I Know It When I See It - a Review

From Triond:
I know it when I see it, is a fictional tale by Joh Guaspnari and tells the story of Punctuation Inc. The first company to produce punctuation marks, but as the new Process Inc starts to gain market share the boss gets worried, and tries to fix the problem.

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Making your resume stand out with QR Codes

Here's an innovative idea for your resume. More and more I see QR Codes on billboards, advertisments, and everything in between.

So why not put a QR Code on your resume, when you print it off and give it to tech savy folks they can scan the code with their phone or other mobile devices and learn even more information about you, save your contact info to their mobile phone or setup an appointment in just a few short clicks.

I got the idea from this article over on Microsoft - Make your resume stand out with Tag.. Read More...

The ultimate remote control

If there is one thing that I can never get enough of it is remote controls. I must have 10 different remotes just to operate my downstairs entertainment system, and of those ten I can never seem to find the "right" one for whatever I'm trying to do. Between my surround sound, my LCD tv, my blue ray player, my DVD player, all of which seem to have obscure remote codes that don't seem to be easily programmable into the "all-in-one" style remotes.

To help get rid of all of this remote nightmare I used to have some nice software on my laptop, that listed all of the various devices. It was simple and quick (and a laptop is much easier to find then a remote). But very few laptops today seem to have infrared ports in them anymore.

So I was excited when I came across this YouTube video of the Sony Tablet S.



The tablet is much easier to hold and carry then my old laptop and finally includes an infrared port (and software) to control all of my devices. Plus it's still big enough for me to find an unlikely to fall between the cushions of my couch!

Perhaps I will even be able to use it when out and about to change the channel at restaurants to something I want to watch!

Of course at the suggested price of $499 you can bet I'll be using it a lot more then just as a fancy remote control. Sony Canada is expected to be selling the tablet this September.