Month April 2005

Yahoo isn’t flashy. However they have a huge amount of highly useful free and premium services. I’m using Y! Plus now, it’s $1.99 a month, and installs its own browser that has lots of custom and advanced features for when…

Raucous S.F. rally at his fund-raiser for ballot measures Thousands of noisy protesters outside the Ritz-Carlton hotel greeted Governor Schwarzenegger as he arrived in San Francisco for a fund-raising dinner. CBS 5 report by Sharon Chin. KPIX-TV San Francisco. Quicktime…

It used to be that no-name clone notebook computers were low end and unreliable. This no longer true. I recently got a Wintec KN1 notebook, and it’s state of the art – 15.4 inch wide screen, every port imaginable, Pentium…

Fired police chief admits bilking parents of assets

The Japanese tech giant announced today a new generation lithium-ion battery technology which can be recharged to 80% in one minute, with total recharge taking a few minutes more. This is huge. Recharge time for everything from cell phones to notebook computers…