Last Thanksgiving Day, I had the opportunity to buy the new ROKU HD-XR Media Player at a deeply discounted price. It was the company’s Black Friday online promo and they limited the sale to only 500 units of their top-of-the-line streaming media player. In 30 minutes, all 500 units were gone. And, trust me, the…

My trusty Nokia 6230 was badly bruised after almost 4 years of use. It had endured numerous drops & bangs, numerous cellophane tapes at the back cover because of the oversized battery I installed and dust had perennially gathered on its minuscule but colored screen. During this period, Apple Computer had already become Apple, Inc…

During our recent visit to Puerto Rico early this year, I brought along my Garmin NUVI 660 to test its accuracy as well as its dependability. Since we bought the unit about middle of 2007, it had been our constant travel companion for much of our trips around California and had been quite dependable on…

Since the Palm Pilot debuted in the 1996 and established the PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) market, many had no doubts that, one day, PDAs will approximate the power of a personal computer. That time is here – thanks to rapid advances in flat-screen & wireless technologies, as well as in flash memory – and there’s…

Apple System Software 1.x (1984) = Microsoft Windows 1.01, aka “Presentation Manager” (1986) Apple System Software 2.x (1985) = Microsoft Windows 2.x aka, “Windows 286/386” (1987) Apple System Software 3.x (1986) = Microsoft Windows 3.0 (1990) Apple System Software 4.x (1987) = Microsoft Windows 3.1 (1992) Apple System Software 5.x (1987) = Microsoft Windows 3.11,…