Category Archives: Geek Stuff

Verizon Wireless and the LTE Network…

Posted on February 27, 2011 by

I realize that we’re all human, however for technology services I tend to offer service providers with a pretty high level of scrutiny.  Over the past few months I have been trying out the Verizon LTE offering. For those of … Continue reading →

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PanTech UML 290 LTE–First Thoughts

Posted on January 3, 2011 by

So I bit the bullet and bought the PanTech UML 290 from Verizon Wireless, flat out. Works like a champ… when it works. The above speed test was taken from my house.  I noticed that after about ten minutes, the … Continue reading →

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Bye Bye Goog-411

Posted on November 11, 2010 by

http://cid-0bc4c9d6d8f9371b.office.live.com/embedphoto.aspx/.Public/uvageek/GoogleMobileAppResults.PNGI’m a little saddened to read that Google is discontinuing their 411 service, however I figure that now that they the US population has freely provided millions of voices with different inflections, pronunciations and words, Google’s digital stomach is churning … Continue reading →

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Are we getting cooked by Wifi?

Posted on January 10, 2010 by

So over the past few weeks I’ve been taking more time for me. Not a bad thing right? Getting a balance back in place of sorts. One of my guilty pleasures is to read. Whether news feeds or books, it’s … Continue reading →

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Nuance Dragon for iPhone

Posted on December 8, 2009 by

Like whoa, Nuance has created an iPhone App and released it to allow for dictation similar to their Dragon Naturally Speaking software for the PC. Pretty wild but you can text or email, update a Facebook status, send notes and … Continue reading →

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Watchmen & Wall-E Mashup

Posted on April 12, 2009 by

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Charting it up… The story of my life…

Posted on December 29, 2008 by

If you’re a vigilant reader of XKCD.com, then you more than likely already saw this, but it cracks me up to no end… For those of you that like to graph everything, if you’re in the SharePoint or asp.net world, … Continue reading →

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Driving Simulator on Google Maps

Posted on June 29, 2008 by

So I came across this site this afternoon and just started laughing – it’s basically like Grand Theft Auto the original, completely 2D, but what’s that, I can drive over buildings?  Oh yes. So, the one thing that I can … Continue reading →

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MacBook Pro or no…

Posted on June 22, 2008 by

So I’ve been contemplating buying a MacBook Pro for a while now.  And yes, I realize that there will be a hardware refresh sometime in the next six to eight months… though I also realize that in the past whenever … Continue reading →

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I Will Derive

Posted on May 25, 2008 by

So I would like to interrupt this analysis of the Four Hour Work Week (gone horribly wrong in my own lifestyle implementation recently) with a little geek humour – from our friends at /. that decided to post “I will … Continue reading →

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