Category: Web

  • Facebook’s Timeline: Life flashing before your eyes has never been so awesome

    Facebook’s new Timeline profiles start rolling out to the public today. Many users were able to preview the new profiles early through Facebook’s Developer program, so I’ve already had a week to play around with Timeline. You’ve probably heard a lot of buzz about its “great design” or “privacy nightmare”, so what’s all the fuss…

  • Smartphones Are The Future. Of Everything.

    I sincerely hope you’re a fan of smartphones and own at least one. Why? Because smartphones are the future. Of everything. Just a few years ago we all had normal, run-of-the-mill cellphones (which are now lovingly referred to as feature phones). We would primarily use them to make and receive calls, and send and receive…

  • U.S. Postal Service on the Brink of Bankruptcy Thanks to Email

    It’s one of those situations where it only takes a matter of time, and that time is right around the corner for the United States Postal Service (USPS), which according to Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe, is on the verge of bankruptcy and will most likely default if Congress doesn’t step in and help out. It’s…

  • Facebook Unveils New Features at F8 Developer Conference

    Today at Facebook’s F8 developer conference, Mark Zuckerberg announced some new features that will be making their way to users sometime in the future. Most notable is something called the Timeline, which will take all the status updates from everyone and organize them in an iPad-style magazine of sorts. To keep it from becoming too cluttered,…

  • Why Klout Has No Clout

    You have no doubt seen people boasting of their Klout score, and how they’re specialists in their chosen field of interest and able to influence dozens of people on certain subjects. You may even have a Klout score yourself, whether you actually chose to be involved with the social media startup or not. It’s a…

  • How to Back Up Your Google Tasks

    How to Back Up Your Google Tasks

    One of the the main concerns people have about trusting their data to a cloud service is whether or not they can get their information out of a  particular service. Some services do a good job. Others … well, not so much. Google is trying to make backing up your data easier, with both Google…

  • A Chrome Experiment that (Literally) Shakes up the Google Homepage

    Give people the option to work with Google Chrome using JavaScript, HTML5, and other browser tools, and they’ll start designing some pretty creative things.  For example: Is that the Google homepage?  It certainly appears that way.  But something is wrong. Sweet mercy…the Google homepage has developed its own gravitational force.  The second you hover over…

  • Google Brings Back Offline Support to Gmail, Adds Offline Docs and Calendar

    Ever since the demise of Google Gears back in December 2009, we’ve always been yearning to get some kind of offline support back to our essential Google applications. Finally, they’ve added offline mode to Gmail, Docs and Calendars. However, it’s only available through the Chrome web browser. Why only Chrome, you ask? Well, Google says…

  • GIVEAWAY: Win a 3 month subscription of Slacker Premium Radio

    Only a few years ago, I couldn’t see an end to the music piracy/RIAA debacle. It would go something like this: A new music sharing application would emerge, it would be promptly used for illegal activities, and then the RIAA would roll in and hand out lawsuits which usually ended in the service being shut…

  • 5 Must-Have Chromebook Apps for Work

    5 Must-Have Chromebook Apps for Work

    So you’ve got a shiny new Chromebook. You’ve installed all of the stock Google apps — like Google Docs, Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Reader. But you need more apps to do your work. The big problem is choosing apps from all of the options that are available. Let’s wander over to the Chrome Web…