tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91073766628060234632024-08-30T16:46:53.889-07:00Technology is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the otherBuya Khatibhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06247065166515327438noreply@blogger.comBlogger59125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107376662806023463.post-87770817566368616902013-01-21T05:06:00.003-08:002013-01-21T05:06:56.766-08:00

Indicted Megaupload founder opens new sharing site — Indicted Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom launched a new file-sharing website that promises users greater privacy and defies the U.S. prosecutors who accuse him of facilitating massive online piracy. The colorful entrepreneur unveiled the "Mega" site ahead of a lavish gala and news conference at his New Zealand mansion on Sunday night, the

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Polaroid Reinvents Itself Again With “Fotobars” -In 1948 Polaroid revolutionized the photography market by replacing the drawn-out process of developing film with an instant photo -- what could take weeks to see was now ready within 60 seconds. Polaroid provided its customers with instant gratification and a quick and easy way to share photos amongst friends, something that Steve Jobs took to

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Siblings Separated for 65 Years Reunited by an iPad and an 8-Year-Old - The Internet makes our lives easier in a lot of ways. Specifically, if you've lost touch with someone for a few years, having the world wide web at your fingertips, can make your search go a lot more smoothly. But what if you have not seen someone for sixty-five years? That was the case for Betty Billadeau and her brother

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Ten Incredibly Simple Things You Should Be Doing to Protect Your Privacy - Over the weekend, I wound up at Washington, D.C.’s Trapeze School with a group of friends. Before one of them headed up a ladder to attempt a somersault landing from the trapeze bar, she handed me her phone and asked me to take photos. “What’s the password?” I asked. “I don’t use one,” she replied. My jaw dropped as it

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Can Samsung survive without Android? - Samsung (005930) is the world’s top Android smartphone vendor by a staggering margin. Aside from LG (066570), which managed a small $20 million profit from its mobile division last quarter, no other global Android vendor can figure out how to make money selling Android phones. Meanwhile, Samsung posted a $6 billion profit on $47.6 billion in sales in the

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Ten gotta-know iPad tips you need to try - Learn how to split the iPad’s keyboard in two, swipe from one app to another, change what the “side switch” does, turn the iPad into a digital photo frame, and more. 1. Add more apps to the home-screen app tray When you first got your iPad, it probably came with four apps sitting in a tray at the bottom of the home screen: the Safari web

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French men produce less sperm than past generations - A drop in sperm levels in French men mirrors that of men worldwide, research shows. When it comes to sperm counts, French men aren't what they used to be, according to a new study. Researchers found that between 1989 and 2005, the number of sperm in one milliliter of the average 35-year-old Frenchman's semen fell from about 74 million to

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Ten Ways to Get the Absolute Best Price Online - When you’re shopping online, prices on everything from toilet paper to TVs could fluctuate several times a day. Dynamic pricing, a strategy that the travel industry has been using for years, is now being used online for many consumer goods. According to a recent article in The Wall Street Journal… “Retailers on Amazon.com changed prices on a

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How Waterproof Are Your Gadgets? - It's summer, and that means the beach, the pool, or the lake! While water may be great for us, it's not always so good for our electronic gadgets. So here are my top tips for how to protect the gear you already own, plus the best waterproof gear to buy new. Protecting the Gear You Own If you keep your phone in your pocket, it can get really sweaty,

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Does it Pay to Airbrush Your Profile Photo? - Generation Facebook may never grow old. New apps are making age-defying photo airbrushing techniques once reserved for celebrity magazine covers available instantly and inexpensively to just about anyone. Airbrushing computer software such as the $40 Portrait Professional and Magic Brush-Photo can create perfect, youthful complexions. Other

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Band Creates First-Ever Music Video Made Entirely with Instagram - Instagram is arguably one of the coolest inventions of the last couple of years for smartphones. Some people might even say that it has revolutionized the way people share photos on social media. The premier feature, which allows users to add different filters to photos that enhance the colors and shading, is wildly popular. So

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How Google Stole Christmas (And is Bringing it Back) - Google's Nexus smartphones and tablets have a unique feature that's also a curse. They come with the latest version of Android (which is actually unusual among Android devices), and they're basically guaranteed to get updates throughout their lifespan (which is also unusual). But on the downside, Nexus owners are also the first to discover

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Microsoft will ‘crush’ Google and ‘muscle-out’ Apple in smartphone, tablet markets - Google’s (GOOG) Android platform clearly dominates the mobile landscape in terms of market share, and though Samsung (005930) continues to close in, Apple (AAPL) leads the pack in profitability by a wide margin. According to one industry watcher, however, they should all be watching out for Microsoft (MSFT).

