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Unboxing Chumby One

Chumby Industries just released the successor to their widget-based Internet appliance, the Chumby One. The $99 device, is essentially a small touchscreen computer that grabs data from your WiFi connection and displays purpose-built widgets in a rotation. by Jason O'Grady

Tags: Keyboards, Wireless LANs, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Peripherals, Wireless And Mobility, Components, Chumby, One, Internet, Appliance, Widget, WiFi, Jason O'Grady

Image galleries 2009-11-18

Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Mid-range Apples that won't break the bank

If you've got a couple extra bucks in your budget this year there are a couple of middle priced (US$100-300) gifts that up that I want to recommend. If this isn't quite your price range, feel free to check out my list of Mac-related gift ideas under $100...

Tags: Bank, Apple iPhone, Battery, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone 3G, Chumby, Novatel USB727, FastMac U-Charge Battery Charger, 3G, Engineering, Wireless, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2008-11-24

Chumby - The bag (Gallery: Chumby)

Chumby - The bag (Gallery: Chumby)Chumby Who?Sorry guys, but this must be one of the worst articles I have seen. Lots and lots of pictures, but no text no story, except for a brief description under some of the pictures. Not only do I still not know what...

Tags: Chumby, Gallery

Discussion threads 2008-05-21

Get one of these: Chumby

Get one of these: Chumbythe iPhone/iPod Touch does and will do the same thingsI found that I've been using my iPod touch for the same purpose.RE: Get one of these: ChumbyWhy is that little cloud thing covering up all the widget info?

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Chumby

Discussion threads 2008-05-20

Get one of these: Chumby (updated)

So what is Chumby? It kind of defies description. When I first saw Chumby I thought that it was an alarm clock that displays that weather and news headlines â€" which it does â€" but it's really more than that. It's really a little WiFi connected Internet...

Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Computer, Battery, Productivity, Wireless LANs, Keyboards, Engineering, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Chumby, Hardware, Peripherals

Blog posts 2008-05-20

Gallery: Chumby

A gallery of photos of the Chumby Internet appliance. by Jason O'Grady

Tags: Jason O'Grady, Chumby, Internet, Appliance, WiFi, Widget, RSS

Image galleries 2008-05-19

The Chumby: A Wi-Fi-enabled alarm clock on steroids

The Chumby: A Wi-Fi-enabled alarm clock on steroidsYou forgot to mention the OS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!All of the coolest, greatest, best little new devices run Linux. WindowsCE is sooooo yesterday.Aren't there enough ways to separate fools and their money?;->RE: The Chumby: A Wi-Fi-enabled alarm clock on steroidsI'll keep my iPod Touch, thank you.The...

Tags: Channel management, WindowsCE, Chumby, Wi-Fi-enabled, Microsoft Windows NT

Discussion threads 2008-03-03

The Chumby: A Wi-Fi-enabled alarm clock on steroids

OK, I concede that the Chumby isn’t a necessity for anyone’s home network. But it’s one of those gadgets that’s so unusually fun and useful that you gotta have it. Of course, as is the case with many unusually fun devices, it’s wildly overpriced at $179.95. ...

Tags: Facebook, Movie, MySpace, Chumby, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Rik Fairlie

Blog posts 2008-03-03

Additional Resources

Gallery: Unboxing Chumby One

The Chumby One is out and I've posted a gallery of photos comparing the new Internet appliance to the original. by Jason D. O'Grady

Tags: Internet Appliance, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-11-18

Chumby One unboxing -- photos

See photos of the Chumby One internet media receiver as CNET's Donald Bell takes it out of its packaging. by CNET News.com

Tags: Photograph, Internet, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2009-11-12

Chumby One -- photos

Take a closer look at the Chumby One, the second generation of the small, internet-connected widget host/internet radio/alarm clock. by CNET News.com

Tags: Generation, Photograph, News.com, Internet, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2009-11-11

HP DreamScreen a wireless photo frame with Facebook, Pandora

I can buy a 15" LCD HDTV for $149 at CVS!I'm not sure what the marketeers were thinking!1-1/2 time the cost and I get what?Dead end productI'm having a hard time envisioning who would need such a device. The fact that it can not be used as a monitor makes...

