Archive for October, 2010

Twitter May Be Over Capacity, Again

Oct 22 by James Mowery | 1 comment

As much as I love Twitter, these issues over stability and scaling are really starting to get to me. For the past several days, the message “Loading Tweets seems to be taking awhile” has bombarded my screen. It’s not clear what the issue is, but Twitter obviously hasn’t yet fixed the leaky pipes. The worst thing more »

Glasses With HUDs Just Became A Little More Affordable

Oct 22 by James Mowery | 6 comments

Remember seeing those futuristic looking heads-up displays that soldiers and, well, Iron Man gets to have fun with? Well, Olympus and NTT Docomo are planning to bring something like that to consumers who have lost their way with AR Walker. It’s a pair of glasses, a smart phone, and a retina display more »

Shocker: Newspapers, Magazines Still Hate the Internet

Oct 22 by James Mowery | 2 comments

Games go social, computers go mobile, and communication goes online, but many newspapers and magazines still haven’t made the connection; Or as the old saying goes: “The more things change, the more they stay the same.” It hasn’t ever been more relevant than today when New Corp failed to convince more »

For the Pirate Who Has Everything

Oct 21 by Ty Dunitz | 3 comments

I’ve seen some pretty ballin’ casemods lately, not the least interesting of which was a Hackintosh-in-a-box that needed to be hotwired just to turn off. But where that boxmod got my propers for being ghetto, this one what I’m about to get drrty on gets them for being blinged to the nines. How much space does your desktop more »

FaceTime? More Like DISGRACE TIME.

Oct 21 by Ty Dunitz | 1 comment

I’m confident I’ve used that headline gag before. Whatever. If you’re used to the legend-status security of a Mac, better check your damn self – a security oversight in FaceTime fo Mac could land you with an enormous iTunes bill, if you’re not careful. Seems that in signing into FaceTime for Mac, more »

Why Apps Are (Sometimes) Better Than The Open Web

Oct 21 by Navneet Alang | add comment

Despite the fact that Wired Magazine has said that the web is dead, the browser-based internet is still thriving. And why shouldn’t it? The web is open, accessible to anyone with a browser and is also widely adaptable. A browser window is many things: a television screen, a newspaper, a chat window, a social network or a webcam more »

Y'know, I Bet Sports Programming Would Die Off Altogether With This Tech

Oct 21 by Ty Dunitz | add comment

Oh, Japan. You’ll never cease coming up with the best stuff. Why, just last night I was regaling a friend about ‘head bath’, which is a bathtub. For the top of your head. It’s a hat, that– no, really, this exists. Don’t give me that lip. I’m not taking any guff today. Not from you. Guff-free Thursdays more »

Apple Introduces Lion, new MacBook Air, more at Today's Apple Event

Oct 20 by Angela West | 1 comment

As usual, there were a few exciting things released by Apple today. Here are the main items: Apple Brings App Store to Mac, Gives Peek at Lion Apple gave a sneak peek of Mac OS X Lion, the eighth major release of the world’s most advanced operating system. Shipping next summer, Lion is inspired by more »

Mad Scientist Dooms Us All With Self-Replicating Lego Menace, Or Something

Oct 20 by Ty Dunitz | add comment

This is just downright threatening. Software engineer Will Gorman has seen fit to play god and create a robot out of Lego that can build things out of Lego. Really. The machine is essentially a robotic tank of Lego that is fed instructions from MLCad, a 3D modeling program. As of yet, it can only do more »

Facebook Will Help You Forget Lost Loves

Oct 20 by Ty Dunitz | add comment

Hey, you know Facebook’s ‘Photo Memories?’ Do you have the same problem I have, where every single one seems to be from the same album, featuring the same person (or two people)? What’s the deal with that – like, beyond an algorithm that determines with whom you interact most? Do you like that person more »

Marvel Heroes Get TRON'd The F*** Up

Oct 20 by Ty Dunitz | 1 comment

I hang out with an awful lot of comic book dorks, and many of them have been cowering in fear since Disney’s fateful acquisition of Marvel, wondering what impact The Mouse will have on their favourite superheroes. Generally, I’ve told them not to worry – Warner Bros has owned DC for, what, like, thirty more »

Microsoft’s Last Hope Is Too Little, Too Late For Consumers and Developers

Oct 20 by James Mowery | 7 comments

As much of an advocate I am for competition, I can’t help but laugh on the inside when I see yet another favorable impression of Windows Phone 7. I want to say great things about it. No, I really do! But I can’t! It’s because I know that this is a failure from the start. So before we get into detail about more »

Andy Rubin Hits Back At Apple, Shoots Himself In The Foot

Oct 19 by Toby Leftly | add comment

Andy Rubin took issue with Steve Jobs’ analysis of the openness of Google at Apple’s earnings release, and tweeted his opinion on the matter. Unfortunately, the tweet was either massively ironic, or completely misses the point of what Jobs was attempting to say. The tweet Rubin sent was a terminal more »

What If the iPad Magazine is Already Obsolete?

Oct 19 by Navneet Alang | 5 comments

Ever since the iPad was announced, there has been no end of talk about how it and other tablets represent the future of magazines. As it turns out, this is now partly true. Magazines, in the form of apps, are plentiful on the iPad, and if nothing else, they’re certainly a new way to experience a magazine. The 7″-9″ screen is more »