Technology

This category is for stuff about gadgets, gizmos, programs, and other neat techie stuff.

Chrome for Android

February 7, 2012
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"Today, we're introducing Chrome for Android Beta, which brings many of the things you’ve come to love about Chrome to your Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich phone or tablet."

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Guys, It’s Not About the Piracy.

January 11, 2012
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Guys, It’s Not About the Piracy.

One of the problems with the protest against legislation like SOPA and the PROTECT-IP Act comes in trying to explain a lot of fine and complicated details to folks who just want to use their computers to get the latest Groupon deal or update their Facebook status. Very little useful information is trickling out to the general audience about the particulars of these bills, and much of what’s being reported about them is coming from techblogs. Techbloggers are finding themselves bogged down in trying to explain technical details to a general purpose audience. The end result is the general...

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Test-Driving Storify

April 25, 2011
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Storify

Storify is a cool new social media tool that lets you pull elements from across several social media platforms to create stories, that you can then embed into online articles, blog posts, and so forth. Storify just went into public beta, so I signed up for an account, and built a quick story for Game of Thrones. Check it out, and tell me what you think!

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The Week in Geek

April 23, 2011
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This week: the Doctor Who series six premiere, Elisabeth Sladen died, cool brain physiology differences between "liberals" and "conservatives," more news about Chrome OS and the CR-48, and the University of Michigan broke physics while we weren't looking.

Warning: we've already seen the Doctor Who premiere, and there are very teeny spoilers, for anyone who might be worried.

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Living in the Cloud

April 1, 2011
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Cloud Computing

My laptop has been threatening to take a dump on me, so I've been backing up all my files. Since I also have Google's Chrome OS netbook, I decided to back everything up to the cloud this time, instead of putting it all on disk. This marks my first entry into real, actual cloud computing. We'll see how this little experiment goes, eh?

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