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eyeSight Wants You To Look Like an Android Wizard, Literally

eyeSight Wants You To Look Like an Android Wizard, Literally

Man, is it just me, or has gesture interface technology been a big thing lately, both Techi-side and abroad? Seems...

Safari 5 Makes Browsing Faster

Safari 5 Makes Browsing Faster

Apple has released it’s new version of Safari. The latest version of the popular web browser, Safari 5, boasts a...

Yahoo Bags Beckham for World Cup Coverage – This Is Good, Right?

Yahoo Bags Beckham for World Cup Coverage – This Is Good, Right?

Oh, Yahoo, you're this, you're that, you're everything and nothing. What are you up to now? Uh... David Beckham, you...

Modern Family Producer Reflects on The iPad Episode – ‘Too Far’…Um, Yeah?

Modern Family Producer Reflects on The iPad Episode – ‘Too Far’…Um, Yeah?

Long ago, in the before-times, far too far back to make any use of Techi's search bar, I fingered Big...

Bye Bye Birdie: Why Twitter is On the Outs

Bye Bye Birdie: Why Twitter is On the Outs

Like it or not, Twitter has become an unavoidable part of our online lives. Created by Jack Dorsey and Biz...

WWDC 2010 Kicks Off

WWDC 2010 Kicks Off

Today marks the start of WWDC 2010, the day when iPhone users begin to see their once beloved devices as...

9 Tech Inventions That Started it All – How Far We’ve Come

9 Tech Inventions That Started it All – How Far We’ve Come

In this day and age, it's often all too easy to complain about the problems plaguing social networking sites, overpriced...

No iPad Tethering For iPhone

No iPad Tethering For iPhone

AT&T's new 3G data plans have led some people to question whether this could mean tethering for iPads. The answer?...

Apple Advocates HTML5 With A Safari-Only Showcase

Apple Advocates HTML5 With A Safari-Only Showcase

Apple has decided that actions speak louder than words or Thoughts on Flash, and has published an HTML5 showcase, advocating...

How Google Can Save… Sony? Yes, Sony.

How Google Can Save… Sony? Yes, Sony.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYXSOaC1xv8 Though it may now be hard to remember, there was a time that Sony was the company that led...

Arduino, Wii, Korg, and iPad Come Together In the Name of Funk

Arduino, Wii, Korg, and iPad Come Together In the Name of Funk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WcF819PX9I You can thank YouTube user Denkitribe for the fattest beats you're going to hear today. Like, unless you listen...

Google Gives You the Option To Ditch the White Screen

Google Gives You the Option To Ditch the White Screen

A new feature for iGoogle has been implemented allowing users to change the background of their homepage and Google’s iconic...

Privacy Issues Get Zuckerberg All Moist

Privacy Issues Get Zuckerberg All Moist

Things were getting hot and sticky during Mark Zuckerberg's interview at D8. It could have been the lights just as...

Sorry RIAA, MPAA: The Pirate’s Boat Will Stay Afloat

Sorry RIAA, MPAA: The Pirate’s Boat Will Stay Afloat

The entertainment industry has embarked in an all-out war against piracy around the globe, with the hopes of scaring would-be...

Rdio: Because It’s Hard To Find a Name For a Music Startup That Isn’t Taken

Rdio: Because It’s Hard To Find a Name For a Music Startup That Isn’t Taken

The irony of this situation is not lost on me. The founders of Skype, your favourite instant messaging alternative, have...

iPad Used for Surgery in Japan Less Than a Week After Launch. Ouch.

iPad Used for Surgery in Japan Less Than a Week After Launch. Ouch.

Man, I always hate to come off as an Apple fanboy (that, when I'm not coming off as a cranky...

Magazines On Your iPad? It’ll cost ya

Magazines On Your iPad? It’ll cost ya

With the death of print in full swing with the popularity of e-books and e-newspapers on the rise, magazines will...

Emptying Your Wallets: This Free Ride We Enjoy Might End Early

Emptying Your Wallets: This Free Ride We Enjoy Might End Early

As the Internet becomes more prominent in people's lives, they are expecting more things for free, and companies are seemingly...

Just Like Minority Report: Introducing the G-Speak Spatial Operating Environment

Just Like Minority Report: Introducing the G-Speak Spatial Operating Environment

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/2229299[/vimeo] Remember Minority Report? If so, what about that scene where Tom Cruise is controlling a computer with hand movements...

Microsoft Puffs Its Chest In Response To Google

Microsoft Puffs Its Chest In Response To Google

Yesterday, the net was abuzz with rumours that Google was dropping Microsoft's Windows in favour of OSX and Linux, claiming...