Thoughts about design and technology.

Three years after the Xbox 360’s release comes a new version of the Xbox… software. In a similar move to the Zune, Microsoft has decided to focus on software upgrades for improving their current hardware. While some would say the new interface overhaul was unecessary, after actually using it for a while, besides being prettier, it starts […]

Details have been coming out about the next version of Windows, to be called Windows 7. Vista hasn’t gotten very good praise since it came out. Even though I’m a Vista user and do like it overall, it seems like Windows 7 is basically designed to make critics of Vista happy. And to make it […]

Google’s Android mobile phone platform is getting closer to making it into actual devices and with it comes new apps that we can expect to see. Some initial ones were selected through the Android Developer Challenge. Here are five of them that I thought were particularly interesting:

PhoneBook 2.0 - Seems like where cell phone contacts […]

As I started reading a blog post about a desktop app recommendation, I realized I needed to change out my desktop wallpaper (I usually look for a new one about every 1-2 months). By the time I finished the article, I thought about how desktop wallpaper can be distracting sometimes.
I went into my desktop settings […]

Some may say that these last couple of years have been rather slow for technology improvements. I would disagree. For years new hardware for the desktop computer has been developed. Since computers have come to the desktop, the challenge was always to develop hardware powerful enough to keep up with the software we wanted to […]