Have you ever seen something legitimately newsworthy and wished there was a reporter around to get the facts correct? Do you wish there was a way you could give feedback to companies easily? Do you love sharing great deals you find with your friends as soon as you encounter them? Now, there is a smartphone app that meets all of those needs! That app is Stringfly.
Good language software may be very hard to find. Even so, if you are visiting China there are many options for software that teaches you Chinese. To learn Japanese, there is Jibbigo. If you are planning a trip to the Orient, why not continue your trip through Asia and visit Russia? Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia has opened up to tourists from the United States and the country has much to offer travelers there. However, unlike traveling to Europe, visitors to Russia need to have at least a rudimentary knowledge of the Russian language. For that, there is Russian Complete Edition software! Read more »
There are a so many exceptionally cool USB flash drives. As USB flash drives evolve from the standard USB 2.0 to USB 3.0, it is interesting to see how companies are promoting the newer technology. As usual, some companies are highlighting fun and collectability with their new USB 3.0 flash drives. Corsair, the manufacturer of durable computer accessories, is going an entirely different way. With the Flash Survivor USB 3.0 32 GB USB Flash Drive, the company has created the most solid, damage-resistant USB flash drive yet! Read more »
Anyone who has visited a historical site or virtually any tourist destination has seen graffiti. At many destinations, unsightly graffiti covers most available surface. Often, graffiti is just names and dates from former visitors, but it can be much more than that. Some people even write or carve poems or song lyrics into whatever space they find available. Usually there are several visible layers of the graffiti and more underneath. It can be very tempting to add your own mark to that wall, bench, or tree, but what if there was a better, legal, way to leave a piece of yourself behind? Read more »
2011 saw some real changes in the world on online video streaming. As the Cloud rose to prominence thanks to Apple and it advertising juggernaut, some of the traditional leaders in home media found themselves in drastically new positions. Netflix, for example, was quick to reinvent itself as a digital streaming company, but in the process of price hikes and trying to distance themselves from their DVD subscribers, the company had a much more erratic year than many in the industry thought they would. With Netflix faltering, Amazon.com was able to make significant strides in the digital video streaming market. Amazon.com now has a service called Amazon Prime that allows members to stream unlimited videos and receive free two-day shipping on all orders, for only $79 for a year. Amazon Prime’s video streaming service is now a very cool way to get your movies and television programs on your computer.
In case you have not yet encountered it, Apple Computers currently has a product available called the Apple TV. Despite what you might think from the product’s name, it is not a physical television. Instead, Apple TV is a media-streaming device that connects to a television. Apple released the first incarnation of Apple TV in 2007. The current iteration of Apple TV was released by Apple Computers in 2010 and is more popular and much smaller. Since then, the design and basic capabilities of the Apple TV device have stayed the same, with only incremental updates over the last two years.
GitHub has become the primary website for democratic open source coding. Open source coding, simply put, is the principle that many programmers work under in which they freely give away their programs and source code (basic programming language) to anyone who wants to use it. Open source software is quite common, though you may not know a program is open source if you are user, as opposed to a programmer. The Android operating system is a well-known open source program. Google allows programmers to access the root code and write new programs for Android, which makes it open source. By contrast, programmers who want to write applications for Windows must to access the source code and sign a contract for the right to use the proprietary code.
There are billions of pages on the Internet and millions of things to do on those pages. Among other things, you can chat with people across the globe, learn about new computer support issues, write blogs about your favorite subjects, or watch streaming movies. So why would we ever run out of things to do online? For those who face the overwhelming choices the Internet offers with a profound sense of indecision or who enjoy the thrill of discovery, there is StumbleUpon.
We are using our smartphones less and less for actual phone calls and more for mobile web browsing, text messaging, video chats, and apps. This implies that we do not like calling people anymore, not when it is far easier to simply text them or pull up a website. Of course, that applies to ordering takeout food as well.
Have you ever wanted a computer that was just the bare minimum, without all the extras? Did you ever think you would like to learn computer programming? Would you like a computer, but do not have the hundreds of dollars to buy one? If any of those situations apply to you, then you may want to consider the Raspberry Pi.