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Surprising Tools That Slow Down Browsing - When you first got your computer, you practically flew around the Internet. But if loading websites now takes forever, some simple housekeeping can help you speed up your browsing. So let's roll up our sleeves and get going. First, think of your browser as a bike; the more baggage you load onto it, the slower you go, so start streamlining.

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Hidden Powers of Your Mouse - You use your mouse for just about everything: you drag, you drop, you highlight, you scroll. But even if you click your mouse a thousand times a day, I bet I've got a few secret mouse tricks you've never heard of. Click Tricks You surely know that double clicking highlights a word, and you might even know that triple clicking highlights a paragraph. But

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Sanebox Is Priority Inbox for Gmail Done Awesome - I’ve been using Sanebox for awhile and I absolutely love it – it has changed the way I use Gmail. I was very excited with Priority Inbox for Gmail when it launched, but it didn’t quite hit the mark for me – perhaps it would have gotten better if I had invested more in training it. I found too many emails marked as priority that really weren’t.

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Apple Backlash Hits Critical Mass But “Cheap” Stock Stuck in Limbo - What's eating Apple?- A few months ago, the blogosphere was filled with amazing comparisons of Apple's size to not just other companies -- including the combined market caps of Microsoft, Google, Facebook and Amazon at one point -- but entire countries and industries as the Things Apple Is Worth More Than tumblr details.

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Facebook’s False Faces Undermine Its Credibility — The Facebook page for Gaston Memorial Hospital, in Gastonia, N.C., offers a chicken salad recipe to encourage healthy eating, tips on avoiding injuries at Zumba class, and pictures of staff members dressed up at Halloween. Typical stuff for a hospital in a small town. But in October, another Facebook page for the hospital popped up. This one

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The Survivor Truck, built to drive through the end of the world - "Sometimes," author William S. Burroughs once said, "paranoia is just having all the facts." Given the facts gathered from the past few natural and man-made disasters, it's not a surprise that many people have begun to think of what they'd need to survive the next calamity. One California man has taken a kitchen-sink approach and

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Why You Shouldn't Buy the iPhone 5 - Apple's botched Maps app isn't the only bad thing about this new technological marvel. - Not too jazzed about giving Apple Maps a try on the new iPhone 5? There may be another reason to keep your 4S in your pocket: It has lower levels of harmful chemicals, according to a report just released by a Michigan-based environmental health nonprofit called the

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Hidden Powers of Your Mouse - You use your mouse for just about everything: you drag, you drop, you highlight, you scroll. But even if you click your mouse a thousand times a day, I bet I've got a few secret mouse tricks you've never heard of. Click Tricks   You surely know that double clicking highlights a word, and you might even know that triple clicking highlights a

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It was 30 years ago today the CD began to play - The Compact Disc format changed the way we listened to music in the 1980s. Sony's first player, the CDP-101, went on sale on October 1, 1982, in Japan, and six months later here in the U.S. At $1,000 it was pretty expensive, but supplies were limited, so every one sold for full price. Before the CD arrived, the mainstream music market was split

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While Apple Waits, Google Is Busy Making Awesome Underwater Maps of the Great Barrier Reef - The backlash over deficiencies and inaccuracies in Apple's new maps app has Apple squirming and iPhone users yearning for the day when Google unveils its own third-party maps app for Apple's mobile operating system. That day is coming, eventually, according to The Verge and the New York Times' Bits blog.

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Corn Maze Becomes World's Largest QR Code - In a triumph of both technology and agriculture, the Guinness World Record for largest Quick Response code has been claimed by a corn maze. The maze was the brainchild of the Kraay family of Lacombe, Alberta, Canada, farmers who decided to add a technological twist to the maze they make every year.The Guinness World Record for largest Quick Response

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Space Elevator Project Shoots for the Moon - A space elevator capable of shuttling robots or humans from the Earth to space remains decades away. But a company headed by a former NASA researcher says it can build a space elevator on the moon using today's technology.The LiftPort Group wants to raise $8,000 on the crowd-funding website Kickstarter for its first step — creating a floating balloon

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