TransitPal 2.0

TransitPal 2.0
The next version of TransitPal is nearing release soon and I wanted to share what some of the changes have been since version 1.0. This update brings many new features that will help make TransitPal the companion you need if you ride SEPTA regularly. The first version of TransitPal wasn’t all that exciting. It was ...

The Code Blog

I have been looking for a while for the proper focus for this blog. Would it be a personal blog? a code blog? a tech news blog? or something else… I have settled, finally, on the Code Blog theme. I will occasionally chime in with interesting technology or news, but the main focus will be ...

Mango Walkthrough

Mango Walkthrough
Mobile Review gave a very detailed 13 minute walk-through of the upcoming Windows Phone 7.1/Mango. This is the first very deep glimpse into what the OS update will look like and it shows the platform reaching a major maturity point. With this update Windows Phone 7 is looking less like a 1.0 product and more ...

Is your phone watching you?

Is your phone watching you?
The Internet has been full of conversation regarding the finding that the iPhone 4 contains a database tracking users locations via GPS and other information. This database, which stored a year of history or more, was also synced back to the computer via iTunes and stored unencrypted. As noted in this article iPhone keeps record ...

Has Apple Taken Over?

Has Apple Taken Over?
After reading Does anyone in Silicon Valley care about Windows anymore? I am forced to wonder if the author is out of touch with reality. He makes the case that Windows 8 isn’t going to be very interesting to anyone because no one cares about PCs anymore. The future has been won by Apple and ...

Sponsored Kindle

Sponsored Kindle
Amazon loves to post their major product news regarding the Kindle on their homepage. Not too surprising as it gets them the largest exposure and it is their web property. So I opened the Amazon homepage today and was greeted by a long “letter” from Jeff, their CEO, explaining the cheaper Kindle offering. My eyes ...

New WP7 Build Depolying?

New WP7 Build Depolying?
Has Microsoft been listening to us users as much as they have been claiming lately? Us users have been asking for updates at a greater frequency, a lot more than twice a year, and the rumors are we might get that. According to WMPowerUser there is a newer build of WP7, newer than NoDo, being ...

Is Nokia still the best?

I have always felt that Nokia was the king of cellphone hardware. I remember having an old Nokia phone when I started at Temple before I got my first Smartphone. Having a boring student job I spent hours a day throwing the phone at the cinder block wall repeatedly. It lived up to it well… ...

Was that a bias?

Me and Kerri have been running through life at an impressive pace. I don’t know if it is our determination or the fact that life moves at a breakneck pace no matter what you do that has propelled us, but we’re moving regardless. The latest major goal of ours is to bring an end to ...

Imposter Syndrome

I finally have a name for the way I view the world – or at least me in it. I couldn’t help but feel like I was reading a message written for me while reading Why I feel like a fraud earlier today.