Degutis Insights

Note - you will need to install the Photosynth browser plug-in to see the images below. At this time you have to install the client and browser plug-in at the same time, which you can do by click on the below.
While I still can’t get Microsoft’s Photosynth to display the web images on my [...]

Apparently, I am not synthy enough, to borrow a phrase from Microsoft’s Photosynth beta.  Wanting to try Photosynth but using a Macbook Pro as my primary computer, which is not supported natively, I launched Vista Home Premium in a VMWare Fusion (v1) virtual machine to meet the requirements of running it in Windows.  After downloading [...]

CNET’s Rafe Needleman wrote a piece titled 10 Worst Web glitches of 2008 (so far) which many have used to point out why cloud computing won’t work.  I love the idea of using just about any computer to access my data.  I am also concerned about the cloud, not only because of reliability but also [...]

It arrived yesterday.
The packaging was awesome:

Not only did it continue the “skeleton look” into the packaging but it wasn’t the standard hermetically sealed plastic that requires sharp instruments to open.  The cardboard outer packaging is easily removed and the inner plactic packaging pops open with your figures. Nice.
My white iPhone before:

and then transformed:

It fits perfectly, [...]

I’m a beta-whore. I tried to categorize myself as a beta tester, an early adopter, and various other, nicer labels but my wife insists that “beta-whore” fits best.  I enjoy technology and feel my jack-of-all-trades skills can be beneficial in a beta test.  I sign up for many beta programs and devote more time to [...]

I’ve been one of the lucky ones. I’ve had pratically no problems with the 3G iPhone and only minor issues with a couple of apps since Day 1. Then I installed the iTunes 7.7.1 update when it came out. That’s when the troubles started. Luckily, the iPhone itself hasn’t been affected but the iPhone with [...]

One of the great features of Twitter is that you can access and post it in various ways: from the website, from a dedicated client on Mac or PC, from a cell phone via SMS or mobile app, etc.  Maybe someday we’ll see digital cameras with built-in Twitter access.  With all of these different access [...]

With Twitter continuing to be so unreliable, I think third party applications such as Twhirl, TweetDeck,  Twitterrific and possibly FriendFeed(?), just to name a few, need to add the option to keep a local copy of messages and your Following and Followers list. TweetDeck is already ahead of the game as it keep messages in [...]

I started using Twinkle, an iPhone app, on Thursday night (July 17th) and wrote this post about it. Here are my impressions and what I’ve learned about it after using it for few days.
Twinkle has it’s own network which it uses for its Nearby service. The Nearby service, also a section in the app, [...]

The other day Robert Scoble had a Qik video in which he interviewed on of the developers of Twinkle (web link, iTune link) a Twitter client for the iPhone. Yes, yet another Twitter client and yes for the iPhone. Twinkle caught my eye because it’s location-aware.
Unlike Twitterrific and Twittelator which can add a link to [...]