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By: New Jawbone Headset: More Comfortable, Better Sound, Flashy Colors | Technologizer

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 02:06:12 +0000

[...] one I can love unreservedly. I have trouble getting them to stay in my ear; I find myself having to futz with buttons and Bluetooth; and sound quality, of course, remains variable. That said, I admire what Aliph has done over the [...]

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:06:46 +0000

I have to disagree with Bluetooth, i have a parrot car kit and absolutely LOVE IT!! i hate using the bluetooth headsets but the car kit is awesome, have never once had an issue with it not connecting to my iphone, and call quality for both parties is fantastic.

By: Potpourri ~ Revelations From An Unwashed Brain

Potpourri ~ Revelations From An Unwashed Brain — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 07:09:14 +0000

[...] McCracken, late of PCWorld, and now of Technologizer, shows that those who work in technology can have their very own Luddite moments, as he rails [...]

By: Alan Ralph

Alan Ralph — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 22:04:37 +0000

Biggest problem I have with RSS feeds are that some sites produce a LOT of news, and it can be a royal pain to sift thru… I’ve taken to using services like PostRank and FeedScrub, in conjunction with Google Reader, to try and tame the guilty parties. Also, I’ve started to make more use of Twitter and Friendfeed (and also Facebook, to a lesser extent) to find interesting and useful links.

On the subject of mice, mine is a Wacom Intuos2 :) I use the supplied mouse on the tablet for browsing and general tasks, then switch to the pen for art-y stuff.

By: Chris Bucchere

Chris Bucchere — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:31:03 +0000

@Steve OMG — hilarious! Your comment about “wonderdully” is spot-on! So good, but was it intentional or a Freudian slip?

By: Chris Bucchere

Chris Bucchere — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:27:33 +0000

Great article! Agree on all of ‘em except feeds. From the perspective of a fellow web publisher and blogger, of course I want people coming to my sites and getting the full experience — the design, the content, the ads (!), etc. — but as a consumer of online content, I’d be totally unproductive without RSS/Atom and a good feed reader. Not to mention all the amazing mashups that can be built because so many data are available in a structured format. RSS is not without its problems, but the web w/o it just wouldn’t be as useful or interesting.

One point that’s kind of related to your point about Blu-Ray, the now defunct HD-DVD and HD in general: the concept of packing more data onto optical media is great, but as we learned from the Betamax vs. VHS debacle (or did we?), two standards is about as good as no standard. Anyway, formats aside, picture quality has a lot to do with the technologies behind different display types (e.g. CRT, LCD, plasma). But I think some displays have gotten a little too “good” for their own good. There’s this technology some vendors are using called “interpolation” where an algorithm inserts composite frames in between real frames to add “smoothness” to video. (It goes by different names depending on the vendor, e.g. “Clear Motion Drive,” “FineMotion Advanced,” etc.) Whatever you call it, the results are totally disconcerting. I saw parts of the movie “21″ and it looked like it was shot by amateurs with really expensive HD video cameras! The motion is so “smooth” that it goes beyond realistic to the point where it’s almost unnatural. It’s hard to describe, but easy to see — just go look at some high-end TVs and compare them. Anyway, if this were my collection of technologies everyone loves but I hate, HDTV with interpolation would definitely make the list.

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By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:16:08 +0000

“Touchpads are wonderdully ambidextrous.” Dunno if that was a typo, but “wonderdully” is a great coinage for something that works perfectly in an unsurprising, plodding sort of way. Like, say, a touchpad.

By: Jake

Jake — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:41:51 +0000

I’m a righty, but I buy ambidextrous mice because I switch mousing hands every once in a while just to avoid RSI.

By: mathiastck

mathiastck — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:30:38 +0000

I experimented with various bluetooth headsets, but found it annoying to try to synch to multiple different devices, and no bluetooth headset won out in the end.

The bluetooth device that won was my bluetoothed car stereo, a Sony XPLOD MEX-BT2500.

http://www.a2dp.info/Car-Accessories/Sony-XPLOD-MEX-BT2500-Bluetooth-CD-Receiver.html

It just made it all so convenient. It was real annoying trying to dig my phone or a headset out and get it ready before a drive, and not a good idea to try while driving. But letting the stereo handle it is great. I can answer the phone by hitting the largest button on the stereo, and hang up the same way. I don’t have to resync, if my phone is in range of the stereo, and the stereo is on, the calls go there. The call quality seems great on my end, although admittedly I’ve had to repeat things more often for the listener.