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Form creation site JotForm seized by US government due to user content

Feb. 16, 2012 (8:02 am) By: Matthew Humphries In: News

SOPA didn’t get passed and most people sighed with relief, but that hasn’t stopped domains being seized and taken down due to the content being posted. In the case of Megaupload the seizure probably didn’t come as a surprise to many, but another domain was seized late yesterday even though all it does is produce [...]

Doodle Defense: Kinect-powered tower defense on a whiteboard

Feb. 16, 2012 (7:15 am) By: Matthew Humphries In: Games, News

When browser-based gaming first appeared, it was tower defense games that helped it become popular. The simplicity of defeating wave after wave of enemies with defenses you create yourself had gamers hooked. Now tower defense is set for another evolution, this time introducing drawing to the equation. Andy Wallace is a student at Parsons design [...]

This tank-like iPhone case is perfect for outdoorsy Apple fans

Feb. 15, 2012 (6:35 pm) By: Will Shanklin In: Apple, Mobile, News

The iPhone is a slick, attractive device. It’s light, relatively small, and has an appealing combination of glass and steel. Have you ever wanted to take all of that and wrap it in a thick, heavy, camouflaged hunk of polycarbonate? No?? Well, in case you ever change your mind, a new Kickstarter project has you [...]

Artist captures lightning in acrylic to make mind-blowing art

Feb. 15, 2012 (6:05 pm) By: Ray Walters In:

As both science and technology continue to pervade our culture, traditional hobbies and professions are shifting to reflect these new influences. The video above shows an example of this, as an Illinois artist uses a particle accelerator to bombard pieces of acrylic to create incredible works of art. He is literally capturing miniature lightning and [...]

Was Windows 8 designed on a Mac?

Feb. 15, 2012 (5:14 pm) By: Will Shanklin In: Apple, News

Sometimes no amount of persuasive text can compensate for one telling image. For all of the pre-release Windows 8 hype that Microsoft has been drumming up during the last year, it apparently forgot to mention one key detail: it was designed on a Mac. Okay, so maybe it’s misleading to conclude that Windows 8 was [...]

Windows 95 let you close the Start button, but why?

Feb. 15, 2012 (4:30 pm) By: Matthew Humphries In:

If you were a geek back when Windows 95 was the latest version of Microsoft‘s operating system, you probably knew about a quirk of the Start button. For some reason, Microsoft allowed it to be closed, rendering you with a bar across the bottom of the screen (in its default layout) devoid of a way [...]

Sony’s 8-year-plan for the Vita severely underestimates iOS and Android

Feb. 15, 2012 (3:46 pm) By: Will Shanklin In: Games, Geek Pick, Mobile, News

The portable gaming landscape has seen a complete overhaul since the PSP launched nearly seven years ago. Back then, Sony’s biggest competition — its only competition — came from Nintendo. Even then, the options were clear: novelty family device (DS), or serious gaming device (PSP). In 2012, as we approach the US launch of the [...]

SanDisk claims Extreme SSD drives are 10x faster than HDDs

Feb. 15, 2012 (2:58 pm) By: Matthew Humphries In: Chips, News

SanDisk has today announced a new super-fast consumer SSD drive carrying the name Extreme SSD. The drive comes in both 120GB and 240GB capacities. The name Extreme is earned through the sequential read and write speeds of 550MB/s and 520MB/s respectively over a SATA III 6Gb/s connection. According to SanDisk, the Extreme SSD is 10x [...]

The best RSS reader apps for iPad

Feb. 15, 2012 (2:11 pm) By: Will Shanklin In: Gadgets, Geek Pick, News

Once upon a time, news came exclusively from newspapers, magazines, and television. Those poor saps: there was always a delay between event and coverage (in the case of newspapers, you were always a day behind), and you couldn’t tailor your news to your personal interests. The internet — particularly the mobile internet — has changed [...]

Own a Motorola device? Don’t expect Ice Cream Sandwich anytime soon

Feb. 15, 2012 (1:21 pm) By: Will Shanklin In: Gadgets, Mobile, News

For all of the benefits that Android offers — variety, customization, cutting-edge specs — official software updates can be a problem. Unless you have a Nexus device, chances are good that you’ll be waiting for months before you get a new version of Android on your phone. Often Google will have released a new update [...]

Puzzazz gets handwriting recognition working on touchscreen Kindles

Feb. 15, 2012 (12:35 pm) By: Matthew Humphries In: Gadgets, Games, News

When Amazon announced the latest generation of Kindle it included a touchscreen option in the form of the Kindle Touch, which allowed the entire unit to be smaller due to the removal of the keyboard. Beyond simple input and navigation, the touchscreen isn’t used for anything else, that is, until Puzzazz started experimenting with it. [...]

Google DNS handles more than 70 billion requests every day

Feb. 15, 2012 (11:46 am) By: Lee Mathews In: News

For years, Google has championed the idea of a faster web. Their commitment is obvious for anyone using Chrome, which continues to add new tricks and tune its engines to deliver the speediest internet experience possible. Chrome was initially released in 2009 — the same year that they introduced another product designed to speed up [...]

Portal proof-of-concept appears for Android

Feb. 15, 2012 (11:01 am) By: Matthew Humphries In: Games, Mobile, News

There are two things happening in the world of mobile devices at the moment that make porting games from other, more powerful platforms easier. The first is a growing list of tools that remove a lot of the pain out of games development. The second is increasingly powerful hardware allowing for detailed 3D environments and [...]

Resident Evil 6 has zombies using weapons, new control system

Feb. 15, 2012 (10:15 am) By: Matthew Humphries In: Games, Games Picks, News

Capcom officially announced the existence of Resident Evil 6 last month, with the game heading to Xbox 360, PS3, and PC on November 20 this year. That’s a long time to wait, but also a great opportunity for Capcom to drip feed us new information about the game every month. We already knew that RE6 [...]

How to tether your iPhone

Feb. 15, 2012 (9:30 am) By: Will Shanklin In: Apple, Geek Pick, Mobile, News

When Apple unveils the iPad 3 next month, it will (probably) offer two options for connectivity: one model that is Wi-Fi-only, and another that utilizes 3G/4G data networks. But if you already own an iPhone with an expensive monthly data plan, it isn’t going to be in your best interest to buy data for a [...]

HTC and Interscope working on a Spotify rival

Feb. 15, 2012 (8:47 am) By: Lee Mathews In: Mobile, News

Good news, everyone! HTC is reportedly working on yet another music streaming service. Why? Because Spotify, Rdio, Napster, Last.fm, Pandora, Slacker, Zune, Mflow, Kazaa, and the rest don’t provide quite enough options for listeners just yet. Apparently the opportunity to create yet another streaming music service has arisen because the record industry is fearful of [...]

Bethesda explains why Morrowind and Cyrodiil are in Skyrim

Feb. 15, 2012 (8:02 am) By: Matthew Humphries In: Games, News

In November last year a 19-year-old named Jesse made a surprising discovery while playing Skyrim. Using the console commands (No-clip) he traveled to the most south-eastern area of the game known as Stendarr’s Beacon and went beyond the game’s boundaries down a path between two mountains. What he found was low detail versions of the [...]

Gyroscope used for self-leveling cruise ship pool table

Feb. 15, 2012 (7:16 am) By: Ray Walters In:

One of the first things I hear friends say after returning from a cruise ship vacation is that “they have thought of everything on board that boat!” After seeing the video of the gyroscopic pool table aboard the Radiance of the Seas luxury-liner, I tend to agree. Billiards or pool is not a game that [...]

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