By Jimmy Rogers Contributing Writer, [GAS] As a graduate student, I’m certainly not a high-roller financially, but for the first time in my life I’m making more money than I spend. It’s certainly not much, but it’s gotten me thinking: should I be more proactive about my savings? Over the last few weeks I’ve looked […]
Remember that awesome Chrome speed tests commercial we posted a few weeks back? Well, after seeing this, the folks at Opera wanted to respond to the ad by running their own browser speed test and putting it on film. Here’s the result: [Via Gizmodo]
Facebook’s founder and chief has come as close as seems likely to happen to apologizing for inadequate privacy policies. Writing in the Washington Post, Mark Zuckerberg said that the company had thought it best to offer users detailed controls over every aspect of user settings relating to data use and privacy, but that “We just […]
Several major social networks are reexamining their policies after the revelation of a loophole that could allow advertisers to access personal details of users more easily. The problem is remarkably simple: when a user of a website (Facebook, Myspace, etc…) clicks on an advert, the advertiser is able to see the website address from which […]
A few weeks ago, Steve Jobs published a piece letting the world know about his thoughts on flash, and in response, Adobe started this ad campaign: After the ad was released, a clever blogger then imagined Apple’s response to the commercial: [Via Buzzfeed]
This is a guest post from D. Salmons over at TestFreaks – a one-stop resource for the real geeks. Not sure what’s the best printer to buy? TestFreaks will help you to choose the right model. Okay, let’s play a game. Name the major web browsers in use today. If you are on a Windows […]
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As a geek, you definitely know your ABCs, but do you know these? From A to Z, “away team” to “zork,” here is [GAS]’s take on the Geek Alphabet. Please note that all pictures featured below were licensed under a “CC” license. We’ve sourced them all at the bottom of this post. All images used […]
The internet could run out of addresses as early as next year — and there are warnings that a “black market” could develop further. The problem isn’t with domain names, which can be expanded simply by creating news suffixes, but rather with IP addresses. Those are the numbers which, to put things very simply, identify […]
My pal Korben (who runs the most awesome French blog on the web, seriously) recently got his hands on a few close-up shots of a Google Street View vehicle, and when he sent me his link to the shots, I knew some of you guys would be interested in seeing them. Unfortunately, the 360° objective […]