Your Guide Through the Tech World
January 10th, 2012 by admin | Tags: Cheap Web Hosting
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Content-rich blogs have a strong showing on Google search results because they’re packed with the stuff Google loves: keywords. Because blogs are so word-oriented, they have a good chance of appearing near the top of search results, but they aren’t always big money-makers for bloggers. Tak Find more information…
January 8th, 2012 by Jackson Walton | Tags: App
By on January 10, 2012 in Applications
I came across MobDB the other day thanks to one of those beta lists that I completely forget the name of. When I remember, Ill update the post. Anyway this one really caught my eye as I think I could seriously use it for a number of applications.
Lets take a step back. Whats the one problem every single interactive mobile application has? At some point youre going to want it to hook into a back-end database, right? To store everything.
January 7th, 2012 by Lola Lindeman | Tags: 2011, Mobile Phones
2011 has witnessed the fast and great development of electronic products, especially in mobile phones and portable devices like various tablets. Meanwhile, as the fast growing of electronic product market, various wonderful software programs and hardware devices are created to make these products more user-friendly. Today, I would like to share the Top 10 Best Paid Android Apps of 2011 with all of you guys. These paid Android apps are mostly useful and quite cheap for you to get for your Android mobile phones and tablets. In this year’s list, apps that make your smartphone even smarter, great games and plenty of entertainment options for your buck. C
January 5th, 2012 by Brodie Boyce | Tags: Board, Board Awesomeness
The team over at Chaotic Moon based in Austin, Texas specialize in having as much fun with technology as they possibly can, hence the creation of the Board of Awesomeness (BOA). Its an electric longboard that is controlled using motion picked up by a Kinect and then transmitted to an as yet unreleased Samsung Windows 8 tablet it uses for a brain. The result is one of the coolest, and probably most dangerous, skateboard rides we have seen.
Capable of speeds of up to 32mph, the BOA combines video and speech recognition with location and accelerometer data to allow you to control the speed at which the board travels.
January 2nd, 2012 by Lola Lindeman |
The first software that runs when a computer is turned on is the “Basic Input/Output System” (BIOS). This fundamental system software initializes the hardware before the operating system starts. Since it works at such a low level, before other security protections are in place, unauthorized changes — malicious or accidental — to the BIOS can cause a significant security threat.
“Unauthorized changes in the BIOS could allow or be part of a sophisticated, targeted attack on an organization, allowing an attacker to infiltrate an organization’s systems or disrupt their operations,” said Andrew Regenscheid, one of the authors of BIOS Integrity Measurement Guidelines (NIST Special Publication 800-155).
January 2nd, 2012 by Jackson Walton | Tags: Bottle
Our second bottle related news piece of the day – who would have thought we’d ever be able to say that? – comes from DIY Photography. They have a tutorial up on how to create a snoot using a 20oz. bottle of Coke; or any other soft drink.The assembly of this snoot is quick, easy, and requires almost zero know-how. As long as you can cut a plastic bottle and use tape, you should be able to put it together pretty simply. It’s an easy project and a great way to experiment a bit with light.The spread from the Coke bottle snoot is going to be incredibly tight because of the small opening for light. Find more information…