I recently replaced the Mac Mini I use to host my web development with a PowerMac G4. (Story: the Mini was mine, a personal purchase I made to support my work on Scriblio and other WordPress-related projects, but recent changes in our network and firewall policy made the machine inaccessible from off-campus without using the [...]

Posted January 13, 2009 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: G4, hardware, mac, Mac Mini, macintosh, performance, PowerMac G4, PPC vs x86, x86. Be the first one.

I’ve been doing a lot of talking about the coming information age and how it depends on access technology that is as cheap and easy to use as our cell phones (and applications of it that are as appealing as people find their cell phones). But I’ve been slow to mention the MIT Media Lab’s [...]

Posted December 4, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: $100 laptop, digital divide, hardware, information age, laptop, Mary Lou Jepsen, media lab, mit, mit media lab, portable, portable computing, Technology, ubicomp, ubiquitous computing. 2 Comments.

I’m off visiting the good folks at Pepper today. I’ll update this post with photos as soon as they’re available, then look for a pair of posts about how the hardware/software works and what I’d like to do with it later.
Until then, here are some related posts: Ultra Portable Computing, Pepper Pad 2, and [...]

Posted July 22, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: computer, computing platform, hardware, internet, pepper, software, ultra portable, web, web computing. 4 Comments.