Want to stay ahead of the Dow Jones? Apparently, the new way to do it is to pay attention to Twitter. A paper from the Universities of Indiana and Manchester called “Twitter Mood Predicts The Stock Market” seems to suggest that the overall mood of the social network is a surprisingly good indicator of where the market will go soon …
Rejected iPhone Radiation App Gets Released Anyways
If radiation gives you the heebie jeebies, it’s a bit too late to panic, because all cell phones emit radiation. You still might want to pay your respects to tawkon, though, a company that recently developed an iPhone app to measure the radiation coming through when you’re yapping away.
Unfortunately, it’s not where you’d …
Google Launches Think Quarterly Magazine
Google UK has released the first issue of a new in-house magazine, entitled Think Quarterly.
The 64-page publication — Google calls it a book — is only available online. Readers can either browse in a Flash-based pseudo magazine format, flipping pages with their mouse, or can read web-optimised versions of each article.
The whole …
Color: A Social-Networking Phone App That Connects to People Around You
Word to the wise: This app is not for people who can’t handle Foursquare. But if you can get past sharing your location to the world (and love to tweet and Facebook with rabid enthusiasm), Color, a social-network-slash-phone-app, is an interesting social network that’s designed to meet people.
Color is basically a smartphone …
WordPress Blogs Play Nice, Become Beautiful on the iPad
Eighteen million WordPress blogs just started looking better. Yesterday, WordPress revealed a new feature, optimizing it for the iPad. Like a magazine, readers can flip back and forth through posts with ease.
The whole thing is powered by HTML 5, using Onswipe. Just like like you’d expect it to, the whole thing utilizes the iPad’s …
TechFast: Happy Birthday OS X, Hacking The EU, Make-up By Panasonic
Happy birthday OS X!
Mac OS X is 10 years old today. The first official release, OS X 10.0, came out on March 24, 2001. And my, hasn’t it grown…
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Happy birthday Harry Houdini!
It’s also escapologist Houdini’s 137th birthday today, and Google is celebrating with an excellent doodle on its home page. How
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Yahoo Launches Real-Time Search Results
Yahoo is launching “Search Direct,” and if you know what “Google Instant” does, you’ll understand the two concepts instantly. Very similar to the Google service, Yahoo’s Search Direct will return an instant, real-time answer to a search query before you can even hit “Enter.”
So Long First-Gen iPad, We Hardly Knew You
Here comes the iPad 2 again, like the world’s smallest, sleekest freight train, and in its wake, a trail of “while supplies last!” ads and deals and ballyhoo touting Apple’s original slate. Get it while it’s not-hot.
Apple’s iPad 2 (see our review, “It’s Still the One”) already debuted in the U.S. on March 11, but it’s still looming …
Retro Handheld Electronic Games Memorialized in Flash
At 28, I’m just old enough to remember an era before Game Boys, when mediocre electronic handheld games were the only way to pass the time while your parents went furniture shopping. Pica Pic, Hipopotam’s tribute to these handheld LCD games, is now destroying my productivity.
Right now, Pica Pic has 17 games to choose from, including …
Apple AirPlay in Your TV? Rumor Has It.
Apple’s modest foray into the living room could get a lot more serious if the company expands its AirPlay service to televisions.
Currently, AirPlay only supports streaming audio for third-party devices. This allows users to play their iTunes libraries through stereo systems from partnering companies, such as Bowers & Wilkins and …
EA Abandons Printed Game Manuals as 3D Paper Printing Debuts
Electronic Arts just got a little greener and its retail footprint a trifle leaner. The world’s largest video games publisher says it’s finally pulling the plug on printed game manuals, making it–not the first, but certainly the largest games publisher to bid those little black-and-white pamphlets sayonara.
They weren’t always as …
Yes, Your Cell Phone Reception is Getting Worse
Do you feel like your calls are dropping more frequently or more of your calls are not connecting? Don’t throw your cell phone on the ground in frustration and start cursing the phone’s poorly manufactured antenna. Studies are showing that your reception — not your equipment — may be the problem.
According to consumer ratings firm …