The so-called “browser wars” can be a pain in the neck for good, honest people who just want to use the internet. And hey, those people are already using the internet – you’re probably one of them. Here are ten reasons why you absolutely should ignore those pompous freaks telling you to switch your browser for another (like me, for example).

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There’s something wrong with the DS, and I’m noticing it now more than ever, since ZU gives me a little bit more spending cash than I used to have (not that much more, mind you, since I have to send most of it off to pay the gargantuan debt I’m in from buying the place). My suspicions began with Phantom Hourglass, but having moved on to Mario Kart and Final Fantasy III, both games that were released prior to Phantom Hourglass I know, I’m noticing a distinct pattern: DS games lack music.

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There are several reasons why banning cell phones in schools won’t work in the future. Because my school recently set forth its cell phone policy both strictly and aimed directly at Apple’s iPhone, I must express some concerns – mostly centered on the single fact that the iPhone is a PDA, and thus such rules could be detrimental to those of us with PDA’s at school.

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I was able to drive to the mall today and go inside the local Apple Store to use one. I played with it for about forty-five minutes. There’s absolutely no shortage of iPhones, anywhere. So, consider this my mini-review.

I will be posting later today about ALL OF JUNE… everything you wanted to know about what happened during my June, but in a single post! You can’t wait? I can’t, either! But for now, be content with this little iPhone review.

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Let’s face it. A Palm Pilot just isn’t fun anymore. The company seems to be on its knees, begging for survival, and I, with my Palm TX, feel like I’m now forever trapped in a cage with this doomed company. After a year, the TX screen has broken, and I’m wary of sending the Palm back for repair. I don’t want a used TX in worse condition than my own. But then again, I don’t have the money to get out of Palm’s grasp.

The problem with watching this company wither away is that so many customers have stuck with the Palm standard for years, even a decade or more, and to see all that get washed down the drain is heartbreaking, if not only because all of our worldly mobile data is stored on these devices. The Palm Standard, as I will call it, does not cross over to Windows Mobile – we cannot get the same software, hotsync our existing data into a Pocket PC, and we can’t keep anything that we’ve kept on these devices for the last umpteen years. But it seems in time we’ll be forced to move. There’s no new handheld since 2005, and there doesn’t look to be one. The Lifedrive was recently taken off of the market. Palm, as far as we all know, is a dead company. It’s even losing the Smartphone race – it seems like Blackberry dominated long ago. Convergent devices aren’t specific to Palm anymore; the iPhone is probably the best recent example, and will more than likely sell far more than any Treo in history has.

What, then, is the incentive to buying from Palm? If it were a charity foundation, there might be a reason to buy one of these outdated devices; but since they are not, there is no reason to purchase a Palm Pilot anymore. And when students are bound on purchasing such a device, as I did, for schooling as other purposes, several students may fail to take into account the technology factor.

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It was a dark and stormy night. Jason Rappaport, headache medicine by his side, puts the DVD disc into the burner at 2am. He has planned this since the day before, although his headache has made him do it all a bit earlier than he wanted to. Despite this, he will overcome the pain of looking at a flickering screen in order to try out Microsoft’s latest public stable release of their new OS, Windows Vista.

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It’s not a recent discovery. Songbird’s proof-of-concept build has been around for a while. Maybe you use it. Maybe you even use it to listen to stuff on TJE. Maybe you don’t know what it is, and would like some info on what I’m talking about. If you’d like to know more, read on, reader, read on.

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