May 2010

#FollowFriday – @howardtayler: Cartoonist, gamer, geek.

by Doc Coleman - Nifty Tech Editor May 28, 2010 Follow Friday

Ever want to know the visceral thrill of riding a stream of focused plasma across the sky?Then you need to talk to @howardtayler, the creator of the Schlock Mercenary web-comic, this year’s Artist Guest of Honor at Balticon 44, and this week’s #FollowFriday pick! Howard has managed to turn his tales of the adventures of […]

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iTunes

by Doc Coleman - Nifty Tech Editor May 24, 2010 Mac OS X

Yes, you read that right. This week I’m reviewing Apple’s iTunes software, the music management, iPod/iPhone/iPad/Apple TV syncing software that has been around since 2001. After 9 years, iTunes certainly isn’t new, cutting edge tech. But then again, it isn’t the iTunes that was released all those years ago. The basics: iTunes is free, is available […]

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#FollowFriday – @bobbyllew: Actor, podcaster, comedian, author, playwright, car nut.

by Doc Coleman - Nifty Tech Editor May 21, 2010 Follow Friday

Welcome back for another #FollowFriday post! This time we’re looking at @bobbyllew, aka Robert Llewellyn, British actor, playwright, comedian, author, and podcaster.  Bobby is probably best known as the actor playing Kryten, the campy and somewhat housework obsessed mechanoid from the BBC comedy Sci-Fi series Red Dwarf.  He also hosted the reality game show Scrapyard Challenge, […]

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#FollowFriday – @phillipajane: Fantasy author, podcaster, international wit.

by Doc Coleman - Nifty Tech Editor May 14, 2010 Follow Friday

This week our featured Tweeter is @PhilippaJane.  This is the personal Twitter stream of Philippa Ballantine, fantasy author, podcaster, and former librarian.  Pip currently has two books in print: Chasing the Bard, and its sequel Digital Magic.  While she is a native New Zealander and hails from Wellington, New Zealand, she is currently in the […]

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A (Long overdue) new Poll

by Doc Coleman - Nifty Tech Editor May 13, 2010 Feedback

The iPad poll closed way back on April 3rd… and the few of you who voted made it pretty clear that you intend to wait for next year’s version of the iPad before investing any of your hard earned cash.  Perhaps you’re hoping on a forward facing camera for video chatting?  Or maybe you just […]

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Grocery Gadget

by Doc Coleman - Nifty Tech Editor May 10, 2010 iOS

This week’s Nifty Tech Blog review is one of those iPhone apps that we talked about a few weeks ago.  Although Grocery Gadget started out as an iPhone app, it has grown to something a bit more.  It makes a fair bid to being one of the most creative ways to manage all your shopping […]

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#FollowFriday – @MrsStephenFry: Comedy Gold.

by Doc Coleman - Nifty Tech Editor May 7, 2010 Follow Friday

This week’s recommendation is @MrsStephenFry is the fictional wife of @StephenFry, noted actor, writer, technology enthusiast, and erudite gentleman, and mother of his five (or so) alleged children. Part of the humor of the whole thing is the fact that Mr Fry is quite openly homosexual and has been so for some time.

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First Impressions: 7 days with the iPad

by Doc Coleman - Nifty Tech Editor May 5, 2010 Hardware

I got my iPad on Monday, April 26th. Despite all the hype and the “reality distortion field” and the rabid flaming criticism, I wasn’t sure about the iPad, so I didn’t pre-order it. In fact, I remained firmly in the “I have to touch it first.” camp. From the accolades I had heard, I half […]

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