 3G!
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by Michael on February 16, 2009
Hello everyone,
I would like to take a moment to deeply apologize for my lack of updates since the amazing influx of traffic brought by Engadget, Boy Genius Report, and countless other news sources. I’ve been swamped with tons of work and in addition have left the country on January 27th to study abroad in Israel for approximately four months. Within the coming days, I will (finally) be posting about my third day at CES, though it is now irrelevant — just for the sake of completeness.
Thanks for your understanding. I hope to get writing again very soon…
Sincerely,
–Michael
by Michael on January 9, 2009
It’s another beautiful night in Las Vegas for the International Consumer Electronics Show. But first thing’s first: a big thank you goes out to Boy Genius Report, Engadget, and their respective authors for getting the word of the at&t-branded BlackBerry Curve 8900, which was first posted here, out to the world–I’m truly grateful. Also, props to Media Temple for handling the tremendous traffic received without a single hiccup on its Grid-Service. I’m very impressed.
In regards to CES, last night’s post earned me a ‘Blogger Pass’ to the show, up from a standard pass. The new badge gives me priority access to keynotes and other public events, as well as some quality freebies including a “CES Blogger Bag.” Unfortunately, there are no keynotes and very few public events remaining for this year’s show. However, I’ll have the same pass from the beginning of next year’s show, where it will be put to better use.
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by Michael on January 8, 2009
Phew! What a day–I didn’t stop walking from 8:30am until 6:30pm, when I was asked to leave the convention center as everyone was closing shop for the day. Today’s biggest event was without a doubt Palm’s somewhat epic comeback (that I, unfortunately, did not attend) into the mobile phone industry with their brand-new webOS. For those who similarly missed out, check out gdgt’s excellent live coverage of the event. No worries, though. I saw plenty of interesting stuff while scavenging the show floors.
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by Michael on January 7, 2009
Tonight, Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft Corporation, took the stage as the Pre-Show Keynote Speaker for the 2009 International Consumer Electronics Show. The event was covered live, right here on MichaelYork.org, where updates were broadcasted within seconds of the events occuring. Liveblog after the jump!
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by Michael on January 5, 2009
uSirius StarPlayr, an iPhone application developed by NiceMac, LLC., has created much fanfare in recent days. The application allows you to listen to both your SIRIUS and XM subscriptions on the go, utilizing the iPhone’s network connection. Today, the developers released uSirius StarPlayr Beta 1 to 200 Beta Testers, and I’m lucky to be one of them. Check out the gallery below!
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by Michael on January 4, 2009
First off, happy new year! 2009 is sure to be a fantastic year for the technology industry. I can’t think of any better way to use the first post of the year than on the most popular consumer electronics trade show in the world. For my third time ever, I’ll be one of more than 150,000 people making their way to the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas to check out the latest and greatest gadgets, listen to influential keynote speakers, and (hopefully) grab some freebies along the way…
CES has always been a strong foundation for both small and major corporations looking to release breakthrough technologies and products with the intent of capturing the attention of a giant audience. Unsurprisingly, the show was used to unveil the first VHS players, personal camcorders, cell phones, DVD players, HDTVs, and countless other milestone comsumer electronics.
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by Michael on October 31, 2008
There is nothing better for your website that recording a tutorial that will explain newcomers how to best benefit from it. This approach also gives a much better overall impression to the viewer, as it evidences a lot of care and dedication towards making a website more accessible and immediate. Developed by French start-up Iteria, ScreenToaster presents a new way to record these screencasts. With no software required except for Java, ScreenToaster lets users create quick video screen captures and embed them on any site in extremely high-quality using Adobe Flash.
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by Michael on August 26, 2008
I recently required a stable HTTP uploader on my site to get some work done. Looking at many different solutions all over the web, I came across Uber-Uploader. It’s amazingly fast, responsive, and makes great use of AJAX for its extremely accurate progress bar. My test with a 300MB video file completed without any trouble.
The problem I faced was getting the settings to work correctly under Media Temple’s grid hosting service, the (gs). After hours of messing around with the configuration files, I finally got it to work! Please note that the following instructions are meant solely for setup on the (gs), and will most likely not work in its current state on other hosting providers services.
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by Michael on August 10, 2008
This add-in for the great Windows Home Server has finally been released the general public in beta status after months of internal testing in a Private Beta! Developed by Alexander Kent, GridJunction 1.2.0 Beta manages your supported Uninterruptable Power Supply (UPS) via a USB connection to your home server and allows you to set a certain battery capacity to safely shut down your server at in an attempt to avoid any data loss. And it works. Flawlessly.
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