I stumbled onto this thanks to my colleague Jenny, who posted it for Geek.com, and sure enough, it’s as beautiful as she describes. The video is actually a time-lapse shot over the course of a year by astrophotographer Daniel Lopez…
The Meta-Watch Wants to Be Your Smartphone Buddy
Over at Google I/O last week, one of the interesting but under-reported items on the event floor was the Meta Watch from FOSSIL. The folks over at This Is My Next managed to play with it a bit, and in…
Facebook Admits to Hiring a PR Firm to Smear Google
When I heard this story, I was more saddened than anything else. Frankly, there’s no love lost between Facebook and I – I don’t find the service quite the panacea communications platform that so many other people do, but I…
Play Ghost in the Shell…with Kinect!
I’m a big fan of Danny Choo and the way he’s managed to let nothing stop him from making his passion his life and career, and one of the things he does regularly is work on a televison show called…
TwitPic Changes Terms, Now Owns Your Photos
TwitPic, one of the most popular image hosting services that many users use alongside Twitter, recently changed its terms of service in probably the most horrible way possible: they now have rights to use and re-use the photos that you…
PC Mag’s Biggest Tech Pet Peeves
The folks at PC Mag sat down and got busy thinking about what some of their biggest pet peeves around technology were. Horrible autocorrect? Check. People trying to multi-touch all over your laptop or desktop display? Check. People who want…
CTRL+O Bottle Opener is Geeky Cool
I actually have a bottle opener attached to my wallet (you never know when you’ll need one) but if I didn’t, I’d consider this: a CTRL+O bottle opener, straight from the folks at Art Lebdev, known world-wide for awesomely geeky…
Starbuck and Starbuck in Starbucks
Ladies and Gentlemen, your moment of zen. Original is at the link below. I had no idea they were both such cigar fans! [ Buzzfeed :: Starbuck and Starbuck in Starbucks ]
Microsoft Buys Skype
Everyone’s been talking about this story today, but I think it’s an incredible one. In what’s clearly the biggest purchase or acquisition the company has ever made, Microsoft has weighed in and purchased Skype outright for $8.5 billion. That’s a…
How to Build a Powerful Portable Gaming Desktop PC
Now here’s a project that I think I could take on – not because I need another computer, but mostly because I could use having a gaming PC that doesn’t take up as much space as my current tower does.…