Breakfast of Champions
For the 2009 series, the USOpen has launched an on-line video stream for all of their broadcasts that is magnitudes better than any other I’ve seen to date. I’m sure there are some good ones I may have missed, but this one has fantastic features that can’t be overlooked. This is a game-changing way to watch tennis. First, I’m not the type of person who will go out of my way to watch the game...
The purpose of this post is two-fold: First: To stress the importance of preserving the security of your on-line identity Second: Exposing a company who’s doing an inexcusably poor job of protecting your on-line identity Most of us don’t realize how insecure the on-line world can be. You create an account on a website, give it a username and the password of your choosing. That password is...
UPDATE 8/6 8.04am: It appears to be a Denial of Service attack that Twitter is currently combating. Back when Twitter was still just a method for geeks to spout off about whatever, seeing the Fail Whale was quite commonplace. Multiple times per day, Twitter would get overloaded and the system simply couldn’t keep up. Post venture capital, it’s finally come around that everyone from...
This amazing new technology called Layar is currently available on Android devices, but is supposedly being developed for the iPhone 3G S as well. What is it? Point your phone at a location and see what it’s all about. For example, you’re on a city street and you want information about the 4 restaurants in front of you…point your phone at ’em and check out the info as...
A while back, I posted about some Amazing Human-Computer Interfaces. Today, I’m adding a couple of big-name entries into this space. Microsoft and Sony both announced some new controller technologies at E3 a couple weeks back, and I’ve included promotional videos from both. The PS3 motion controller solution appears to be a little closer to prime time and uses a hand-held device...
Yet another installment of links that are hopefully not indicative of the title… Google announced a few new search features last week, allowing you to further drill-down into your search results based on type (Video, Forums, Reviews), time (recent, 24 hours, week, year), style (standard, with images, more text), and view (related searches, timeline, and the “wonder wheel”). Give it a shot by...
Wolfram|Alpha – Could it be the next “Google Killer”? Every so often, a new technology comes about that changes the way we do things. Electricity, Television, the Refrigerator, the Dishwasher, the Internet, Google, Personal Computing, Microsoft, the iPhone…these are all fair examples of world-changing inventions. Looking at what Google has done to the many industries they’ve touched (Internet...
EDIT 2011.05.12: I’ve since moved to Windows Live to synchronize my notebooks since SugarSync seems to be generating copious amounts of duplicates. Not sure what happened, but it started thinking nearly every tab was a duplicate even if the other PC wasn’t on. Very difficult to manage the additional tabs and assure items weren’t duplicated. While “Live” has a...
Because I seem to have gotten pelted with a bunch of cool stuff over the past few days… This video’s been around a bit, but the geek in me loves a crazy machine. This is the most insane wine corking / pouring gadget ever created: ** Video no longer available So, Google acquired GrandCentral a while back and they’re on the verge of releasing Google Voice. It’s only...
It’s rare that I run across an article that makes me want to link it in my blog directly. Normally, I’ll Digg it, or Tweet it, or put it in my Shared News, or something similar so it shows up in my LifeStream (the side-bar to the left). However, this one deserves special mention. It’s a list of 32 applications that you, geek or not, might very well find useful in some form or...