Category Archives: Hardware

Chromebook, from a non-journalist

By Shana | Published: December 22, 2010
For those curious (or have seen me with my machine)  I have one of those CR-48s, or ChromeOS notebooks. And it is truly a combination of seriously annoying and seriously amazing. it’s essentially your browser.  But they did so many nice things to your browser that the normal browser doesn’t do. eg: pinned tabs.  I [...]
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The IPad UI stupidity

By Shana | Published: January 27, 2010
Image by Getty Images via Daylife Even though I don’t really care one way or another about whether I’m blogging about what everyone else is blogging about, after seeing pictures and having to deal with weeks of (over)-hype: With all due respect to the Blogosphere, Mr. Steve Jobs, and Apple Inc., that IPad looks like [...]
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Two Disparate Veiws of Tech

By Shana | Published: September 22, 2009
Two Stories.  I’ve been thinking about them a lot because I recently finished “In The Beginning was the Command Line.” (Which is slightly more apropos for two weeks from now, but never-mind.) (The 2004 response from Slashdot, also great.) I highly recommend the essay, which can be gotten from Neal Stephenson‘s website, here.  It is [...]
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Smartphone Tipoffs on the Street

By Shana | Published: August 3, 2009
Image by runnx via Flickr Currently on the Web, there is a lot of discussion about phones, particularly smartphones. I decided, in honor of this discussion, to do the following today: Go up to a few people and start chatting them up about their phones (particularly if they had a smartphone) and try to count [...]
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Hearing the Voice from Cisco’s Chambers

By Shana | Published: July 26, 2009
Image by dfarber via Flickr In Saturday’s WSJ, Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers explains parts of the long term strategy to survive a downturn.  One thing that seems to be a theme of the new strategy, beyond the buzzword of the moment, Web 2.0, is their interest in video. It’s their big, open, yet dirty [...]
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Convergence and Divergence of the Flip

By Shana | Published: July 15, 2009
Image by Boyan Yurukov via Flickr Someone I was friendly with in college posted this link (http://bit.ly/15oAMt), from his Digg to Facebook. In it, is a whole analysis of whether, as shown by the IPhone 3GS, phones will also start converging into point-and -shoot camcorders, ala the Flip, owned by Cisco. A closer look around [...]
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The Internet is the New Computer

By Shana | Published: July 10, 2009
Most denizens of the Internet often fail to realize that, compared to the many machines we run the Internet on, the Internet is very young.  To give a fair analogy- the Internet in human age could be the child or the grandchild of the first computer, the Zuse Z3, made in 1941.  The Internet, in [...]
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Machine/Human/Beauty- A series on interfaces, art, design, and humanity

By Shana | Published: July 8, 2009
Image via Wikipedia As an art student with a great interest in the human figure, I’ve recently come to recognize that there might be people who have not dwelled on what makes for compelling software and hardware objects. As both a beginner to the coding side of life, but at least an intermediate student in [...]
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