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Well, after Google, Yahoo, and MSN, what else is there? While the Big Three fight at each other’s throats over an increasingly smaller pile of scrap, there’s a whole world of unknown search engines out there just begging to be explored. Some are worse than others, some are specialized, but all of these will [...]
The initial argument for how the Internet was better for you than television went that TV dumps tons of mindless garbage on you, while the Internet, being interactive, gives the audience a chance to micromanage the content and hence improve it, resulting in a more cultured, thoughtful experience for all. Then Web 2.0 came [...]
We’re going to go out on a limb here and say that Photoshop is probably the best-known graphics editing program out there. But it’s a top-dollar item. And really, it isn’t the best solution for everybody, with its steep learning curve. There’s plenty of competitors to Adobe’s flagship product out there, and some of them [...]
We start with Moore’s Law, which states (roughly) that the number of transistors which can be placed on an integrated circuit doubles every two years. In other words, electronics component density will allow computers to double their efficiency to size ratio every two years. This means that devices can keep getting smaller, and that devices [...]
It’s not the manufacturers that drive the computer/tech industry any more. As soon as something new comes out, the techies are hacking away, trying to see just what they can make it do. I saw an article when the first iPods were rolling out about someone who made a mount out of RTV Rubber for [...]
Stunk and White’s “The Elements of Style” provides us with useful advice: “Omit needless words.” One needn’t be long-winded to compose a literary masterpiece; consider the beauty of a haiku poem, or the eloquent minimalism of a Chinese fortune cookie message. Micro-blogging is the spin-off from the blog revolution. It rode into the popular culture [...]
Once upon the 20th century, we had the phreakers. Phreakers were phone hackers; they’d use various equipment and techniques to rig the public phone system, getting free calls, snooping on private calls, even running their own private network, and generally abusing the telephone system for naughty stuff. Then along came the computer age proper, and [...]
Mobile gaming has taken off in recent years, getting more and more sophisticated. Games that used to be the exclusive domain of the console and desktop platforms have made their way onto mobiles, and the graphics get richer and more beautiful every year. For the adventure and role-playing gaming crowd, sometimes they ask for something [...]
Hello, new mobile phone user! Yes, that’s a very sleek model you have, there. I’m sure you’re just aching to show everybody all of the cool features it has. Yes, we can still hear you. Perhaps a little too well. Here’s a handy little “cheat sheet” for keeping your mobile phone – or “cell phone” [...]
As texting on mobile devices continues to take the world by storm, more and more people are confronted with the complications of using an interface to communicate. And of course, cursing themselves for the mistakes they make. Is this typed correctly so far? Let’s run a spellcheck: No, the word “texting” hasn’t made it into [...]
