by Cate Young | February 22, 2010
(No Ratings Yet)There’s a new social media in town. Only you might not want to be so quick to sign up. ChatRoulette is a new website that randomly connects you to another one of its users via webcam or chat. It’s so simple in its objective that it’s a wonder that no one has come up with the [...](read more...)
by Andrea Abi-Karam | February 12, 2010
(+3)As if Google did not already fulfill all of my internet needs, Facebook/Twitter hybrid Google Buzz launched Tuesday, to everyone’s surprise. While waiting for my Mexican coffee to brew yesterday morning, I opened Gmail only to find a handful of “alerts.” At first I thought they were the junk emails that I get from Wordpress, [...](read more...)
by Colin Scully | February 8, 2010
(+2)My immediate reaction following the conclusion of Steve Jobs’ iPad keynote was a lack of any kind of reaction at all. It was more indifference. I needed to absorb what I had just been shown, but I wasn’t sure why. The second reaction was confusion, because I couldn’t exactly understand why I wasn’t feeling anything [...](read more...)
by Chuck Giroux | February 4, 2010 (No Ratings Yet)Newspapers are dead. That seems to be the prevailing consensus, and was my own up until very recently. Newspapers provide a very important service to the local community and society as a whole. No other medium provides truly in-depth reporting of local issues. I have had my Kindle since Christmas, and it has remained at [...](read more...)
by Colin Scully | January 27, 2010 (+5)Apple defied all expectations today by announcing a ten-inch iPhone rather than their expected Tablet computer, resulting in a massive embarrassment for news outlets, stock holders, and trending Twitter topics. The upgraded 3G touch screen will feature enhanced versions of all aspects of the iPhone, and include an “iBooks” app and its own version of iWork. One [...](read more...)
by Rachel Stine | January 22, 2010 (No Ratings Yet)The New York Times announced on Wednesday that it will begin charging frequent readers for access to its online articles on its website coming January 2011. Readers will be allotted a certain number of articles online per month for free, but will be charged a flat fee for unlimited access to The Times’ website once [...](read more...)
by Colin Scully | December 14, 2009 (No Ratings Yet)Like G-mail, Google Maps, Google Books, Google News, Google Earth, Google Chrome, and www.google.com, Google has just come out with something incredibly useful and very innovative that’s free, sending a big message to all other corporations out there that charge for those very things (Garmin learned the hard way). Google Wave, recently released into closed [...](read more...)
by Colin Scully | November 30, 2009 (No Ratings Yet)Recently, Apple’s oft-rumored Tablet device has done nothing but build up in hype, despite the fact that Apple has never confirmed a word of what’s been said. A recent article in CNN recently summed up essentially every reason there is to be excited about such a prospect, without offering up any new information on the [...](read more...)
by Lauren Hockenson | November 28, 2009 (No Ratings Yet)Christmas has its fair share of interesting yet impractical technological gifts. But, this one just might take the cake for Nuttiest Christmas Gift of 2009. And no, I don’t mean that inane toy hamster that has shot up 800% in price. I’m talking about the Yoostar. Ever see a movie and think to yourself, “Damn, if I [...](read more...)
by Colin Scully | November 16, 2009 (No Ratings Yet)“I think that a lot of people feel like the point of life is to be happy, or comfortable, or something like that, whereas I am highly suspicious of those things. All other things being equal I like being happy, but the problem is, all other things are not equal — probably happiness comes at [...](read more...)
