By Rodney Brazeau Contributing Writer, [GAS] Google made a brave effort as the potential Facebook Killer with its own social media website Google+. The complete lack of anything ending in “ville” does make me want to jump to that service, but it seems that despite its initial signup of 90 million people, Google+ is not [...]
While Blizzard Entertainment’s official All-Things-Starcraft-Warcraft-Diablo gaming convention is such a big deal, it seemed odd that they would NOT have one this year. After all, the media gaming giant has Heart of the Swarm (Starcraft2 Expansion), Mists of Pandaria (World of Warcraft Expansion) and Diablo 3 all being released this year. But in a side [...]
Microsoft has launched legal action against a major electrical retailer after accusing it of large-scale piracy. It claims the Comet Group PLC unlawfully copied and produced more than 94,000 sets of recovery disks for Windows XP and Vista, selling them to customers who purchased Windows-loaded PCs and laptops. Comet is owned by a French parent [...]
by Meredith Placko While millions of Americans fought tooth, nail, and pepper spray to get their hands on some mighty deals, this geek girl somehow managed to avoid the annual contact sport known as Black Friday. While sitting in my office, pouring over YouTube videos of people at their very best in Holiday cheer (and [...]
For today’s edition of Deal of the day, Amazon offers some huge savings on various versions of Adobe’s video-editing titles. For instance, you can get Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 for just $399 instead of $799, or Adobe Cs5.5 Production Premium for $838 instead of $1,699.00. [Save Up to 50% on Adobe Pro Video-Editing Software]
Tuesday, the T3 Gadget Awards 2011 named the Galaxy S II “Phone of the Year” — the first time in 3 years the award hasn’t gone to Apple or HTC. Today, T-Mobile is releasing their version of the GSII, which is already available on Sprint and AT&T. The T-Mobile GSII is the final version to launch in [...]
Yep geeks, Google Earth has recently passed the one billion downloads mark, so to celebrate, Google has just released this video. I know I’ve downloaded the software at least 20 times in the past few years, so considering this, evaluating the number of real users using the product would be kind of difficult. [OneWorldManyStories]
A political party in Switzerland has a set of policies that could fit on a single bullet point on a single presentation slide. And that’s appropriate given the party’s sole aim is to get rid of PowerPoint. Strictly speaking, the Anti-PowerPoint-Party wants to get rid of all presentation software. It believes that 95 percent of [...]
You’ve got to admit, it’s a pretty brave to say to a judge “downloading all those illegal files worth $5 million is just art, Your Honor.” Here are the details on the “5 Million Dollars 1 Terabyte” sculpture: A new exhibit at the Art 404 gallery, 5 Million Dollars, 1 Terabyte, blurs the boundaries of [...]
Can’t get a date, fellow geeks? Perhaps it’s your face. No, we not putting you down: it’s just that people are known to make snap judgments on whether other people are nice or mean, trustworthy or a crook, competent or inept in the first fraction of a second upon seeing their faces. Now, computer scientists [...]
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CollegeHumor’s CMYKilla is back with a new (surprisingly useful) Photoshop tutorial rap. In case you missed it, here’s the original, which instructs in red-eye removal, drop shadow and unicorn magicking with near-Shakespearean prose (content warning: some NSFW language): And part two, which shows us how to ‘shop a wicked-sweet space cat (content warning: memes): [CollegeHumor [...]
