Oh Wikipedia programmer Brandon Harris, how we’ve become accustomed to your glaring visage, all but commanding us to donate money to Wikipedia with the wild hair and crazy eyes of a modern day Rasputin. Alas, when we leave …
Apps & Web
Google Maps for Android Adds Indoor Maps of Malls, Airports and Stores
Last weekend, I picked up an airport map, hopelessly lost and wandering around the terminals. If only I had the latest version of Google Maps (and data roaming, but I digress).
In an update to the application for Android, Google is unrolling a new indoor mapping feature that reveals floor plans for airports, shopping malls and other …
“I'm the first to admit that we've made a bunch of mistakes.”
College Student Can’t Afford iPad for Girlfriend, Builds One Instead
Wei Xinlong couldn’t afford an iPad for his girlfriend, so he did the next best thing—built one himself. According to China Daily, Wei made the homemade tablet with secondhand laptop parts and a touchscreen and battery that he bought online.
The entire thing cost 500 yuan (around $78) and took him 10 days to build from information …
iPhone Tip: Get Home Screen Widgets for Quick Settings Tweaks [UPDATE]
The iPhone doesn’t do widgets, at least not officially. But thanks to developer Jeff Broderick, iPhone users can now add settings widgets to their home screens, providing shortcuts to airplane mode, brightness, Bluetooth and …
Top Tuesday Tech Deals
It’s Tuesday! Time for some hand-picked gadget deals…
Facebook On Track for an IPO Next Year?
And just like that, everyone’s Newsfeed was cluttered with murmurings about how they need to buy Facebook stock now. According to the Wall Street Journal, Facebook is currently targeting its initial public offering launch for
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The 10 Coolest Skyrim Mods
If you’re playing the console version of Skyrim, I’m afraid this story isn’t for you, or rather it is, if only to illustrate how much cooler playing Skyrim on a PC can be. Here’s a look at 10 of the best reasons, by way of some …
Man Hacks Siri to Start His Car
Is there anything Siri can’t do (besides recognize Scottish accents)? Providing further proof that one day we’ll rely on our smartphones for just about everything, developer Brandon Fiquett hacked Siri to work with the Viper SmartStart system in his Acura TL, meaning he can start and stop his engine via voice command, as well as pop the …
The Best Cyber Monday Tech Deals We’ve Found (So Far)
Welcome to Cyber Monday 2011, another day of manic shopping madness! This one’s supposed to break last year’s record, if it matters, just like Black Friday apparently did (by as much as 26%) last week. Still shaking off Black …
Google’s iPad App: Almost Chrome, and Trouble for Apple
Google has earned a reputation of late for releasing troubled iOS apps. Gmail was so buggy in its initial state that Google had to pull it from the App Store. Google+ was temperamental too, and even now it lags behind its Android …
Ride the Giant, Inflatable Ant-Roach Robot
What would it look like if some mad Dr. Moreau combined an anteater, a cockroach and a bounce house? You’d get the Ant-Roach, the 15-foot inflatable walking robot.
It was developed by Otherlab in San Francisco, a small lab that has done some pretty cool things with what it calls “pneubotics,” including this inflatable robotic arm. The …