Author: John Siano

John Siano is a writer on all things technology. Follow him on Twitter at John Siano, or send him an email.

Tech Gifts for a Very Happy Holiday Season

Dec 5 by John Siano | 1 comment

Soon we will all be starting holiday shopping, unless some of you out there are disgustingly organized.  We’ve compiled a list for tech lovers and tech muggles alike to help you find the best technology products to give as gifts this holiday season. Electronic Spy Camera Shirt We all know those more »

Make Your Facebook an Actual Book

Dec 4 by John Siano | add comment

Bouygues Telecom, a French mobile phone company, has released a great way to preserve digital memories. Instead of slapping pictures into a photo album with a few captions, the company thought it would be cool if they put your Facebook into a real book, which they called the Flashback book. With more »

Kinect is Used for Another Genius Purpose

Dec 1 by John Siano | 1 comment

If you have been following Techi, you probably have seen unusual uses for the Kinect. A gesture-controlled robot might have been something you looked into, or you might have found out how you could learn to dance using the Kinect. Now, some smart dude found out a way to use OpenKinect to communicate more »

What is Part of the iOS 4.2 Update?

Nov 27 by John Siano | 2 comments

Here’s a short list of what you can expect in the new iOS update for iPads, iPod Touches, and iPods if you are planning on downloading and installing it this weekend. Multitasking and Folders on iPad This shouldn’t be too surprising, as we knew it would come. Airprint Airprint enables you to print more »

OnLive Releases MicroConsole Which Allows Gaming Access Through Your TV

Nov 21 by John Siano | add comment

OnLive was a success with it’s cloud computing gaming idea, which many people thought wouldn’t work. They took another step tonight by releasing the MicroConsole. If you don’t know what OnLive is, its basically a gaming service that streams games over the Internet that don’t take up any hard drive space more »

Blekko Introduces Slashtags for Better Search Results

Nov 20 by John Siano | 2 comments

When I first heard of Blekko in my local news, I was pretty unimpressed. I already was using Google, the best search engine, and occasionally Bing, another solid contender. However, when I saw that Blekko utilized something called Slashtags to help narrow down your searches, I was pretty interested. more »

Games Streaming Service, OnLive, Gives You More Ways to Procrastinate

Nov 14 by John Siano | 3 comments

What happens when you want to take a break on your laptop or netbook? Don’t like cheap, free, Flash games from Miniclip and Addicting Games.com? The service OnLive, which streams games over your Internet service provider, gives you a nice list of games to play without taking up hard drive space. What most people were worried about is the lack of more »

Dance Central Lets You Bust Out Killer Dance Moves Without a Remote

Nov 13 by John Siano | add comment

We’re not gonna be foolin’ you with some controller waving and wagging. No, seriously, this is it. Real dancing with a console game. With the XBOX Kinect and the game Dance Central, this is possible. No longer are we going to be shaking a Wii remote in the direction that we’re supposed to, we’re actually going to more »

New Light Touch Brings a Touch Screen Without the Screen

Nov 13 by John Siano | add comment

This really is a real product, called the Light Touch, by Light Blue optics. Using an interactive projector, Windows CE and Adobe Flash Lite are streamed onto any surface where you want projected. Yes, that means no damaged screens when beer gets spilled on it. But wait, what can you actually expect do do on Windows CE and Adobe Flash more »

Wii Remote for Android Smartphones Lets You Use Wii Controller For Nintendo Classics On The Go

Nov 6 by John Siano | 1 comment

For all those Wii gamers out there, here’s something cool that you can use to play the Wii on the go. We hope you’re not so addicted that you actually need to do this, but if you are, there’s a cool way to do so. First, go to the Marketplace on your handset and download Android Wii Controller IME, more »