Jim Rapoza

Setting up a video monitoring system in your home, office or business can be a tedious and sometimes expensive task, often involving permanent server systems. Avvak’s Vue attempts to solve this problem through an inexpensive solution that uses small, easily mounted and deployed cameras, a central video router that requires no PC or server, and […]

eWEEK Labs at Demo: The Touch Book by Jim Rapoza Deceiving Look In its default configuration, the Touch Book looks like a standard generic netbook. Detachable However, users of the Touch Book can easily detach the main display and system guts from the keyboard. Now a Touch-Pad Separated from its keyboard, the Touch Book becomes […]

The second half of day one of DEMO 09 was shaping up to be a disappointment for me. A group of products focused on mobile devices and cell phones failed to generate much interest at all (sadly the coolest product in the bunch was Skout Out, a product for flirting via one’s cell phone), And […]

DEMO 09 launched this morning with Executive Producer Chris Shipley referring to 2009 and its downward spiraling economy as a “reset year.” Shipley didn’t shy away from the effect this economy is having on tech overall and the on the DEMO show itself, as she acknowledged the smaller size of this year’s show. Shipley, though, […]

For the upcoming Demo show, the key word is definitely change. The self-styled “launch pad for emerging technology” will see some of the most significant changes in its history. By far the biggest change is the departure of the show’s longtime executive producer, Chris Shipley. During this show, Shipley will be essentially passing the executive […]

Apple Safari 4 Beta a Major Step Forward, eWEEK Labs Finds ITunes-like Features The iTunes-like Cover Flow feature in Safari 4 provides a unique and intuitive interface for searching through Web sites in the browser history. Cover Flow The new Cover Flow feature in the Safari 4 beta greatly enhances browsing through bookmarks in the […]

Click here to see the slideshowsafari4beta.jpgWhen looking at the current version of the Apple Safari Web browser, the description that comes to mind is “stripped down.” The current Safari lacks many of the interface features found in competing browsers and seems to focus on simplicity and speed. But based on tests of the recently released […]

Ahhh. It’s just a few weeks until the start of spring. I can’t wait for all of the changes this brings, especially the return of all the green and growing things. Of course, other, less welcome things also seem to be returning with spring. Among these unwelcome things is the return of incredibly stupid, shortsighted […]

Oh no! Technology has taken over my life! There’s no escaping it! What am I to do? If these kinds of statements sound familiar to you, then you’ve probably been exposed to the frequent handwringing about the invasion of technology into our modern lives and how it’s turning everyone into anti-social introverts who constantly stare […]

Adobe Creative Suite 4 adds a revamped interface, improved component integration and advanced 3-D tools to the dominant graphics suite. And while some users will probably be able to get by just fine with the older versions, serious Web and rich media developers will find Creative Suite 4 to be a very worthwhile upgrade. If […]