Author: Kole McRae

Kole McRae is made from the parts of lesser writers. He was built to destroy Ty Dunitz but ended up just writing tech news and eating Ramen noodles all day. He writes for Techi and Geek Juice.

Is Illegal Filesharing Getting Less Popular?

Dec 12 by Kole McRae | 7 comments

My girlfriend used to ask me to download music all the time. She’d ask: “Can you get me the new Fall Out Boy album?” or “Can you download that classic Michael Jackson song I love so much?” But for some reason the requests have slowed to a halt. In fact she hasn’t asked me to illegally download more »

Intel to Malware: "You Shall not Pass!"

Sep 15 by Kole McRae | 7 comments

You may have heard that Intel bought McAfee a few weeks ago. Well that decision had a lot of people scratching their heads. Personally, I thought the CEO said ‘I got a virus, we should buy a copy of McAfee’ and an intern misheard him and bought the entire company instead. Intel decided to have a big press conference and try more »

Google Lets the Bed Bugs Bite

Sep 3 by Kole McRae | 4 comments

Your mother used to say it all the time. “Good night honey, don’t let the bed bugs bite!” And yet Google can’t handle that simple warning. “jeepers i am not immune from the bedbug epidemic. bedbugs have been found at work.” Horrible capitalization and spelling aside, that tweet was sent by a marketing employee at Google’s HQ in New York. more »

Tickets to Space now Available for $200,000

Aug 29 by Kole McRae | 3 comments

I was bored and decided to check out the Virgin Galactic site earlier. I ended up accidentally swallowing an entire ice cube and giving myself massive brain freeze when I noticed a little “book” option. For those not in the know, Virgin Galactic is the project started by Virgin CEO Richard Branson with the final more »

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 »

Samsung: Helping Overprotective Parents Become Even more Obsessive

Aug 19 by Kole McRae | 5 comments

This is how it works. The parent tells the kid “you must be home every day by 9pm.” The kid then says “Yes, mom.” The kid will proceed to come home at the designated time. Then he will do what all kids do. Wait until the coast is clear and sneak the hell out of there. Kids need freedom and parents more »

That $35 Tablet Might Actually be Real

Aug 16 by Kole McRae | 2 comments

A few weeks ago India’s Human Resource Development minister, Mr Kapil Sibal was throwing words around the tubes known as the internet about a planned $35 laptop built for students around the world. Yeah, right. Yeah right. THAT’S going to happen. Wow, it’s really hard to be sarcastic on the internet. more »

Microsoft Tech Advice: Hotmail is broken Sir, what do I do? Tell them to use Google Chrome!

Aug 10 by Kole McRae | 10 comments

Microsoft just made a dumb move. I decided to recreate how I think the conversation went between the tech guy and his boss. Tech guy: It seems a lot of customers are complaining about the new Hotmail. Bugs throughout the site, some of them can’t even log in. Boss: Fix it. Tech guy: That will take a more »

A Dating Site for Virgins. What's Next, a Dating Site for Unicorns?

Aug 9 by Kole McRae | 5 comments

The Internet is a beautiful place. Filled with almost limitless information on any topic imaginable, chances to connect with huge groups of people that have the same love for dressing up as animals that you have and now, a site just for virgins. Youandmearepure.com was made by Lety and Jose Colin and is not meant for geeks more »

Pack your Bags and Update that Passport, Europe Finally has a Universal Cell Phone Charger

Aug 5 by Kole McRae | 5 comments

This is what you do when you accidentally run over your cellphone charger with a lawnmower and have to call the girl of your dreams to reschedule your date that night but can’t because your cellphone is dead and shes in your contacts but you don’t remember her number so you can’t use a land line. (inhales) more »