The Motorola Droid officially dropped yesterday. It’s the first of several Android-powered devices coming to the Verizon network. Here’s a quick list of relevant phone features.
3.7″ capacitive touchscreen, 480×854 resolution
5 mega-pixel camera with flash, zoom and focus
16 GB storage card, 256 MB of system RAM
Horizontal slider with on-screen and physical keyboards
Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, e-compass
The Motorola [...]
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We’ve mentioned sporadically that Palm would be releasing the closest thing we’ve seen to an iPhone killer in the last two years. We just didn’t know when it would happen, though we knew it would be exclusively on the Sprint network for at least a while.
Today, Palm finally announced the official [...]
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Optical media has had a great run. Music CDs are only now beginning to be retired after being the dominant distribution medium for the last two decades. DVDs continue to remain popular to distribute movies, though their days are severely numbered in favor of both Blu-Ray and, more importantly, Internet distribution of movies.
The [...]
2009 Hall of Fame Inductees
Marvin Knopp
John Shoemaker
2009 President
Dave Webb
2009 President Elect
Andy Conser, CAGA, AARE
2009 Vice President
Jack Newcom
New Directors starting 2009
Megan McCurdy
Byron Bina
Eric Bloomquist
Presidential Award of Distinction
Richard Garvin
Livestock Contest Winner
Charlie Cummings
Rookie Contest Winner
Mike Boesker
Scholarship Award Winners
Adam Pounds
Callie McCaffrey
Logan Fullerton
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Video can be a fantastic marketing tool. The same video can convey a sense of incompetence if not distributed correctly. Ignoring the difference between an expensively-produced video and simple footage captured with a camcorder, both of which can be effective and important as components of marketing campaigns, the way a video is delivered [...]
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I guess I’m probably not going to get much Google play out of those two statements, so I’d better keep going.
Hard drives fail. As hard drives keep getting bigger at an absurd rate, they become more complex and more fragile. There are so many moving parts in conventional, platter-based [...]
One of the first pieces of auction technology adopted by an auctioneer augmenting his business processes is a projection system. I was at an auction in Denton, Texas, where there were more than 30 large plasma and LCD TVs – most to be sold that day – showing the same display of the item currently [...]
Read the rest of this entry »My HP Pavilion tablet PC is slowly dying. Sent to and returned from the shop twice already since I bought it 14 months ago, both times for a motherboard replacement, its hard drive started flaking on me last month. I was able to repair the hard drive with a disk utility and it’s been working [...]
Read the rest of this entry »As I was browsing my daily news feeds this morning, I came across an article about Skyfire.
I got my Treo 700wx based on Windows Mobile 5 in November of 2006. Its coolness lasted for several months, but I started wanting for more when the iPhone and Windows Mobile 6 came out. The biggest missing pieces [...]
Apple today released new versions of their iTunes software as well as updated versions of iPods. This release was hardly surprising and, as predicted, there wasn’t anything unexpected or widely diverging from the rumors that had been floating around the Internet.
The take-aways are really fewer than I had expected.
iTunes 8 is out and it’s cool. [...]
I’m typing away on my Apple slim aluminum keyboard. It’s the one I poured nearly a full cup of coffee into a couple weeks ago. I dried it, wet it, dried it again and when it wouldn’t work I’d left it for dead. A week passed and I tried it one more time and it’s [...]
Read the rest of this entry »I was playing around on the NAA forum, a great member benefit for auctioneers, and I realized that what I was writing was applicable to just about anyone, not just auctioneers. Here you are, for whatever it may be worth to you.
I’ve been using Linux on the desktop for the last two years. It’s fantastic [...]
