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 [...]
What with the concern over the proposed Internet filtering policy that is supposed to be put into place here in Australia, we thought this would be a good time to bring this subject up. Our point here is not to enable people to commit crimes, nor to say that they should commit crimes. Our [...]
For our American friends across the ditch, as well as various other parts of the world, Halloween is coming up. So what better time to examine the spooky remains of former technology greats, whose limbs are still twitching when we thought we’d shotgunned them to the ground? Here’s a list of technologies that we could [...]
A fun, satirical practice you’ve probably heard of is the Darwin Awards. These are handed out every year to individuals who have picked a spectacularly dumb way to eliminate themselves from the gene pool. In other words, people who did themselves in through their own lack of brainpower. But we’ve noticed that you could [...]
There’s nothing wrong with calling technical support for whatever product or device you have in front of you. You paid money for it, you expect it to work, you want it fixed. Even the geekiest of gadget geeks dial them up every now and then. But we’re posting this to remind consumers that there’s [...]
To continue our look at technology companies which, if they were people, could have won a Darwin Award, here’s the other five. These aren’t companies that just plain lost the game fair and square, even if they gave it their best shot. These are companies which should have been winners, but did a really great [...]
