Why can’t my iPhone become my library card?

Well, the reality is it can, and some city and county libraries are already doing this, it makes sense. If you go to check out a book and you have unpaid library overdue notices or late fines, it will charge your iPhone, and if you have an iPhone app which allows you to do this, it will keep track of all the books you have checked out, along with those you’ve already checked out, and all of their due dates. In fact some of these apps now keep track of those due dates for you, and give you a reminder starting at three days before they are absolutely due.

That’s a pretty cool app isn’t it? Sure it is, as long as that information stays in your iPhone and no one else gets a hold of it. They often say you can judge a person by what they read, and I’m not saying you are, but if you were involved in any criminal activity, the first thing the FBI wants to look at is what you’ve been reading. Which makes sense if you are reading books on chemistry, but you work in a butcher shop, and someone suspects that you may be making bombs – well then you can understand why the FBI might want to figure out what you’re reading, as they put together a case. Read more…

If you think that you could improve your productivity with better tools at your disposal, it might not be necessary to invest as much money as you think in making this upgrade. Our unavoidable dependence on electronic machinery has forced us into thinking that the only way to move up in our professional and personal lives are to purchase brand new products. Yet, in the case of personal computers, you can actually make a considerable upgrade to one of the most popular and reliable options by investing in a Dell laptop motherboard. This leading brand has been a dependable choice for small and large businesses alike, offering them technology that works in their favor at an affordable rate.

Acquiring a Dell laptop motherboard is much simpler than you might guess. In fact, the motherboard is the fundamental component for your personal computer. Hence, its widespread availability is undeniable. With more people thinking about how they can reduce costs while still making a improvements on the tools that they rely on daily, the ability to replace a Dell laptop motherboard is a great way to take the necessary measurements without going over the top. Make changes within your means, while still getting the most out of your choices.

In addition to the economic factors that commonly play a role in the upgrades that we choose to make with regard to our personal technology, such as purchasing a new Dell laptop motherboard, there is also the morality of this decision as well. Increasingly, people are becoming aware of how senseless consumption only leads to more problems for the world over. The more we create and consume, the more we are forced to dispose of. In the case of technological equipment, computers from as little as 10 years ago are already completely obsolete, rendering them irrelevant to the planet in general. Where do all these used-up pieces of machinery go, you might ask? Read more…

It is hard to imagine now, but just over a decade ago we didn’t have PlayStations or iPods, nobody used the internet or even had access to it, nobody had heard of Twitter, the iPad was inconceivable and our mobile phones were so big you could use them as a dumbbell when you weren’t talking on them. Now fast forward to 2011 and our computers are super powerful (although never powerful enough) we can cram enough technology to guide a cruise missile (apparently) into a games console, and we can have gadgets in our pocket that are no bigger than a matchbox which hold 1000′s of songs.

So where do we go from here? I mean gadgets get cooler every year, both in design and in function, nobody could have imagined in the year 2000 the smooth lines of the iPhone 3 captivating the market like they did, but surely things are as cool as they are going to get? Well the poor designers and engineers unfortunately need to find a way to make things cooler and more interesting because that is the only way the company they work for can sell enough products to pay their salary!

They can’t just sit back on their laurels and admire how beautiful their latest creation is, because we’ll be bored with it in about 3 days time when we find out the image portrayed on the adverts isn’t really what life is like once you buy the latest and greatest gadget, and then we start lusting over the next shining object that is going to come out. Essentially we have all turned into gadget zombies, we just on any new gadget, suck the life out of it and then move onto the next as quickly as possible. Read more…