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Selfsurfing Lets You Watch a Guy Browse the Web: The Exact Opposite of Private Browsing
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Online privacy is a constant issue nowadays, and with good reason. Lots of companies and organizations are raring to gather and analyze the data we produce for profit or knowledge. But Jonas Lund doesn’t seem to care about that. He created Selfsurfing, an extension for Chrome that makes your browser… |
March 30th, 2012
PopClip for Mac: An iOS Feature That Lion Forgot
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OS X Lion borrowed several features from iOS, like the Home-Screenish Launchpad and the annoying “natural scrolling,” which many of us have disabled. The necessity of any of those new features is debatable, but developer PilotMoon found an iOS trick that still makes sense in a desktop UI: the contextual… |
March 26th, 2012
Flutter for Mac Lets You Pause and Play Via Hand Gestures, No Kinect Required
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Until today the things we’ve seen that bear name Flutter are plain stupid – one of them intentionally so, but still. A new program for OS X devices is out to change that. Flutter for Mac lets you control playback on iTunes and Spotify simply by raising your hand. You… |
March 13th, 2012
Print A Forest: 100 Documents = 1 Tree
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A lot of offices are going paperless to show that they’re trying to be more green (the good, environmental kind) and eco-friendly. However, there are still many instances where physical copies of documents are still required. |
August 20th, 2011
Nyan Cat Progress Bar Will Have You Shuffling Files All Day
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Are you still addicted to the hypnotic and trippy Nyan Cat? Well now you can have it dancing around your desktop and hear its nyan-tastic theme music every time you transfer or download a file, thanks to Ben Stone and his custom Nyan Cat progress bar.… |
July 11th, 2011
Nec Program Identifies Illegally Copied Videos: Your Move, Pirates
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Japanese IT company NEC claims they have developed “a video content identification technology that detects illegal copies of video content uploaded to the Internet in a matter of seconds.”… I’m not entirely sure how this works, so bear with me on this one. According to the company’s press release, the |
May 7th, 2010
Feedling Feed Reader Puts Feeds on Your Table, Um, Desktop
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Web addicts rejoice: you can now view your feeds right on your desktop. Or should I say right over your desktop. Open source program Feedling lets Windows users pin headlines over their wallpaper. The location, font, colors and update interval of the feeds can be customized.… |
April 28th, 2010
Crewing Mama: Mcdonald’S Japan to Use Nintendo Ds to Train Employees
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Greet the customer! Ask for order! Offer apple pie! According to Nikkei, McDonald’s Japan is developing a Nintendo DS training program for part-time employees. The program is called eSmart…, and will cost the fastfood giant upwards of ¥200,000,000 (approx. $2.2M USD). McDonald’s hopes that the software will cut training |
March 21st, 2010
Google Chrome Os Download, Almost Exactly the Same as the Browser
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Curious and/or impatient techies! An early developer build of Google (Google’s?) Chrome OS – which was just formally announced – has been unleashed on the Internet for those who want to take an early early early peek at what I like to call the BrOSer. From what I’ve read about… |
November 20th, 2009
Nasa Launches Free iPhone App
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Space puns ftw! NASA recently released a free iPhone app that promises a ton of content for space fans, including mission details, videos, images, and twitter feeds. The mission portion is probably the geekiest part of the app, allowing users to read mission details, view launch or arrival countdown clocks,… |
November 17th, 2009
