After recently getting my direct fulfillment order filled by the wonderful people at AT&T and Apple, I have begun to fully immerse myself into the world of mobile computing. I figure for all the money an iPhone and subsequent AT&T plan cost, I ought to ensure that I maximize all the value I can out of this phone. With that goal in mind, I decided to take a go at blogging with the iPhone. Luckily for me, the App Store has ... Read More

What Is Twitter? "Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?" For the longest time, I thought it had no purpose. But once you start using it and see the community...you'll just get it. Still not convinced? Watch the video below. Follow Me on Twitter If you're interested in following my thoughts, I'm at twitter.com/IanMikutel Follow The Wiire on Twitter I've also created a Twitter account for ... Read More

Flickr, the popular photo sharing website home to over 2 billion images, has finally launched video on Flickr. The catch? Videos can be no longer than 90 seconds in length and 150mb in size. But have no fear, because Flickr has actually done this for good reason. Brilliant Concept - "Slices of Life" "90 Seconds? While this might seem like an arbitrary limit, we thought long and hard about how video would complement the flickrverse. If you’ve memorized the Community ... Read More

Whenever hearing about the possibility of time travel, I've always been quick to draw myself into discussion about it. I've often pondered whether it truly is possible to travel through time--whether it be forwards or backwards. The feat of doing so is intriguing enough to spark much debate, as science fiction movies and books have shown over the years. But in the information age in which we live in, the 21st century, the most technologically advanced time in human civilization to date, what ... Read More

Dean Kamen, the inventor most known for his self-balancing human transporter, the Segway, has just unveiled a new invention that he has reportedly been working on for five years. Named The Slingshot, it is a vapor compression distiller, and while the idea is not new, doing it in such an efficient (using 2% of the power of convention distillers) and mass produced way certainly is. Wired Science did an excellent job of researching and compiling a list of what is currently known about ... Read More

If you haven't heard of TED before, let this post intrigue you. TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) was founded in 1984 with the goal of bringing together people from all three of those fields to share their ideas with each other. 24 years later, TED has broadened its scope to include even more people in the discussion, becoming one of the world's premiere conferences. In the clip I'm featuring today, New York Times columnist David Pogue gives a great talk on what ... Read More