Author: Kole McRae

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 music in months. Why? Has she simply stopped caring about music? Has she learned to do it on her own? Nope. She started using legal services. Grooveshark and YouTube My girlfriend discovered Grooveshark and YouTube. Two simple services that could spell the end for filesharing. Well, not the end, but a…

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 to explain themselves. Their answer isn’t as funny and kind of leaves us scratching our heads more. I don’t have lice, I swear! Here’s the explanation: Traditionally, security companies such as McAfee would take a defensive stance on things. For example, a new virus is made…

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. It seems the company has a small epidemic going on in their sales office there. The Twitter account that posted the message has been deleted, hopefully the poor guy didn’t get fired for it. A Google spokesperson has this to say on the matter: “Like several other…

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 hope of private space flight. The original plan was for tickets to be $200,000 and it seems the company plans on living up to that. God, my head still hurts as I type this, I’m going to send Richard Branson an invoice for causing me such pain and suffering. You can now book tickets by paying…

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 a dime. “Given that most of us don’t spend all day in front of our computers, we thought, ‘wouldn’t it be nice if you could call people directly on their phones?’” wrote software engineer Robin Schriebman…

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 don’t want to give it away. It seems Samsung is siding with the parents. They’re giving them access to a system (By GTX Corp) that scares me. In layman terms, your parents will be able to track every move you make via GPS. If you take your cellphone with you, they know where you are. Kind of like Foursquare on steroids….

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. At least that’s how the world reacted a few weeks ago, but due to a few recent developments, it looks like it may actually happen. Right now Microsoft and Google are in a war to get their operating system on the device. It currently runs Android but Microsoft wants a copy of Windows CE on there. There’s also…

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 few weeks, what do we do in the mean time. Boss: It works fine on Google’s Chrome, get them to use that. Tech guy: I don’t know about that, don’t you think we should focus on Internet Explorer? Boss: Who’s the boss? Tech guy: You are… Boss: Exactly. After thousands of complaints from customers over their…

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 who simply haven’t had sex ‘yet’ but for those who wish to save themselves for marriage. Here’s a quote from the couple: “We are still happily married despite that we entered marriage intimately inexperienced. But like everything in life it takes learning and we have been having…

As of next year, almost any cellphone will work with almost any charger. (In Europe)…