Author: Ty Dunitz

No one ever knocked Google for not keeping up to date. Despite only indexing, like, one a month, I’ve always been pretty impressed with how well Google organizes the web. But what do I know? Apparently, that’s not nearly fast enough. To keep up with the modern tide of user content (I guess ‘tsunami’ is more appropriate), Google has rolled out Caffeine, a new indexing system which updates layers of content continually, resulting in an up-to-the-minute web. “Our old index had several layers, some of which were refreshed at a faster rate than others; the main layer would update every couple of weeks,”…

CEOs of EA and Capcom respectively, John Riccitiello and Haruhiro Tsujimoto recently whispered some sweet nothings about Nintendo’s upcoming 3DS in interviews, giving us clues to the future of handheld gaming. “I will tell you, I’ve seen it; it’s cool,” teased Riccitiello, probably knowing full well he’ll be black-bagged and never seen again if he says anything useful before Nintendo’s E3 presentation. Yeah, we know it’s gonna be cool, John, what else? Tsujimoto, however, has been a bit more bold. “Of course, it allows us to do things that couldn’t be done until now, so the development…

So I was in Best Buy yesterday, iPadding in Cantonese because I like a challenge, when I thought to myself ‘Gee, this form factor is so ugly. Can we get back to basics for a minute?’ Well, yes. Yes we can. SiteHirac presents an iPad case for the gentleman-or-woman who wants to take it back to the day of beautiful, age-stained yellow computer casings – the day of the Mac Classic. And as far as I can tell, this is an actual Macintosh Classic, gutted and retooled into the cutest lil’ iPad holder you’ve ever seen. The lack of home button functionality is disturbing, but nothing a solid half-inch drill bit can’t…

On Monday, Techi’s Tim Duffy (actually, Tim, can I call you Tim? I’ve never actually asked) predicted Twitter’s eventual downfall, igniting a firestorm of feedback both for and against the social networking darling. Now, upon reading Tim’s post, I threw my head back and laughed defiantly. I love Twitter. I ‘get’ Twitter. Twitter is like a really obscure inside joke; unless you already know what it is, you’re going to think unfounded things like it’s ‘stupid’ and ‘dying’. Am I in denial? Maybe, but I’m certainly not alone. Check it: in the month of May, in the year two thousand and ten, Twitter has…

I haven’t seen synchronization of this magnitude since that whole Dark Side of Oz business. The Death Star analogy is astonishingly poignant, depending on your opinion of Apple’s tablet. I suppose I need an obligatory Star Wars quote, dont I? Um… “Just get in, I don’t care what you smell!”…

Man, is it just me, or has gesture interface technology been a big thing lately, both Techi-side and abroad? Seems everywhere I look, tech manufacturers hither and yon are preparing some sort of gestural dealie. While that’s cool and all, and I like the idea of gesture being a possible future, this one in particular seems a little extraneous. This is eyeSight, and it has a really uninspired name. Nevertheless, eyeSight wants to be an interaction solution for Android-based devices. It’s a pretty simple concept: you wave your hand in front of your device, and the camera interprets your movements…

Heard of Pad Racer? If you’re busy sensually yet inadvertently rubbing your iPad against your shirtless self, you probably have. Once or twice. For the rest of you, Pad Racer is essentially slot car racing for Apple hardware. Using your iPhone/iPod Touch, you control a tiny stain of pixels – er, ‘car’ around a track displayed on your iPad. The play control looks pretty good, and I can imagine multiplayer matches are totally fun fun super lucky best time. But why am I writing about a single iPad app? Well, the latest version of Pad Racer lets you set two iPads next to each other, allowing for double the…

Oh, Yahoo, you’re this, you’re that, you’re everything and nothing. What are you up to now? Uh… David Beckham, you say? Then again, I guess the World Cup starts in… Oh, Jesus, three days?! The hell have I been? I guess Yahoo’s not exactly got a bad idea recruiting Beckham. But why? Beckham’s part of Yahoo’s latest effort to… uh… be, I suppose, and will be serving up exclusive World Cup and football content for 2010-2011, pimping Yahoo’s products all the while. The goal (ahem, goooooooooooal) of the campaign is “to drive more people to search, use and talk about Yahoo! through exciting and…

Long ago, in the before-times, far too far back to make any use of Techi’s search bar, I fingered Big Steve for that episode of Modern Family. You know the one, yeah? The iPad one. I’d link you, but seriously, it was awhile ago. I had a video and everything. Actually, you know what? I like you – I’ll manually root through some old posts and find it while writing this one. Anyway, while you sit back, and scratch your chin thoughtfully, and think ‘Gee, Ty’s such a swell guy’ – and truth be told, I am – I may as well tell you what’s up. Awhile ago, ABC aired an episode of Modern Family that was, for all intents and purposes,…

You can thank YouTube user Denkitribe for the fattest beats you’re going to hear today. Like, unless you listen to fat beats for a living. Then there’s every chance you’ll hear something fatter. Either way, this still rules. Denki has taken an Arduino unit (of course he has, hasn’t he), a Wii nunchuk, an iPad running Korg’s iELECTRIBE app, and has used them all to totally rock the brand new Korg Monotron. I’m not even gonna bother talking much about this. Just hit play and have a light switch rave as some of the best recent technologies come together in one supercollision of rad. [Via SlashGear]…