brijmin on Tech

I have my home desktop set up with applications for a variety of tasks, but when traveling, at work or at a friend’s house (I’m often de facto IT for friends and family) I never seem to have the tools I need. I used to carry around a book of CDs with various applications, but [...]

The development house Big In Japan has just rolled out its 3.5 update to its ShopSavvy Android app. ShopSavvy is the useful app that allows you to use an Android phone’s camera to scan barcodes and get pricing information. More importantly, it allows you to compare prices of that item to prices on the web, [...]

Internet audience measurement company comScore has released a preliminary study of the performance of Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing, during the first week of its public launch.

Cc:Betty, a free service that helps organize group email threads, today has secured $1.5 million in seed led by Venrock with investors Seraph Group and Hillsven participating. The company was incubated in Venrock’s offices and officially launched at DEMO in March.

Did you set your name space on facebook? http://www.facebook.com/brijmin/ Yeah sure its a little vain but easier to find and remember your facbook page. Facebook finally got on board with MySpace http://www.myspace.com/brijmin/
Go claim your name now.

True, you could always swing for one of those MicroSD-to-SD adapter cards, but there are a whole lot of systems, and laptops especially, that don’t have card readers. And SD cards are prone to breakage and contact damage, depending on what kind of beating your gear takes. Brando’s reader actually fits the MicroSD card inside [...]

Today’s Wolfram|Alpha is the first step in an ambitious, long-term project to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone. You enter your question or calculation, and Wolfram|Alpha uses its built-in algorithms and growing collection of data to compute the answer.

Still haven’t found a USB drive small enough for your needs? Then you might want to consider EagleTec’s new Nano flash drive now available from the ever dependable folks at Brando, which measures an impossibly tiny 19 x 15 x 6 mm and weighs in at a mere three grams.

You’re trying to check for important messages on your iPhone, Android, or other Java-friendly phone. The thread about the next book club meeting has devolved into a Phillip Roth argument that’s spawning 8 new pundi-mails per hour. What to do?

In a move to extend the reach of its Windows Live Messenger chat service, Microsoft today released some tools to add chat to Websites.