Archive for July, 2010

Twenty Billion Tweets Can't Be Wrong

Jul 31 by Ty Dunitz | 3 comments

About an hour ago, Twitter just hit the big two-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh. For those of you who would rather not be confused, that’s twenty-effing-billion, and scientifically speaking, that’s a hell of a freaking crap ton of dadgum tweets. The milestone has been hit a mere two months after more »

Google Wants To Know Where You At

Jul 31 by Ty Dunitz | 1 comment

As if Google didn’t know enough about you (and serve up ads accordingly), Google AdWords is now offering a feature that allows advertisers to beam location-based ads right to your smartphone. Advertisers can now select a “location extension” that will display based on a user’s GPS coordinates. The user more »

Video Artist Fills His Scanner With Ants - What Are You Doing With YOUR Weekend?

Jul 31 by Ty Dunitz | add comment

Straight outta the wish-I’d-thought-of-that department comes François Vautier, a video artist unafraid to sully precious technology with soil and insects. After filling his scanner with ants, Vautier proceeded to scan the colony each week for five years. The result is a fascinating time-lapsed more »

48ers.com New Real Time Social Search Engine

Jul 30 by Angela West | 1 comment

There are a lot of these real time social search engines cropping up to unseat the Scooplers and OneRiots of the world, and many of them just don’t do a good job. 48ers.com, however, actually manages to both search in real time (which many of them actually don’t) and organize the results into a cohesive whole more »

Weather Now Available in Google Earth

Jul 30 by Angela West | 6 comments

Weather-obsessed people like pilots and surf bums will now be able to see the latest weather maps on Google Earth. In order to see it, enable the clouds layer, and zoom to the spot that you want to see (or do that in reverse order, it doesn’t matter). Precipitation data is only available in areas of North America more »

iPhone Captain's Log App, Stardate July 30 2010

Jul 30 by Angela West | 1 comment

Both closeted and outed Star Trek geeks can now enjoy the Star Trek Captain’s Log app for the iPhone 4. The new app from Paramount integrates with Google Maps and Facebook to allow you to add photos, GPS mapping locations of your travels, and to either share your logs with other Captains or keep them private. Access to your more »

Reddit Introduces Gold Service to Keep Site Running Smoothly

Jul 30 by Angela West | 1 comment

If you love Reddit as much as Reddit users love Reddit, the thought of the popular social bookmarking site shutting down makes you scream “Oh Noes!” inwardly. Reddit is hoping to translate this same love into cash to keep the site humming along smoothly rather than crashing every time a new meme more »

RIM Planning to Release iPad Competitor Blackpad in November

Jul 30 by Angela West | 2 comments

Blackberry is hoping to get all up in the iPad’s business with a new tablet device being released in November, claim a fuzzy source of “two people familiar with RIM’s plans”. The device will be roughly the same dimensions as the current iPad. The name of the device will be Blackpad, and will feature a full touchscreen and a slideout QWERTY keyboard more »

Five Websites That Will Make You A Better, Smarter Geek

Jul 30 by Navneet Alang | 7 comments

Let’s face it, internet chums. For all the wealth of incredible, mind-expanding content there is online, we spend a lot of our time looking at junk. Celebrity gossip. Mindless updates about that new camera that now has 20x optical zoom. Video clips of people embarrassing themselves. There’s more »

The Myth and Reality of Kevin Mitnick

Jul 29 by Techi Team | 1 comment

Kevin Mitnick became notorious for his use of social engineering – the act of manipulating people into divulging information, rather than breaking in or using technical cracking techniques used to commit identity theft, steal credit card information and so on. To clarify the myth and the reality more »

When Panasonic Gets Creative, It Doesn't Hit A Sour Note

Jul 29 by Ty Dunitz | 4 comments

Today is a great day for tech and design coming together. This one’s a bit of advertising. You’re already looking at it, so I may as well just ask outright: is this not the most clever packaging for a pair of earphones you’ve ever seen? If you answer no, you are clearly a soulless husk of a person, content more »

When Digital Distribution Becomes Art

Jul 29 by Ty Dunitz | 3 comments

You know what’s too cool? This is. In an exploration of digital content delivery, record label Ghostly International is debuting a new label format: the Totem. Looking more like an otherworldly obelisk, this monolithic object serves as much more than a simple sculptural keepsake. Each Totem is embossed with its own three-character more »

Facebook Questions Launches, Tide of Ignorance Begins

Jul 29 by Ty Dunitz | 2 comments

If you’ve ever used Yahoo Answers, you’re painfully aware of the human wastelands that populate the internet, and the unfortunate questions they’re prone to ask. They make you facepalm. Sometimes groan a little. Occasionally, you’ll do that thing where you’re suddenly aware of your posture, and will more »

DisgraceTime - Adult Industry Has Eyes For iPhone 4

Jul 29 by Ty Dunitz | 6 comments

I have a feeling Apple’s FaceTime is going to play out just fine. How can I be sure? Because now, the adult industry is on board. Steve’s gonna be so pissed. Like it or not, the adult industry has always been a (and arguably the) major player in deciding which entertainment technologies live, and which more »