Category Archives: Fun Facts
AutoCAD for Mac!
AutoDesk’s famous software AutoCAD is now available for the Mac operating system. AutoCAD is a drafting tool used by thousands of architects, engineers, landscape architects, interior designers, and many other design disciplines. It is a very powerful tool for designers, … Continue reading
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Apparently, Google Doesn’t Rule the World!
While surfing tech news everywhere today, I came across an article that told me that Yahoo! Mail still is “king” of email, adding 6 digits worth of new accounts monthly, thus, killing Google’s Gmail by about 70K new users per … Continue reading
Windows 7 could make PCs fun. . .
[ Originally published by Wired Magazine | by Brian X Chen | "First Look: Windows 7 Shapes Up as Microsoft’s Best OS Yet" ] Good news, everyone! If you’ve been stuck in a time loop using Windows XP, which is … Continue reading
Facebook just bought the rights to nearly everything you do online. . .
[ Originally published by the Washington Post, as "Facebook Cornering Market on E-Friends: Fight to Own Social Media Heats Up." | by Chadwick Matlin ] Facebook just bought the rights to nearly everything you do online. And it cost them … Continue reading
Marines Ban Twitter, MySpace, Facebook
Originally posted by Noah Shachtman on Wired.com | Marines Ban Twitter, MySpace, Facebook The U.S. Marine Corps has banned Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and other social media sites from its networks, effective immediately. “These internet sites in general are a proven … Continue reading
Revolutionary “Racetrack” Memory in the Works
Soon your computer and electronic gadgets could be smaller, faster, cheaper, more relliable and even greener thanks to a new form of computer memory technology called racetrack. Racetrack memory is currently under development at IBM and will be a vast … Continue reading
No More Shock Treatment for Internet Addicts
The Huffington Post reports that a Chinese hospital has stopped using electric shock therapy to cure Internet addiction. Supposedly, it doesn’t work. Wow. Those results are, well, shocking. | Originally posted at HuffingtonPost.com as “China Shock Therapy On Internet Addicts … Continue reading
Roundup Of Random Neato Flash Thingys
Flash is ubiquitous on the web, and it’s easy to see why: Flash is super cool. Here’s a quick roundup of some random Flashy things from various parts of the interwebs. Desktop Tower Defense It’s a Flash game! Protect your … Continue reading
How to Improve a Room’s Acoustics
Since you are going to have great acoustics after reading this, you should take a Sony ACID or GarageBand class so you have something to jam out to in your sound-perfect room. To sign up for a class see the … Continue reading
DIY Nuclear Disarmament
As you are probably aware, the United States and Russia have agreed to cut their nuclear arsenals by about a quarter (click here to read more). Although this still leaves both with at least one (that’s all it takes, no?), … Continue reading
