Giving you yet another reason that you never need to go outside, Google Earth has added live weather. It’s accessible by activating the “clouds” layer inside the program and shows rain and/or snow wherever it may be happening around North America or Europe. Currently in Boston where I live, it’s… not doing either of those things.
If …
Well this is interesting. Back in April, Sprint caused a bit of buzz by promoting an iPad case that converted a built-in superfast 4G data connection into a Wi-Fi signal for use with up to five devices. The idea was that you could plop your Wi-Fi iPad into the case and use Sprint’s connection for data on the go.
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Within a year, IP (internet protocol) addresses are expected to run out. Each IP address is like a unique phone number assigned to whatever device you’re using to connect to the internet. Without a valid IP address you won’t be able to connect to the outside world, so they’re important. But now that our computers, mobile devices, cars …
How many of you believed we’d live in a world where our handwriting would become a novelty? (Show of hands?) E-mail is uniform and impersonal, and a handwritten note doesn’t meet today’s instant gratification standard of messaging. But melding the two? Now, that’s enticing. PilotHandwriting.com allows you to turn your handwriting into a …
From the brain trust behind 2009’s interactive musical play toy YouTube Piano comes YouTube Radio, a medley of YouTube-themed ditties.
Eight stations cover the music spectrum and aside from my inability to translate cat, each spits out YouTube centric lyrics in different musical styles. Hate jazz? Just change the station by clicking …
If you’re a Firefox user and iPhone owner who’s longed for a way to synchronize the data between your computer’s web browser and your mobile device, Mozilla’s new Firefox Home project may be right up your alley.
The system consists of the Firefox Sync add-on running in your Firefox browser and the iPhone-specific Firefox Home app. …
Last week Twitter announced @earlybird, a promo stream for the company’s advertising partners. The account will dole out exclusive deals to its followers, as given by said ad partners and deal sites Groupon and Gilt. The first deal was announced this morning and after all the talk, frankly, it was a bit of a let down. The offer, good at …
A new viral marketing campaign has hit the web, ticking through a countdown and threatening an invasion.
2ndmass, a new site that displays nothing but a message taped to a window: “Went to fight! Survival is our destiny” What does it mean? Who knows. But, if you scroll over the “G” in “fight,” a countdown pops up on the top of the …
Though none of us in this lifetime are likely to take actual tours of Mars (unless you’re part of the secret government that plans to move there when the end of the world comes—lucky jerks), Microsoft and NASA have a pretty good virtual tour going with the WorldWide Telescope software used to navigate the stars from the comfort of your …
Google is attempting to make Android app creation accessible to the masses with “App Inventor,” which is software that enables Android application development without the need to actually write code.
The basic premise is that App Inventor provides a visual programming interface with pre-built “blocks” that are dragged and dropped …
Sweet fancy Moses, YouTube can now display full-resolution video shot on 4K cameras from the likes of Red Digital Cinema. That kind of footage is a bit rare, as YouTube’s demo playlist only contains four clips, and as the blog post suggests, “the ideal screen size for a 4K video is 25 feet.”
The resolution is 4096×3072, which is …
