The Information Age is filled with staggering amounts of information. Some good, some bad. It’s amazing how much you can find about people, places and things.
For instance, I just found a new word that relates to exactly how much information is being consumed on a daily basis.
Ready for this one? Enter the zettabyte. And not just …

Amid word that sales of the Kindle ebook reader wound up being the biggest-selling gift item ever puchased in Amazon’s history, there’s also an analysis about what makes Kindle such a good choice for book buyers: maybe…just maybe…it’s the fact that the majority of the ebook’s best-selling titles aren’t really for sale at all.
And why pay for all that paper …

You’ve probably seen this clever ad, but in case you haven’t, I couldn’t resist posting it here.
Apple’s iPhone is displaying the Christmas spirit — yeah, there are apps for that! — through this spot designed to highlight all of the many functions the popular smartphone can now handle.  Watch the spot after the jump:

My first mobile phone was a bulky Motorola that was stored in a black bag and had a cigarette lighter plug for power. There was no shoving it into your pocket. That was in 1987 or so.
A study out of Scandinavia has been watching people who have used mobile phones, presumably the bulky kind and the newer, pocket-sized …

I was browsing through the website Lifehacker and found a post called, Top 10 Clever Fixes for Your Broken Stuff. When you scroll down to item #3 in the post, it has a few solutions that might help rescue your cell phone if you ever accidentally submerge it in water.
What I found interesting was the mention of a paper …

Here’s another reason to make sure your anti-virus software is up to date!
A former Massachusetts government employee has finally been cleared of child pornography charges, after eleven months of struggling to clear his name.
The culprit, it turns out, was a computer virus designed to visit up to 40 child porn sites per minute, a literally-inhuman feat.
The man and his wife …

Verizon Wireless is being sued by AT&T for their new “There’s a Map for That” commercial, which parodies Apple Computer’s “There’s an Ap for That” campaign for its iPhone.
The ad shows a Verizon customer and an AT&T customer walking around with translucent United States maps floating over their heads to illustrate the two carriers’ 3G networks.
The Verizon map, with coverage indicated …

To celebrate the release of Windows 7, Burger King restaurants in Japan are offering something special to their first 30 customers of the day:  a Septuple Whopper.  (They’re not calling it that, exactly, but that’s what it is:  seven patties between two buns.)
At 2,100 calories, it’s a full day’s calories in one sandwich, french fries, soft drink and dessert not …

New worlds aplenty…but still nowhere else to call home.  Astronomers have discovered nearly three dozen new planets outside our solar system, a few of them only several times larger than ours, yet none of them seem inhabitable.  So if they do find another Earth-like planet out there that’s ready to sustain life, who’s really going to want to go?

I have to admit to being a little proud of myself.  It feels like it’s been a while since I’ve even seriously considered any radical change in the look of this blog.  Granted, it took me a while to get there, because I have my fickle moments when it comes to “themes,” but this one is the one I like …

Over the weekend, I upgraded to Mac’s newest operating system, which they’ve nicknamed Snow Leopard.
 
 
I decided to include an image of a real Snow Leopard, in case you’ve never seen one.  They’re quite beautiful animals, as most big cats tend to be.  The four-legged snow leopard is smaller than most other big cats, and therein lies the tale:  Mac’s new …

In my ongoing effort to buy a new camera to replace the ailing one I’d had for years, I decided to check out Best Buy’s website. I found a different camera from the one I had looked at in Walmart, one I liked better, for a little more. I checked out Walmart and Target to see if they …

I had to buy a new iPhone.
Yes, I actually had to.  Because not buying a new one would have been more expensive.
On Saturday night, while I was in Columbia at the South Carolina Broadcasters Association STAR Awards, I noticed that the touch screen was not responsive in certain areas.  As I fooled around with the phone, trying to figure out …

You have to love those clever scientists.  They’re learning more and more about what makes us tick every day.
Now, they’ve learned how to turn our body’s own fat against us, to help make us lose weight in spite of ourselves.  The discovery is “brown fat,” which is what you get when you take regular fat cells and treat them with …

Nope, this has nothing to do with Michael Jackson.
I caught part of a special on the conspiracy theory about America’s moon landing which occurred 40 years ago yesterday.
(Or which was faked 40 years ago yesterday, depending on your own position.)
The section I caught focused on the photos taken on the surface of the moon and why many people think the …

So let’s suppose that you’ve downloaded lots of music from iTunes, synced it on your iPod or iPhone, and then you suddenly suffer a hard drive crash.  Your iTunes data is unrecoverable, and you can’t go from your iPod or iPhone to your iTunes library on your computer when you get the hard drive replaced.  (It would be too easy…that’s …

I had something occur the other night that could definitely fit into the category, “Computer User’s Worst Nightmare.”
When I went to my desktop computer and tried to do something, I found that it was off instead of asleep.  That in itself wasn’t so unusual: we’d had storms recently, and a brief power interruption.  But when I tried to turn the …

For a little while earlier this evening, I was afraid my trusty iPhone was gone forever.
It began at the grocery store, where I’d stopped to pick up a few things.  While in line, I checked my email with the phone.  That was the last place I remembered having it.
I had gotten home, walked Zoey outside, and was back inside unloading …