September 3, 2009
OS market share stats
Windows 7 is not yet officially out, but it nearly has the market share of linux. [table id=2]
September 1, 2009
Online Backup Unlimited for $5 per month
We all know how important it is to backup our computers, but studies consistently show that most computer users — even those that know better — don’t. As Internet connections get faster and storage becomes less expensive, online backup services like Backblaze, Mozy and Carbonite have stepped-in to help consumers back up their data. Not […]
September 1, 2009
Dropbox
Would you like to make your life easier? Wouldn’t it be nice to have all your files synchronised over your Mac, PC, Linux and web? Being able to share files without sending emails and so? Well a guy like me would use webDAV for that, but there is a particular commercial tool which looks great: […]
September 1, 2009
Snow Leopard upgrading
Don’t let Apple’s marketing enchant you – upgrading to Snow Leopard isn’t exactly the hassle-free affair that the Mac maker wants you to believe. You must pick the right cat for you, identify incompatible apps, plan your upgrade path, and customize the installer. Enter Geek’s guide to installing Snow Leopard, the definite resource for Mac […]
August 31, 2009
7s SevenSnap entertainment shopping for your iPhone
Finally, it is online – the sneak preview explaining the idea behind SevenSnap. Take a look at the guide. SevenSnap in a nutshell: Every 60 minutes, we are offering you a product from the realms of consumer electronics, travel and leisure activities. To see the price of the product, which drops every second, you have […]
August 28, 2009
Augmented Reality Navigation System
Mobilizy GmbH reveals a preview of it’s augmented reality navigation system, the first fully functional mobile AR navigation system available for the Android platform. Wikitude Drive was developed by the Mobilizy Research & Development group in Salzburg, Austria, to satisfy the curiosity of the developers to see if it was feasible to combine real-time navigation […]
August 28, 2009
sixthsense project: integrating information with the real world
‘SixthSense‘ is a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information and lets us use natural hand gestures to interact with that information. The SixthSense prototype is comprised of a pocket projector, a mirror and a camera. The hardware components are coupled in a pendant like mobile wearable device. Both […]
August 27, 2009
WebOS (huevos in Spanish): Your computer in the cloud
We are all day listening to the tech news and they talk about the future, Google making this new Google OS that will be open source and will be basically in the cloud. Amazon offering cloud space and processing power. Are we going to live in the cloud in the near future? Some people have […]
August 26, 2009
Gruml: A Google Reader App For Your Mac Desktop
Google Reader is a very useful service for consuming your news feeds (assuming you still use RSS), but it lives in the browser, which means it doesn’t the responsiveness and polish of a desktop app. For all those Mac users out there looking for the best of both worlds, I present to you Gruml, a new desktop […]
August 26, 2009
First iPhone Augmented Reality App Appears Live in App Store
French app development shop PresseLite appears to have the first Augmented Reality (AR) supporting iPhone app live in the iTunes store, though we don’t know how they did it. It’s called Metro Paris Subway, and while the app isn’t new, it released a new version last week that added an AR overlay that displays information […]
August 24, 2009
Snow Leopard Has Arrived, Shipping 28th of August
Snow Leopard is nearly here. You can already pre-order it. Click on the link to see what is new. http://www.apple.com/macosx/refinements/