Photoshop World Las Vegas
We are in Las Vegas for Photoshop World – The Evolution Begins 2008 at the Mandalay Bay – Throughout the next couple of days we will provide photos, thoughts and interviews from the Expo Center and Event.
Andy
Thanks for your thoughts
For those that listen to the weekly radio show, you know over the last few months I had made quite a few trips to California to visit my Mom and stepdad Micheal who was diagnosed with Cancer about a year ago. Back in May, the cancer spread to his spine leaving him unable to walk. My mom went with the doctors and put him in a rehab facility while he underwent radiation therapy to weed out and kill the cancer. Michael was a former soldier and served the country in Korea and Vietnam. The battle he was facing was unlike the ones he had ever seen before.
Michael wanted to come home and be in the house where he and my mom had led a happy and fun life for the past 18 years.
Mom made the arrangements, and brought Michael came home. He was happy to see the bird and turtle and just as happy to look out the window and see his garden that he had not been able to tend to but provided him some comfort. Michael was happy to see the neighbors who stopped by and checked on him and my mom. He was just happy to be home.
Last night at about 3:30am, peacefully in his sleep, he went home again.
Your wishes during the last year have meant alot to my mom, to Michael and our family. He will be laid to rest in the Veterans Cemetary in Riverside.
To all Veterans, thank you and to those with a loved one facing this battle, our thoughts are with you.
Andy
Text Messaging the VP Running Mate Announcement
A First for a Presidential Campaign as the Democratic Running mate to the U.S. Senator Barack Obama was announced via an SMS Text Message.
Sprint sent out a press release this morning which stated traffic rose 255 percent following the announcement which was texted shortly after 3am EST.
The text was read as:
Barack has chosen Senator Joe Biden to be our VP nominee. Watch the first Obama-Biden rally live at 3pm ET on www.barackobama.com Spread the word!
Just how widely used is text messaging? More than 48 billion text messages were sent each month in the US as of Dec 2007 according to CTIA- The Wireless Association.
Sprint hasn’t played favorites here and has also stated that they would be standing by to share the news of U.S. Sen. John McCains pick later this month.
It’s impressive that we’ve come to sending a Text Message to announce a Running Mate, Let’s not picture Sen Obama sending this text message while driving. It’s become standard place to send Text Messages, I would have been even more impressed had he twittered it!
Wallace Wang Audio interview at TechtalkRadio
We talked with Wallace Wang today about his most recent book, My New Mac. 52 different task on working around the Mac are laid out in this easy to read Task Book. Listen in to why many technology users may have started to shift to the Mac and what drove the author to move in that direction.
It’s all up on the Website at http://www.techtalkradio.com/books/mynewmac.html
Xplore Technologies iX104C4 on TechtalkRadio
We talked today with Patrick Gray of Xplore Technology on the new iX104C4 Rugged Tablet for the Computer User looking for a Rugged Portable Solution. The device builds on the success of the previous iX104C3 and doubles the memory capacity and triples the storage while delivering performance in a Strong Sturdy form factor which, according to the company, can handle a 4 foot drop onto Concrete!
Tune in to hear more about the iX104C4 on TechtalkRadio
http://www.techtalkradio.com/hardware/xplore.html