Michael York

Technical thoughts galore.

Tag: beta

CES 2009: Day 1 in Vegas

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 [...]

uSirius StarPlayr Makes Its Beta Debut

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 [...]

ScreenToaster: Screencasts sans bloated downloads.

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 [...]

fonolo: Never listen to a phone menu again.

fonolo, a new service and startup based in Ontario, Canada, plans on changing the way we interact with large corporation’s phone systems. How so? They’ve developed a new technology which calls into these toll-free numbers, and in a sense, “spiders” the phone system. The system completely scans the menus and displays them in a “map” [...]