Andrew Wirtanen is a usability specialist in Cary, NC More »

Ads

Posts from March 2006

eBooks: Almost Ready for Prime-Time

Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to announce that I am now convinced that the days of books printed on paper are numbered. This new eBook Reader from iRex Technologies (warning: PDF link) looks almost like something I would buy. I would certainly rather use it to read eBooks than a Microsoft Origami device. Was [...]


Slider by Patrick Robinson

In anticipation of the 2006 baseball season, I picked up Slider by Patrick Robinson. The novel, first published in 2002 and re-printed in 2004, is a homage to the Cape Cod Baseball League, but falls short of portraying the league accurately and favors an unrealistic storyline. However, Slider was in fact carefully written and is [...]


Review: Goowy.com

Goowy is a web 2.0 website with an e-mail service, games, minis (aka “widgets” for you Mac people), a calendar, contacts, and coming soon: IM and file storage. Basically, Goowy is a free web service. I first heard of it on the Inside the Net podcast and I decided to check it out for myself. [...]