September 8, 2010
Today Google announced “Google Instant”. An AJAX powered realtime search engine. While you’re still typing, Google will begin to show results without you having to hit enter. This is massive in scale, and the only thing even remotely close is when Bing and Google played around with including...
Google’s just announced “Google Instant”, is taking one of the things that we loved from the recently failed Google Wave and bringing it to the search engine. Google claims the reason for this feature is to increase speed, however I believe it is for another reason.
You see, this is a way to show up to 4 times the amount of advertisements. Start typing a word and more text ads are displayed as the word is formed then before when you would simply search for...
It would appear that with the Galaxy Tab and other Samsung Android Phones that have recently been shipping, that Samsung really is betting their future on Google.
“Android’s share in the smartphone market is increasing, so if you want to strengthen your product line-up, it’s an operating system that you would normally want,” said Jin Sung Hae, a Seoul-based analyst at Hyundai Securities Co.
Editor’s note – I find it interesting that Samsung is...
For all of you running the ios 4.0 on your iPhone 3g, rejoice! The new update shows itself to be speedier and to help with the lag in the UI. Its due to come out next week.
Read more at lifehacker.
This ought to excite or at least bring some bit of joy to anyone who’s still using the WebOS platform. I’ll admit it almost makes me wish I hadn’t sold my WebOS device already. No word on when this update gets pushed out.
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September 1, 2010
August 18, 2010
Like most nerds, I love to read. I’ve amassed small towers of literature all around my room. Some new, some ancient, some in great shape, some literally falling apart. This guide is a great tutorial on how to get a little more life out of an old paperback book by turning it into...
August 17, 2010
Remember when people were saying that netbooks would destroy the iPad?
Asustek Computer saw sales of its netbooks in the second quarter fall short of expectations mainly due to competition from Apple’s iPad, and has downward adjusted its target shipments for the third quarter, the traditional peak sales period, to 1.4 million units, according to company president and CEO Jerry Shen at an investors conference on August 13.
Because of decreased shipments of...
August 16, 2010
Observation and emulation is the most natural way of finding your own style. The subtle danger lies in the fact that not all things that initially appear cool actually are. And us nerds, many of whom are sartorially naive, are vulnerable to duplicating things that may make them look bad, sloppy, or worst of all, like a tool. (IE. Don’t take style advice from Bret Michaels.)
August 9, 2010
Morley Davidson, John Dethridge, Herbert Kociemba, and Tomas Rokicki have officially conquered the Rubik’s Cube officially proving man greater then machine (man meaning brains telling supercomputers what to do, and machine being a small plastic toy). They also mathematically proved that…
Every position of...