Tag: Tech

  • Social Networking Bankruptcy?

    A good friend and fellow techie, Steve McGurn,  has done the unthinkable and declared amnesty on his social networking profiles. I know this will sound insane coming from a WEB2.0 evangelist such as me, but he’s right. The idea of all these networks sounds great. Find old school chums on Facebook, keep up to date…

  • The Quicksilver-for-Windows Showdown

    Before I owned my first Mac, Quicksilver was the application that made me wish I did. Luckily, slowly but surely, Windows developers began building apps intended to successfully attain that Quicksilver-for-Windows status. They started as simple application launchers, but recently the Quicksilver-for-Windows battle has exploded with tons of new applications. [From LifeHacker] Sometimes Dreams do…

  • Depriving the Middle East of YouTube

    Disruption to internet services in south Asia and the Middle East continues after undersea cable damage.[via the Beeb] Stealing their oil and trying to instill democracy is one thing but depriving the Middle East of YouTube is just plain cruel and most contravene the Geneva Convention. [UPDATED] FEB 6th, OK this isn’t funny anymore. There…

  • Currys stops selling analogue TVs

    [From BEEB] Electrical retailers Currys, Dixons and PC World will now promote digital TV sets with built-in Freeview tuners. Why hasn’t this happened in be in Canada yet? This is perfect excuse for going out getting that 50 LCD everyone absolutely _needs_!

  • Mahalo’s Veronica Belmont Interviews Stan Lee, Excelsior!

    Spider-Man is a superhero created by writer-editor Stan Lee and writer-artist Steve Ditko. He first appeared in the anthology comic book Amazing Fantasy #15 (Aug. 1962) in the Silver Age of Comic Books. He appears in American comic books published by Marvel Comics and in movies, television shows, and video game adaptations set in the…

  • Email Etiquette – Emailers Anonymous

    I am a huge fan of email etiquette, I spend so much of life in Outlook or on my BlackBerry that whenever I encounter random acts of email stupidity, I simply want to go postal. In a previous life, I would refer offenders to the company email etiquette policy  I had written up. Now I…

  • Creepy Google Maps Video

    Thanks to Eric for sending this one in. We all love Google Maps, but do you just wish that sometimes, you could see a little more from the Street View. Well this creepy Google Maps video does just that. [from Google Blogoscoped ]

  • BlackBerry’s Dark Little GPS Secret

    You _don’t_ need TeleNav! What you say? BlackBerry holding out their beloved _crackberry_ loyalists? Well yes, in the case of their GPS services they have completely undersold their own apps in order to sell you something you probably don’t even need. I had never really used BlackBerry Maps on the my previous BB 7250 and…

  • The 60 Second Keynote!

    I love Mahalo for this kind of stuff. This truly is the only way to watch his Steveness with out being affect by the Reality Distortion Field. I must admit that into the 58th second, I could start to feel it. So far my favourite review is from Scott Davis, who was force fed the…

  • Getting Ready for the Big SteveNote 2008

    I will be spending my lunch hour, following this year’s Macworld KeyNote by Steve Jobs (SteveNote) on Engadget, TUAW and possible Cali Lewi’s GeekBreif coverage as well. Hoping for a sub compact notebook, a MacMini/AppleTV Hybrid and an iPod Touch update. Oh and a Beatles Yellow Submarine iPod! UPDATE The GeekBrief Stream is not working…