There’s no shortage of writing apps for the iPad: Take accessibility-angled options like Evernote (free) that allow users to add tags and keep everything organized, or more robust packages like Pages ($9.99) allowing for rich formatting and picture embeds. But the productivity app I’ve come to like the most is Clean Writer, which is …
Amazon Employees Carried Out of 115-Degree Warehouse by Paramedics
Internet retail giant Amazon.com is facing outcry over the revelation that workers at one of its warehouses had to be carried out by paramedics this summer after working in a closed-door environment that reached 115 degrees.
The story was broken by the Morning Call newspaper, which interviewed 20 current and former employees of the …
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Logitech ‘Harmony Link’ Turns iPads into Universal Remotes
The most fully-baked thing about Logitech’s Revue Google TV box from last year wasn’t the Google TV part. It was Harmony Link, Logitech’s technology, drawn from its venerable Harmony line of universal remotes, for controlling an entertainment center full of gadgets from one remote. Now Logitech is readying a stand-alone Harmony …
Study: 18- to 30-Year-Olds Say Internet as Important as Food, Water and Air
Just how important is the internet in your life? If you consider it a fundamental human resource on a level with water, shelter and food, congratulations: You’re not alone. A new Cisco survey has revealed that, across the world, the importance of the internet has grown to genuinely stunning proportions.
The Second Annual Cisco …
Whatever Happened to P2P File Sharing Sites like Kazaa and Morpheus?
I first learned about Napster in my freshman geometry class from a varsity football guy who warmed the bench. Up to that point, I was still lurking in AOL chatrooms to download tracks from moderators and their Comic Sans bots—which, if you think about it—was a really weird and impractical way to get free mp3s.
But Napster changed …
#NoEscapeFrom2012: Twitter to Start Selling Political Advertising
Bad news for those who use social media as a way to escape politics: Twitter is planning to sell political advertising in the run-up to next year’s U.S. election, and five Presidential campaigns are already on board.
The good news is that the advertising won’t take the form of the controversial insertion of tweets within your …
How to Borrow Library Books on Your Kindle
Great news for Amazon Kindle owners. E-book downloads are now available from over 11,000 libraries around the country. Borrowed books sport many of the same features that come along with books purchased from Amazon—synching, notes, highlights—but the books must be found via your local library’s website, not through Amazon’s e-book …
Comcast Extends ‘Low-Income’ Internet Service Nationwide
It’s called ‘Internet Essentials’ and if you have at least one child receiving free school lunches, you may qualify to sign up for what’s essentially cable service provider Comcast’s $9.95-a-month Internet plan. That’s a savings of about $20 a month, since it’s the same plan, feature-wise, as the one everyone else pays $30 a month …
Facebook Changes News Feed to Focus on ‘Top Stories’
Three things, they say, are certain in life: death, taxes, and Facebook redesigns. The social network, notorious for tinkering with its home page, has just introduced changes to the Facebook news feed with an emphasis on “top stories” instead of recent posts.
Facebook users who don’t regularly visit the site will only see these top …
How Will NASA Track the Largest Satellite Crashdown in 30 Years?
There’s a nearly 6-ton big-as-a-bus and pretty much dead climate satellite—the largest in three decades—about to smack uncontrolled into planet Earth. There’s also a chance, albeit a ridiculously small one, that someone could get hit by one of its several dozens pieces made up of titanium, aluminum, steel and beryllium—the biggest …
Everything You Need to Know About the Current State of Digital Comics
If you’ve ever been tempted to start reading comic books via digital distribution, this may have seemed like the perfect month to do so; in addition to DC Comics relaunching its superhero line with simultaneous print and digital releases throughout September, Marvel Comics has also relaunched its “Ultimate” line this month, including a …
Poll Finds Young People Aren’t Bothered by Slurs Used Online
It’s often easy to forget that behind the other side of the computer screen sits a real person with thoughts and feelings. According to a recent Associated Press-MTV poll, most young people between the ages of 14 and 24 think it’s okay to use slurs and derogatory terms as long as it’s done online.
Some slurs like “slut” and …