Selectively Accurate

I started a new blog: xtgo.net.  It’s merely a branch of my current blog.  I realize that most people don’t care to read about the techy stuff that I write about from time to time.  Additionaly, there are people who don’t care to read about… well… everything else.  So… in an attempt to be a bit more focused, blog.xtego.com will continue to be about personal stuff and will continue to be published to facebook.  Xtgo.net, on the other hand, will encompass all things techy.  So… if you’ve enjoyed my nerdiness in the past I invite you to check out my new blog.

Panasonic is suposedly going to roll out production of a new 3D camera.  It sports two lenses fused together to form native 3D capturing using a single device.  For those of you who know how 3D video works, you would know that there are a couple of ways to do it.  While I’ve never messed around with it myself, I do understand some of the basic concepts.  Whether one wants to create 3D illusions from polarity or using color accents, both cases require two angles.  Previously, of course, this was done with 2 cameras.  Fancy the fact that it will now be possible with one.  You’ve heard it said, everything is better with bluetooth, (CBS’s “The Big Bang Theory,” Sheldon speaking) well I say… “Everything is better in three dimensions.”

I launched a new service today to help people use the power of Google to find free music (mp3, wav, and ogg files) on the internet.  Some of you may have used services like this in the past.  G2p.org, for example, is a good one.  However, this new service filters out some of the bogus results that would be returned with g2p.org.  The service is called Free Music Finder and it can be found here:

MusicFinder.xtego.com

Check it out, and enjoy!

The apple store goes down just before the press release then comes back up right after revealing the new products we’ve just heard about.  I expected the same thing palm.  However, I hit up palmone.com well after the press release had concluded and I was met with the Palm Treo Pro.  That’s old news.  There was nothing to satisfy my apetite for the new pre.  Oh well, not everyone can be like Apple.  But that’s not the only Apple vibe I got…

The Palm pre, like an iPhone?

Now keep in mind, I haven’t held one of these suckers yet (hence the blind review), But I’m trying to decide what palm is trying to do here.  They seem pretty confident with this new design which resembles an iPhone when closed, a slide phone action, a large screened Centro when open, and still somehow a clamshell when opened.  Get all that?  Will it take off?  Time will tell, I suppose.  As far as the iPhone resemblance goes… there’s a touch screen with big icons, the status bar at the top looks striking similar to that of the iPhone, and lets not forget the dock at the bottom of the screen.  The only thing that really sets it apart is the keyboard. It looks a lot like a centro keyboard, maybe a little bit bigger. But it doesn’t really matter. Any keyboard is going to be faster than trying to type on the iPhone’s touch screen.   But wait… there’s more.

THIS JUST IN

The palm website is now up with pictures!!

Sexy

Okay, it does look nice.  It’s curvy… not too big.  I’m warming up to it.  I’m thinking it’s going to be a hit.

WebOS

It looks like Palm is learning a bit from Apple’s success.  The new OS, appropriately called, WebOS, is html/css driven.  That means developing for it will be much easier than even… say the iPhone and its objective C.  However, how easily will it be to get apps for it.  Even blackberry has been trying to open up the development scene but so far with little success.  What I’d like to see is Palm keeping this thing open.  I think it’s smart to use common web technologies but take it one step further and don’t lock it down to only get apps through an “app store”.

Sprintel

Yes, they went with CDMA on this one, and Sprint!?!?  I didn’t hear anything about a GSM version but if anyone has, let me know!  Nevertheless, I’m pulling for Palm.  Let’s be honest, they need a break.  To me, they are the underdog of the PDA world, not afraid to take a risk even after past failures.  And for that… props!

GSM (Added several hours later)

It’s looking there actually may be a GSM model released but it’s doubtful that we’ll see it in the U.S., at least for a while.

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In Response to: Google rumored to be developing own router, also mowing own lawn, doing own laundry

Somewhere inside of Google there is a building, and inside that building there is an office the size of a small house, and inside that office there is a man… with power.  This man had an idea to optimize more daily internet traffic in a single day than any nerd can pull in his lifetime.  “Let’s develop our own router,” he said.  And much like when God said, “Let there be light,” there was a new router.

If the rumor is true, this won’t be the first time that Google has had its hand in hardware development, and certainly won’t be the last.  Apparently for the internet giant to even consider designing it’s own routers means that the merch they are getting from Juniper networks just isn’t cutting it.  And while Juniper’s stock may fall even at the speculation, hopefully GOOG will take a jump.  Either way, only time will tell if this is actually true or not.

It’s called iMacros and if you’re a geek like me, you’ll already have an idea of what it does just based on the name.  Remember the days of VB macros in MS office?  Well, welcome iMacros to the stage.  Much like we can automate redundant, menial tasks in Office or in Photoshop, iMacros lets you automate tasks that you need to do frequently in Firefox.  The best thing, it’s limitations are almost nonexistent.  Essentially anything you can do in Firefox, you can let iMacros do for you.  For example:

When I arrive at work in the morning, there are several web-based systems which I need to log in to.  With iMacros, instead of manually opening up a separate tab for each system and logging in, I simply click one button and iMacros takes care of the rest.  All I do is sit back and watch as iMacros logs me in to my time clock, billing system, ticket system, and company wiki.  It’s like a piece of butter.  … … … Okay maybe not like butter… … … now that I think about, I don’t know what I meant by that.

Yeah, I said it.  You can read that line again if you don’t believe me.  Currently the beta of Windows 7 is only available to MSDN subscribers, but the public beta launches less than 24 hours from the time of this post.  I’m downloading it now at a crawling 200.9 KB/sec and will surely post my findings here once I get it installed.

Steve Ballmer

Oh and one more thing.  Is it wrong that every time I see Steve Ballmer on stage I think of,  “Developers, developers, developers, developers…”?  Anyone else with me on that?