Tags: Monitors & displays, Hewlett-Packard Co., HP DreamScreen, wireless photo, Pandora, Facebook, photograph, wireless

Discussion threads 2009-09-17

Energy monitoring (and control) in the palm of your hand

A while ago a friend showed me the Cent-a-Meter from Power2Save, it's a LCD that displays how much electricity your home is using in real time. Flip on the old plasma display and watch the Kw/h jump, you can even display the actual cost in dollars and cents. It's really cool...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Web, Monitoring, Web Interface, Integration, Energy Consumption, Lombard, Channel Management, Marketing, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-02-02

On stupid mascots and closed source browser plugins

Everyone's been harping on Google this week with the release of Chrome, so I thought I would be different -- today I'm going to give Adobe some love. Because I bet they feel left out. Adobe's Flash and Acrobat Reader plugins are some...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Web Browser Plug-in, Adobe Acrobat, Web Browser, Plug-in, Flash, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-09-03

Enterprise 2.0: my week ahead

Following the pre-show banter, most of which I missed, I'm sensing Enterprise 2.0 will be a LOT of fun. Here is my itinerary/day plan: Sunday today - sleepless night, pre-post blog entries, pack bag Monday - depart home 7.15am CET, drive to Granada-Jaen airport,...

Tags: Blog, Enterprise 2.0, Conference, Session, Blogging, Internet, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-06-08

News to know: Hactivists; XO-2 laptop; HP; Virtualization

Notable headlines: Dancho Danchev: Pro-Serbian hacktivists attacking Albanian web sites Over 1.5 million pages affected by the recent SQL injection attacks DoS Attacks Using SQL Wildcards Revealed Ryan Naraine: Secunia finds 'highly critical' Foxit Reader Flaw Are you wary of...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Hewlett-Packard Co., Virtualization, Network, Microsoft Corp., Twitter, Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Sales Strategy, Ultramobile PCs (UMPCs), Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Sales Force Management, Sales, Tablets, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Emerging Technologies, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software

Blog posts 2008-05-21

How to get more from your WiFi digital photo frame

I don't know why anyone would buy a digital photo frame without WiFi uploading capabilities (well, I suppose if they didn't have a WiFi network...). Remotely uploading photos to a frame is such a brilliant way of sharing photos with far-away friends and family, especially the...

Tags: Digital Photograph, Wi-Fi, Photograph, FrameChannel, Janice Chen

Blog posts 2008-04-09

News to know: IE 8; eBay security; Microhoo; Favorite Windows programs; Apple

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft caves: 'Super-standards' mode to become IE 8 default. Microsoft's IE blog Microsoft, Nokia to port Silverlight to Symbian phones Nate McFeters: eBay Red Team Event - Creating Security Awareness and Sharing Strategies Ed Bott's 10 Favorite...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Security, Apple Inc., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., eBay Inc., Microsoft Windows, Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-03-04

News to know: Microsoft interoperability; Bypassing FileVault; Woz; Black Hat; More benchmarks

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft pledges interoperability--again Reading the fine print on Microsoft’s new open-source promises Larry Dignan: Microsoft’s real game: Open interoperability protects its stack Dana Gardner: Microsoft on open APIs: New tune or blowing more smoke? Dana Blankenhorn:...

Tags: Black Hat, Interoperability, Disk, Dana Blankenhorn, Apple MacBook, Microsoft Corp., Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-02-22

Check out episode 1 of RIA Weekly

This week I recorded the inaugural episode episode link of a podcast I'll be doing with Michael Coté from Redmonk. In Coté's words, there's not a centralized area to go for weekly news, so that's the theme for the podcast. I'm going to be taking stuff from my shared items...

Tags: Podcast, Rich Internet Application, Episode, Podcasts, Internet, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2007-11-21