By Mark O’Neill For years, you’ve probably played computer games and helped save beautiful princesses, defeated the evil warlocks, blasted away your enemies and racked up countless points. But how about playing a different game this time? One in which the better you get, the more chance you have to help make real medical discoveries […]
By Mark O’Neill This article in the New York Times really struck a raw nerve with me because it is a touchy subject in my life at the moment. The article is about spammers who are moving their harassment from emails to the cellphone (or mobile phone if you are in Europe). Never a day […]
By Mark O’Neill Levi Strauss are celebrating getting onto YouTube’s coveted “most viewed” spot with their “back-flipping jeans” video clip. Since Monday, it has clocked up 1.4 million views and no doubt it isn’t doing any harm to the Levi Strauss sales targets either. The company insists that no trickery was performed. The people in the clip […]
By Mark O’Neill I seem to be finding some thought-provoking lists today online. This one, on the website of Ryan Spoon (great name!) is what internet services you would be willing to fork over money for if you were forced to. A lot of stuff on the internet is free these days, to the point […]
By Mark O’Neill I came across an interesting list called “15 People Who Changed The Internet” and all the obvious characters are on there – Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Sir Tim Berners-Lee… but the list got me wondering who is NOT on there. As with any product, it’s one thing to invent the Internet but […]
Just because Earth is a beautiful place. Music by composer Jo Blankenburg. Enjoy! [Via Neatorama]
By Mark O’Neill One of the things I like to do is research and buy web domain names. I am NOT a cyber-squatter mind you but I like to think up creative URL’s, see if they are available, buy the domains for a year and see if I can make a project out of them […]
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By JR Raphael Contributing Writer, [GAS] Fellow Outlook users, prepare to revolutionize your email experience. Allow me to introduce you to my new best friend and personal assistant, Xobni (pronounced ZOB-nee, and spelled like a backwards inbox). He and I just met this morning, but we’ve really hit it off. Xobni is a powerful little […]
By JR Raphael Contributing Writer, [GAS] I often write about cool gadgets we’d all like to own. Well, my friends, today I am turning the tables and focusing on a pricey little gadget you should be embarrassed to own. This is the $300,000 watch…that doesn’t tell time. Have you heard of this thing? It’s the […]