[Note: This was originally posted on TechFlash as a guest post; I have kindly been given permission to repost it here.]
I’m not entirely sure when it happened. It probably started a while ago — after all, I’ve been eagerly checking the PreCentral blog for the WebOS news for months now. I’ve been toying with Palm’s software development [...]
Entries Tagged as 'techflash'
[Opinion] How I Became a Palm Fanboy
February 4th, 2010 · No Comments · Links, Opinion
[Interview Link] The Student Who Risked Life and Limb For a Signed MacBook
January 29th, 2010 · No Comments · Interview, Links
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is known to react strongly in the presence of Apple technology, and not always in a good way. Take, for example, the time when he pretended to stomp on an iPhone after a Microsoft employee tried to take his a picture with it.
Jordan Bennett, a 20-year-old sophomore at Nashville’s Belmont University, [...]
Tags:steve ballmer·techflash
[CES 2010 Link] Get Ready for “Tablet 2.0″
January 6th, 2010 · No Comments · Feature, Links
You may not know it, but there’s something missing in the tech industry’s lineup of computing devices. Somewhere between the one-to-five-inch screens of smartphones and small gadgets, and the 15-inch-and-up screens of a notebook, electronics manufacturers have left a gap.
I wrote this article for TechFlash that focuses on one of the four trends that was [...]
Tags:ces 10·tablet 2.0·techflash
[Interview Link] It’s Time for Child’s Play
December 12th, 2009 · No Comments · Interview, Links
It’s holiday season, and any fan of Penny Arcade knows what that means – Child’s Play Charity.
I’m a big fan of Child’s Play Charity, and I recently got to do an interview with one of their product managers for TechFlash. Since a lot of the people that read this blog are gamers of one kind [...]
[Hands-On Link] Carnegie-Mellon ETC’s SurfaceScapes
December 6th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Links, RPG Bloggers Network, Review
A couple of months ago, a video started circling around about SurfaceScapes, a project from Carnegie-Mellon’s ETC that let you play Dungeons and Dragons 4th Edition on a Microsoft Surface.
As it so happens, I was headed to Carnegie-Mellon a day or two after that video showed up, so I quickly wrote the team and asked [...]
[Interview] A Talk with a Scribblenaut
September 15th, 2009 · No Comments · Interview
[Editor's Note: My interview with Jeremiah Slaczka of 5th Cell originally appeared on TechFlash. It has been reprinted here.]
With some puzzle games, you’re constrained by the solution that the developers give you. With the upcoming Nintendo DS game Scribblenauts from Bellevue-based 5th Cell, you get to, as the tagline says, “Write Anything, Solve Everything.”
For example, [...]
[Review] Microsoft Kodu is Fun, Despite a Few Flaws
July 10th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Review
[Note: This was originally posted on TechFlash as a guest post that I did; I have kindly been given permission to repost it here.]
The Kodu Game Lab on the Xbox Live Community Games channel is a new “game” from Microsoft Research that lets people try their programming chops through a visual interface. You can create [...]
