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 [...]
Well, we couldn’t resist. You have to do a post on your favorite games every now and again. It’s the only way we can play and still say we’re working. So here’s our favorite iGoogle home page gadgets from the games category. We’re not just picking them willy-nilly; we’re playing them first and thoroughly testing [...]
Now that “cloud” computing is here, everybody is heaving a sigh of relief that they don’t have to buy, download, or install as much software. We’ll always need some, but isn’t it becoming a nice bonus that you can offload a lot of tasks to the platform of the Internet itself, and use them just [...]
It must be tough to be Yahoo! They’re trying harder because they’re always number two – and constantly having to fight to keep from being bought out by Microsoft. That’s when they’re not trying to keep from being dismantled from the inside by billionaire investor and self-proclaimed fanatic Carl Icahn. And of course, the rest [...]
Hello everyone, and welcome to another episode of “tag that buzzword”. The biggest buzzword of 2008 is… “Cloud Computing”. You’ve been hearing about it, your boss is raving about it after a conversation with a sales rep, your engineers keep clucking it to each other, and all the bloggers won’t shut up about it. So, [...]
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 [...]
“The web as a platform”. That’s the mantra you’ve been hearing a lot about, applied to cloud computing. The idea behind cloud computing is basically to take all the computer that you have in front of you and condense it down to an operating system running a web browser, with everything else coming through the [...]
Yipe! The panic is spreading all over the web, both within and without the land of Oz. This is happening because the Australian government is considering wide-scale Internet filtering, with no way to opt-out, for all web users. And it has nearly everyone concerned in an uproar. Just a few clips about what we’re talking [...]
When most people think of “software”, they think of (a) Microsoft, (b) Adobe, and (c) EA, Blizzard, or whatever company makes their favorite games. And there, their mental list ends. The fact is, with the exception of those three categories (include other large application markers like Corel in the Adobe category) we just listed, just [...]
