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(05/28/10 2:00am)
I have been penning this technology column for a long time since my freshman Fall in fact. There have been times when I have hated it for monopolizing my time and also times when I have loved it for the benefits it could get me. "Yes, sure Ms. Verizon Wireless PR lady, I will try to find time to play around with your brand-new smartphone." In the end, I like to think that I have left a small bit of myself in this little corner of The Mirror. I'm not self-indulgent enough to think I can encapsulate Dartmouth into this column, but I am self-glorifying enough to try and run back four years of my column.
(05/21/10 2:00am)
It has been over six months since Verizon released the Motorola Droid, and that makes it a senior citizen in technology terms (or maybe just a '10). That is probably why Verizon recently announced the new HTC Droid Incredible. Its hyperbolic name aside, it really is the best smartphone you can get on Verizon today and one of the best smartphones on any network. The Incredible improves on the Droid in almost every way, and dare I say it can be as good as the Apple iPhone 3GS.
(04/23/10 2:00am)
I have and will always have a soft spot for Palm and its devices. Palm is the company that made the legendary PalmPilot and it was also largely responsible for popularizing smartphones with the venerable Treo. Lately though, the general public has largely forgotten about Palm. It has been supplanted by the iPhone, BlackBerry or any one of the number of Google Android phones available. However, Palm has made one last stand in the shape of the Pre Plus, and it is quite a good one at that.
(02/19/10 4:00am)
Up until last year, thin-and-light laptops were the exotic supercars of the computing world. They were eminently portable, had great battery life, but were still fast enough to do everything a full-sized computer could. Unlike netbooks, they required no sacrifices and were fully capable computers. Recently, these ultraportable laptops with long battery life and more importantly, an affordable price, have become very popular with the college-aged crowd.
(01/15/10 4:00am)
Since the real world does not get DarTV, I am slightly concerned as to how I will watch TV next year. Because a week's worth of going out in the real world costs about as much as a whole term's worth of dues, I figured it would be a prudent move next year to forgo cable TV and just rely on some technology and the internet.
(11/20/09 4:00am)
At the beginning of this term, I convinced myself that I was going to eat healthier and exercise more. To help me with the latter, I was sent the new Nike+ Sportband to review.
(10/16/09 2:00am)
Reboot and Rally is jumping back into the Petri dish this week to conduct a head-to-head body shaver smackdown. This comparison test pits the Philips Norelco Bodygroom+ against the Braun bodycruZer. For the uninitiated, these two shavers are both designed to trim all the hair below your neck. In other words, these trimmers are made for the delicate art of "manscaping."
(09/25/09 2:00am)
Due to Twitter's inherent limitations, a cottage industry has sprung up around it in an effort to add functionality and circumvent the 140-character limit per tweet. URL-shortening services, picture hosting, GPS location logging all of these features can now be added to your Twitter updates.
(05/01/09 6:34am)
Usually each week that I'm writing, my editor will tell me to "write about some gadgets that pertain to the theme." She didn't tell me to do that this week. I guess she's finally catching on that I don't care.
(04/17/09 7:12am)
Regular readers of Reboot and Rally know that I have a somewhat unusual obsession with personal hygiene products (see the Razors Wars of March 2, 2007 and the Old Spice review of Oct. 3, 2008). This week, a new product caught my eye: the Colgate Wisp.
(04/03/09 6:32am)
This week, I was given the assignment of writing something about some "Spring tech," so my column would seem more like an actual part of The Mirror instead of the token corner of testosterone it actually is. Though technology is very seasonal, it doesn't exactly shout spring like a chartreuse scarf from J. Crew, although the bamboo-covered Dell Studio hybrid comes close.
(11/21/08 9:29am)
Although my job might seem fairly easy, it actually requires a great deal of creative thought and planning. This week, I did neither of those things.
(11/14/08 9:32am)
By Luofei Deng
(11/07/08 9:42am)
Netbooks are the new craze in computing. Everybody and their mother seems to be making these very small, very low-cost laptops. Lenovo, the company that makes the ThinkPad notebooks, has joined in on the party with the IdeaPad S10 (props for the clever name).
(10/24/08 6:46am)
Ever since T-Mobile introduced the first Sidekick way back in 2002, the phone-cum-messaging device has been a favorite of teenagers and hip-hop artists. While the iPhone gets all the public adoration these days, the newest Sidekick is still a great option for someone looking for a smartphone and does not want to use AT&T -- on principle or because their 3G wireless service requires selling the rights to your first-born every month.
(10/03/08 7:11am)
Whenever I walk through the aisles of CVS, my eyes are drawn to anything new or improved in the deodorant aisle. I recognize that my fascination is problematic, and fortunately my friends at The Dartmouth have been very supportive of me as I try to work through my issues. For the past two months, I have submitted to my own curiosity and have been splurging on $10 Old Spice Pro Strength Deodorant Pure Sport. Doesn't that roll off the tongue like poetry?
(09/26/08 7:09am)
When I opened up the FedEx box holding a Chumby, the offices of The D were full of inquisitive faces with perplexed expressions.
(05/09/08 9:13am)
Given my general inability to string together sentences and form coherent articles, as well as my questionable mastery of proper syntax, I decided it would be best not to tax myself this week by trying to write a whole article. Instead I have some Cheers and Jeers; I figure these tidbits are better for our MTV-addled attention spans.
(04/25/08 9:31am)
Last term, I wrote a piece about the Asus Eee PC, a tiny Linux laptop with a seven-inch screen that starts at $300. Next month, Asus is updating the Eee with a larger nine-inch screen, Windows XP and FingerGlide -- their unfortunately named version of Apple's multi-touch trackpad, not some new type of interactive porn. The new version of the Eee will also have more storage space, like 12GB or 20GB of flash storage. This new version is set to launch May 12 and will cost $549.
(04/11/08 7:30am)
For those interested, the arrival of the long-awaited 3G iPhone is supposedly imminent. Also, there are supposed to be new, or at least updated, iPod touches and nanos out in September. I certainly hope that happens, because then I can make it three straight years where I start the fall with an article about the newest iPods. And of course, current iPhone and iPod touch owners are anxiously awaiting firmware version 2.0 that will bring their gadgets new functionality, mostly the ability to install additional programs.