Curtis Bridges

Bill Shrink put together this awesome info-graphic for the current batch of top smartphones on the market as of today. I find it interesting that the new AT&T minimum plan is the cheapest TCO of the bunch, which is my current plan. Note: This does not include Verizon's announcement of the Motorola Droid X, being announced very shortly. Find the best cell phone plans at BillShrink

As most people know, I'm fairly computer and operating system agnostic, I generally have three systems running, consisting of a Mac, a PC running Linux and a laptop running some version of Windows. The screenshot pictured here is from my Mac connecting to an SMB share on my home server. Notice the BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) pictured. Even more ironic is that this is actually my Ubuntu Linux machine, not an actual Windows box so BSOD will never actually happen. You just get the occasional kernel panics (ok, ok...rarely) or like what happened to me last week, a corrupted initramfs image via Update Manager in Ubuntu 10.10. Such are the hazards of playing with pre-released software...

AppleInsider | Inside Apple's new Xcode 4 development tool This is very exciting to me as I've always thought that Xcode has lagged behind popular free IDEs such as Eclipse or NetBeans , at least in its design and layout of the tool itself. It is ironic to me that, for a company that so prides itself with standards and even publishes a well known application style guide , would break all the rules when it comes to its very own IDE. This is the very tool that application developers use to create and should be the flagship in following Apple's design rules. And yet, it is one of the oldest, non-Apple applications you'll ever encounter. From a technical standpoint, the new tool is very exciting as a developer. The new compiler, llvm has hit the big time recently in newer Linux distributions and will finally be leveraged for OS X. I have yet to see a single bad comment regarding this compiler compared to gcc (ignore the complaints about people having to update their o...

It amazes me that when people think about public broadcasting, most don't think of leading edge technology and social media. Once you become a long time listener, you soon realize that perception couldn't be further from the truth. As I remember it, PBS was one of the first national stations to move to an all digital broadcast and NPR seems to be a leader in some of the best mobile apps for the iPhone/iPad/Android based devices. But above all else, you can tell there are plenty of people at NPR that have their finger on the pulse of the internet. I present to you: Who knew these people had ever heard of Auto-tune the News or Chatroulette or unboxing videos? Enjoy.    :-)

Current : $30/month for unlimited usage. DataPlus : $15/month for 200 megabytes. DataPro : $25/month for 2 gigabytes. Tethering : $20/month plus DataPro . Looks like I might be able to get away with the $15/month data plan just announced from AT&T Wireless. That's 200 mb/month which I only went over once since nearly all of my network usage tends to be through wifi - that's a decent savings from my current $30/month plan. The only problem with this is tethering; I've wanted to tether my laptop with my cell phone for as long as I can remember, it just makes sense to use your phone as your connection to the outside world for everything and it will be available on June 7th. The only problem is, it will cost $45/month for this feature and I'm just not willing to pay that much for it. Let's face it, serving data directly to the phone or using the phone as a proxy doesn't change AT&T's cost in the slightest. Google's Android announced offi...