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About Kevin Ivanca
Posts by Kevin Ivanca
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Use Bubbles and Your Android Phone to Create Memorable Phone Calls
19 Jan 2012 by Kevin Ivanca
In a world filled with short attention spans and thinning short-term memories, it can sometimes be difficult to remember to mentioning important topics while making a phone call. Heck, give a person 30 minutes of phone conversation to wander, and their mind will stray further than the island of Lilliput (hint: it’s a fictitious location from a book). Well I don’t know about you, but ...
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The Asus Eee Slate with Windows 7: A Tablet Computer on Steroids
28 Dec 2011 by Kevin Ivanca / 2 Comments
I had been lusting for a tablet computer for quite some time. And no, I didn’t want one of those tiny, feature-limited Apple or Android tablets with a 6” screen and far too many smartphone similarities. I wanted the real deal: a 12”- 14” portable computer with full touch capabilities, an absurd amount of RAM and CPU power, and an operating system that can do just about anything. That...
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Holiday Gift Guide 2011: Build a Gaming PC Edition
19 Dec 2011 by Kevin Ivanca
This year I decided to use my holiday wish-list to build an entire desktop PC. I mean, as long as a majority of the parts needed to build a high performance machine are gifted to me over the holidays, in the end all of them can be combined for the common goal of playing Skyrim for 100+ hours with the maximum refresh rate and graphics settings. So from one PC gamer to another, here are a few essent...
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How to make your Windows tablet look like Windows Phone 7
09 Dec 2011 by Kevin Ivanca / 1 Comment
I recently noticed that when I told people I bought an ASUS EP121 Eee Slate tablet PC with Windows 7, they usually asked me “What do you do for easy access to nifty apps and news and stuff?” And sadly, it was a question I could not easily answer without adding sarcasm or criticism (a very tough thing to do, mind you). In all fairness, I did agree that my overpowered, $1,200 multi-touch tablet ...
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Make your apartment search easier with Padmapper
16 Nov 2011 by Kevin Ivanca
Finding an apartment on the internet is equivalent to hopping into a tractor tire and being rolled down a hill. You start at the top with high hopes: using the power of the internet for finding desirable rental properties and listings. From there, though, the process spirals downward. Apartment searching sites are hard to navigate, the contact information for the apartments isn’t always up t...
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A Windows Phone and My Mother: A Perfect Match?
14 Oct 2011 by Kevin Ivanca / 2 Comments
It’s that time again. Yep, I am of course talking about contract renewal day for the family cellphone plan. For me and my sister, the phone choices are pretty obvious (an Android for me and an iPhone for her). But once mom starts talking smartphone, the whole cellular arena starts to get a little grey. Now granted, my mother is already at an average level of technological intelligence. She d...
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A Chrome Experiment that (Literally) Shakes up the Google Homepage
06 Sep 2011 by Kevin Ivanca / 1 Comment
Give people the option to work with Google Chrome using JavaScript, HTML5, and other browser tools, and they’ll start designing some pretty creative things. For example: Is that the Google homepage? It certainly appears that way. But something is wrong. Did I break it? Sweet mercy…the Google homepage has developed its own gravitational force. The second you hover over the page...
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Embrace Better Predictive Typing with SwiftKey X for Android
29 Jul 2011 by Kevin Ivanca
It happens millions of times a day, and most people don’t even know its a problem: The issue of auto-correction errors while typing on a mobile smartphone. At first, one sees the errors and manually uses the backspace to fix it. But sooner or later those fingers get quick on that virtual keyboard, and next thing you know a text or tweet goes out poorly corrected, fragmented, and, in some rar...
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Google Releases New Themes for Gmail and Google Calendar
01 Jul 2011 by Kevin Ivanca / 2 Comments
Dear people living under rocks this past week: If you haven’t noticed, Google has decided to tackle bold new things recently, with widespread success. First, they came out with Google+, a type of digital, communal gathering site that allows one to keep up with friends and collaborate with them (Which I am sure that Techerator will summarize into article form). And that was pretty cool. But t...
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For Your Consideration: Simple Desktop Wallpapers
02 Jun 2011 by Kevin Ivanca / 1 Comment
In the digital workplace, it is common for the worker to be given a personal computing machine for performing productive work. As a matter of fact, it is almost guaranteed that if one works in the corporate environment, they will be staring at a company owned monitor being operated by a company owned mouse and keyboard. Now, I know what you are thinking: all this talk of corporate ownership may ...
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