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On Web Readability & Formatting

It’s not exactly gadgets-related, but I’ve written up a piece with advice for increasing web readability and how to keep people from skimming your carefully crafted content. It’s over on my company’s web development blog and it covers some basic, ...

From CHRIS CARDINAL, Gear Live,  20 May 2008

HD DVD vs. Blu-ray Paramount Denies Rumors of Defection from HD DVD

Some channels were reporting earlier that Paramount was looking to bail from the HD boat, enabled by a clause in their contract that cited Warner Bros. departure as grounds to themselves switch. Paramount is now denying these claims, their spokesperson ...

From CHRIS CARDINAL, Gear Live,  8 Jan 2008
Related Topics: Warner Bros.,  Google Inc.

CES 2008: Live From BlogHaus

We’re camped out at the CES 2008 Bloghaus sponsored by Seagate. It’s a swanky suite at the Bellagio with the best internet in the city and an open bar. We’ll be using this as our base of operations to edit and push up all of our exclusive video but ...

From CHRIS CARDINAL, Gear Live,  6 Jan 2008
Related Topics: Bill Gates,  Google Inc.

CES 2008: Wowwee Announces New, Plasticky Robotic Things

Not one to be left behind by Ugobe’s recently released, highly lifelike Pleo robotic dinosaur, Wowwee’s fired back with their announcement of their 2008 product line. Mr. Personality, pictured, features a full color LCD screen that portrays ...

From CHRIS CARDINAL, Gear Live,  6 Jan 2008

Pioneer Kuro HDTV Concept: 50-inch, 9mm Thin Plasma

Billed as being “thinner than last month’s Wired magazine” and similarly thinner than an iPhone, Pioneer unveiled their Kuro HDTV concept model at their press conference today. The 50-inch plasma weighs in at a relatively paltry 41 lbs and just 9 mm ...

From CHRIS CARDINAL, Gear Live,  6 Jan 2008
Related Topics: Google Inc.

Warner Drops HD-DVD, Lone Tear Streams Down Toshiba’s Face

Warner Bros. announced they were becoming an exclusively Blu-Ray studio this weekend, apparently completely pulling the rug on the HD-DVD camp. Said a Toshiba press release: TOKYO, Jan. 4 /PRNewswire/—Toshiba is quite surprised by Warner Bros.’ ...

From CHRIS CARDINAL, Gear Live,  6 Jan 2008
Related Topics: Toshiba,  Warner Bros.,  Microsoft Corporation

Matrox DualHead2Go Digital Edition Reviewed (Verdict: Spot-on)

It’s easy to become addicted to the beauty of more screen real estate on your machine. Once you’ve used two displays, you really hate to go back to a single anemic, constrained display. I tend to work with an extremely fractured workflow, with dozens ...

From CHRIS CARDINAL, Gear Live,  13 Sep 2007
Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation

CES 2007: Cisco Sues Apple Over iPhone Name

Venturus : A day in the life of an Internet entrepreneur Cisco, who holds the trademark on the iPhone product name (and already sells an eponymous product) has decided to sue Apple in federal court for use of their trademark. This, after much ...

From CHRIS CARDINAL, Gear Live,  16 Jan 2007
Related Topics: Cisco Systems, Inc.,  Yahoo!

CES 2007: MediaREADY MC Media Center

Playfeed brings you all the latest news on the Nintendo Wii MediaREADY showed us their Linux-based MC Media Center. While the face looked a bit like an 80s VCR, complete with old-school, flashing-twelve LCD clock, the concept and software seemed pretty ...

From CHRIS CARDINAL, Gear Live,  10 Jan 2007
Related Topics: TiVo Inc.

CES 2007: Copious Amounts Of Video Coming Oh-So-Soon

We have video. LOTS of video. We’re talking over 80 (seriously, 80) segments, waiting in the wings. Jesse and I spent all day touring the show floor, and we have some really great, very fun and sometimes hilarious segments (that aren’t all gadget ...

From CHRIS CARDINAL, Gear Live,  10 Jan 2007
Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation,  Intel

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