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Lots of folks have asked me about Twitter, especially when they see me poking away at my iPhone or spelling things into “voicemail”.  This video does a great job of explaining twitter, and why I use it.

Taryn & I have shiny new toys!  Actually Taryn has a new toy and I’m waiting on mine to arrive.  We both want to say thank you to our generous benefactor for them.  They Rock!  While Taryn wasn’t all that keen on having one, yesterday I heard her call it ‘my baby’, or was it ‘my preciousssss’? It is a really sweet piece of technology, and consolidates her e-collection (Palm Lifedrive, Casio Exlim camera, iPod, and Motorola Razr cellphone) into one light & easy to use tool.  Setup was a breeze, and use is very intuitive.  We’ve got three complaints thus far: 1) everything stored on her old phone is now inaccessible (contacts, movies, and pictures), and 2) with only 8GB of non-expandable memory it’s not going to hold much of her music collection, and 3) the typepad isn’t designed for the thick-fingered among us.  On the upside: 1) the camera is excellent, 2) the screen’s quality blows us both away, 3) the internet access (while slow) is very convenient, and 4) it’s very easy to sync your outlook/music/calendar/photos (even on PCs).  I’ll have to wait and see how the screens hold up to daily use, and we’ll have to find good cases to protect them.  I haven’t been able to connect it to our wireless network at home yet, which I am pretty sure is due to user error.  It’s also kind of funny how it tries furiously to connect to every wifi access point it finds as you’re driving through a residential neighborhood.  On that note, here is an article on how the iPhones are wreaking havoc on the Duke campus wifi network.  Here, buggy buggy buggy!
 

Windows has launched a tabletop computer, where the tabletop is the screen and you interact with it by touching the tabletop with your fingers instead of using a mouse and keyboard.  I’ve seen these before, but I figured it would be *years* before they’d be seen in the real world.  Even though they’re only selling them (at $5K to $10K) to commercial customers, it’s only a matter of time before they make they’re way to us!  When it comes out, I am so going to get one.  You really need to watch the video.  I was most impressed with the way it acted as a conduit for transferring that picture wirelessly.

For just a second, upon reading this article, I thought… “That would be *way* cool!”