Archive for August, 2010

Google PWNS Bell, Verizon, Skype and Every Telephone Company

Aug 25 by Kole McRae | 6 comments

The senior editor for Techi just told me they put a bunch of money into Skype. So I want to take this once in a lifetime chance to laugh at my boss. HAHAHAHA! God, that felt good. Why is that funny? Because the folks up at Google HQ have just flicked the switch allowing us common folks to call people from our Gmail accounts. Using Gmail you can now call cellphones, home phones and bananaphones without paying more »

Vinyl+ Gives You One More Reason To Be a DJ

Aug 25 by Ty Dunitz | 2 comments

Man, there is just some really neat tech flying around today. Seriously, it’s a Wednesday to remember. Not many Wednesdays are worth remembering, so be thankful. Yeah, so the whole ‘throwing a projector onto a surface to interact with a physical object’ card has been totally played, but I’ve never more »

iPhone App Almost Thwarts Burglary, But Doesn't

Aug 25 by Ty Dunitz | add comment

There’s a hell of a lot of crappy iPhone apps. Indeed, I myself have found about four that were useful (that cost any amount of money), and even then, what qualifies as ‘useful’ is elastic – mostly, I’m just playing Lilt Line. But no one can say iCam never pulled its own weight. A Dallas man, visiting relatives in Conneticut, more »

Airport Security Goes All Total Recall

Aug 25 by Ty Dunitz | add comment

Continuing today’s completely unintentional theme of movie technologies given flesh (er… or the lack thereof, in this case) is a riff straight outta Total Recall. In an attempt to better identify terrorists and other baddies in airports, theme parks and other public places, the Wright State more »

You Thought Print Media Was Dead? Bro, You Haven't Read Successful Farming

Aug 25 by Ty Dunitz | add comment

Most publications are beginning to accept the death of print media. Magazines had a good, what, 100-year run or so? With all these iPads and Kindles and gadgets and things, it’s just time to move on. The future is paved in pixels. But not Successful Farming. Successful Farming is hardcore. Successful more »

iPhone Controlled 3D Display For.. Something

Aug 24 by Toby Leftly | add comment

Okay, I’ve watched the video three times now, and I still don’t entirely get what this thing is actually used for. But I’ve run it through the Techi.com buzzword checker, and the readings are off the charts. “3D”, “iPhone” and “hovering” are all included, plus the device was custom-built. Essentially more »

Iconic Visualization Of The Web's Top Million Sites

Aug 24 by Toby Leftly | 5 comments

You know those little icons you see in the tab of each website you visit? They’re called favicons, from ‘Favorite Icon’. Ever wondered what a million of those would look like? Furthermore, ever wondered what a million favicon icons would look like if sorted and ordered in size based upon popularity? more »

If The Rumors Are Real, Apple's iTV Will Be A Runaway Success

Aug 24 by Navneet Alang | 5 comments

Though the Apple rumor mill is always a fickle beast that’s more often wrong than not, when rumors from a variety of sources start to come together, you can be assured there’s something behind it. Now that we’ve been hearing about a revamped AppleTV – dubbed iTV – for some months now, it seems safe more »

Scammers Target iTunes and PayPal.. Maybe

Aug 24 by Toby Leftly | add comment

There has been some concern over the past few days about a potential security hole in iTunes, although reviews by Apple and PayPal show that no vulnerability exists. The problem actually relates to a good old fashioned phishing scam, a common, non-technical approach to ripping people off online. more »

John Mellencamp Hates The Internet!

Aug 24 by Toby Leftly | 3 comments

Shocking though it might be, Good Ole’ Boy John Mellencamp hates the internet, despises iPods and tortures kittens in his spare time. Okay, he doesn’t strictly despise iPods, but the kitten torturing part is absolute fact. In an interview with the Globe and Mail, Mellencamp waxes moronic on a number of subjects more »

iMac May Go MultiTouch

Aug 24 by Toby Leftly | 1 comment

It’s been talked about for a while. It’s been hypothesized, contemplated, dissected, discussed and dismissed, but it might actually see the light of day. Apple clearly feels pretty strongly that MultiTouch is the future of all computing, but the one area of desktop computing has so far remained more »

Toyotas Are Now Simply Too Quiet

Aug 24 by Toby Leftly | add comment

Toyota’s 2010 Prius is getting a new speaker system upgrade – under the hood, to ensure that the car makes enough noise to alert pedestrians to its presence. Apparently, the cars are now too quiet, and there is a general concern that this might pose a danger to those on foot. There’s no word yet on whether more »

You Can't Block the Zuck Rush

Aug 23 by Ty Dunitz | add comment

You’re obvs friends (the Facebook kind, obvs) with Mark Zuckerberg. Zuck’s a pretty fly dude. Runs a little internet startup or something. But sometimes, Zuck gets irritating. He’s always status updating, about everything. Those passive-agressive song lyrics directed at someone you don’t more »

Kraut Will Not Push Itself - New German Law Axes Facebook

Aug 23 by Ty Dunitz | 3 comments

This is entirely a new one. A new German law, penned by Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière, will potentially disallow employers from peeking at potential candidates on Facebook and other non-career based social networks. However, googling (and LinkedIn-ing) a candidate is still okay, provided – get more »