Daily Archives: October 9, 2010

Life in a can?

CNN is running a report on living in a giant tin can, oops! I mean a grain silo… Soup can-shaped homes could be cropping up on a street near you very soon. Addressing affordable housing shortages across America, Philadelphia-based architects Aleksandr Mergold and Jason Austin, of firm Austin + Mergold, have come up with the innovative idea of… Read More »

Upgrading Adobe Flash:

It seems that Adobe is using the ADOBE Download Manager to surreptitiously install not just Flash updates but McAfee Security Plugins these days. I’m not exactly sure why. When using the getPlus DLM software on updating Firefox, I clicked the update not realizing or knowing that other software would be installed. Nor did I have any option to… Read More »

Nokia N79: two years and counting

When Chinese New Year comes, I’ll have had my mobile phone for 2 years… and my how things have changed in the past two years: We’ve had a crumbling Nokia who turns out could have had the first touch phone several years before the iphone came on the scene. We’ve had several iterations of the iphone handset, and… Read More »