Archive for the ‘Computers’ Category
Pirate ISP: Anon For All
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
The Swedish Pirate Party (Piratpartiet), a political party whose main platforms include copyright and patent reform, have recently taken their efforts one step further and have launched an ISP (internet service provider). Dubbed "Pirate ISP," the service seeks to offer anonymity to its users and to provide financial assistance to Piratpartiet.
Born out of the controversy surrounding the BitTorrent tracker The Pirate Bay, Pirate ISP was deemed necessary to ensure that competition flourished in the Swedish ISP market and that users who wished to file-share would be protected against the efforts of the Swedish anti-piracy lobby group,...
Amazon: The Ultimate Online Marketplace
Friday, July 23rd, 2010
It is the end of your second semester and first year of your private university. You have this pile of $1000 worth of textbooks sitting in your basement, untouched, unscathed. What do you do?
You learned from first semester that you CAN actually get $.25 back for a book. (Yes this ACTUALLY happened to ME). At this point, something has got to give, so you explore your options. Then, BING! Amazon.com becomes your new best friend.
Here is how it works: you create a selller profile by first establishing a seller name. Here are some suggestions (of course you have to...
iMac
Wednesday, July 14th, 2010
Apple’s new iMac represents the best forward-thinking in the desktop computer market. The sleek, all-in-one unit could easily be mistaken for just a monitor, but the entire computer – monitor, cpu, disk drive, and ports – is built in.
The first thing that caught my attention when I went to set up the new iMac was that there was one cable, the power cord, connected to the computer. That’s it. The keyboard is wireless. The mouse is wireless. The printer, the internet connection, everything is freestanding with no wires connecting back to the computer itself.
We...
Google Pac-Man
Friday, June 4th, 2010
You probably saw when Google had Pac-Man on their homepage in celebration of the 30th anniversary of the game. Okay, so you saw it; did you play it too? I thankfully did not get too invested in the game and probably played for about 10 seconds before my boss rounded the corner, but some people played for hours. Do you know how much time was "wasted" due to this game last week?
Five million hours-- that's right, five million. This, of course, is an estimate from companies that use a time-tracking software. This software, used at companies such as Rescue...
No Adobe Flash on the iPad?!
Monday, April 12th, 2010
Well, ladies and gentlemen, it's official. It has been known that Apple wouldn't be including Flash on the iPad for a little while, but now we have a better knowledge of why...
In my opinion, the whole mess is a rather complicated 'he said, she said" mess. Is either company truly correct? NO! Both companies are doing the classic "blame someone else and cover my %@$!" So, here is what I have collected on the situation.
Adobe's Flash isn't on the iPad because, Steve Jobs apparently told employees that Flash would soon be made obsolete by HTML5, and that it’s too buggy,...