Daily Archives: June 26, 2011

Cartoon: May the Source Be With You

June 26, 2011
Cartoon: May the Source Be With You

The other day, I was at a local coffee shop trying to troubleshoot a page on my cartoon site. I didn’t have my trusty laptop with me, but I no worries — I had my iPad, which is practically the same thing, right? Until I opened the page in Safari, and had a look...

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Does Creative Commons make us more creative?

June 26, 2011
Does Creative Commons make us more creative?

The photo accompanying this article has nothing to do with the actual written content. Sort of. It’s a photo that I came across on Flickr, taken by Ben Fredericson, and being a sucker for bokeh I saved it on my computer. The photo was posted on Flickr under a Creative Commons license, allowing others...

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Check out the T-Shirt that charges your phone on the go

June 26, 2011

So when can I get one? Article source: TNW http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheNextWeb/~3/r_t8kGIcVck/

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Top 10 Ways To Save Money With Your Smartphone

June 26, 2011
Top 10 Ways To Save Money With Your Smartphone

Image: Lifehacker Adam Dachis Five Best Desktop Calendaring Applications Top 10 Ways to Save Money with Your Smartphone Basics of Photography: Editing Images in Post Your smartphone might be an expensive pocket computer, but it can help make up for its high price tag by cutting costs in other ways. Here are our top...

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Telcos could be the key to Twitter’s revenue model

June 26, 2011
Telcos could be the key to Twitter’s revenue model

At WWDC this year Apple and Twitter announced a new partnership to bring Twitter to iOS devices. While this is impressive, the total number of new iOS users is dwarfed by the number of people who use feature phones worldwide. So how will services like Twitter bridge this opportunity gap? The answer may be...

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SKYPE SCANDAL: Here’s How Big Bad Private-Equity Firm Silver Lake Sees The Situation

June 26, 2011
SKYPE SCANDAL: Here’s How Big Bad Private-Equity Firm Silver Lake Sees The Situation

Glenn Hutchins, CEO and founder, Silver Lake See Also: Skype Fires A Bunch Of Execs To Reduce Their Payouts Here’s What Really Happened With Those Skype Firings Google To Unleash An Army Of Developers Against Skype Over the past week, a minor scandal has emerged in Silicon Valley over the way a bunch of...

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How Consumer Technology & User-Generated Content Are Changing Ed-Tech

June 26, 2011
How Consumer Technology & User-Generated Content Are Changing Ed-Tech

I’m at the ISTE 2011 conference this week, which purports to be the premier ed-tech conference in the world. I’ll be reporting on the latest-and-greatest in education technology – in new technology innovations as well as how these tools are being incorporated by teachers and students into the classroom. The big names in the...

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Wikipedia Is Adding A Love Button

June 26, 2011
Wikipedia Is Adding A Love Button

Image: Ames2880 via Flickr Wikipedia is adding a “WikiLove” button to its pages, it has announced.  The way it works is that Wikipedia users can send each other whimsical or nice badges of appreciations and messages. The reason is that being looked down upon by other editors or not feeling appreciated for their contribution...

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50 days of Lulz: The life and times of LulzSec

June 26, 2011
50 days of Lulz: The life and times of LulzSec

It’s been a whirlwind few months for LulzSecurity (LulzSec), bursting onto the tech scene with the high-profile hacks of US TV network Fox, moving on to compound Japanese electronics giant Sony, taunting its detractors as they sought to expose row after row of SQL database entries in high-profile government and agency websites. On Saturday,...

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Suddenly, Facebook Shuts Down Apps Left And Right

June 26, 2011
Suddenly, Facebook Shuts Down Apps Left And Right

Facebook has started shutting down apps with tens of thousands of active users left and right, AllFacebook writes. The reason is Facebook didn’t really police these “small” apps before and now has rolled out an algorithm that automatically shuts them down if they post too often to users’ walls, etc. The problem is that...

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