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Up until today I had sort of discounted Chrome OS as a potential game changer, but after spending an hour watching their keynote tonight I can honestly say it is quite amazing to look at all of the pieces of the puzzle come together in a multi-billion dollar chess match that has Apple and Microsoft lined up against them. But
I sometimes think that between KickStarter and Etsy anything that can be imagined, will become reality... Today's funding opportunity from KickStarter are B-Squares, a 3D modular solar powered energy system that connects up using magnetic and electrical contacts. There's solar cell square, a rechargeable battery square, an Arduino square, an LED square and iPhone charger square. The more squares you
Today Microsoft announced that it had purchased Skype for 8.5 billion dollars. Skype will be run as a separate business division with in Microsoft and its CEO Tony Bates will report directly to Steve Balmer Microsoft's CEO. For those of you that are not familiar with Skype it is a soft ware application that allows users to make voice calls
The UK's Information Commissioner's Office today announced that it was fining Andrew Crossley of the now defunct ACS Law £1,000 for failing to keep secure sensitive personal information about 6,000 people. The Information Commissioner, Christopher Graham, was particularly critical saying, "The security measures ACS Law had in place were barely fit for purpose in a person’s home environment, let alone
The hardest part of the show is stopping when I have so much to share, but I am going to do my best to keep the show at 70 minutes. The number of you watching is proving keeping the format tight is good for audience growth. On tonight's show, I have a pretty strong message for the Mac users so
The Amazon Cloud Player has come to various iOS devices including the iPad and iPhone, however it is awkward to use and needs some work. This post assumes that you have already set up the Amazon cloud player on your computer and have uploaded some music to it. Once you have done that than you can access the Amazon Cloud
Even in the absence of any real musical ability, sometimes it's fun to bash away on a drum kit. Most of the various application catalogues for smartphones have little virtual drum kits so you can drum away whenever the urge to jam comes on. The HP App Catalog for WebOS (that's the Palm Pre series, the Pixi and the Veer) has a
I am happy to announce that we are now publishing 5 shows a week, here at Geek News Central. We are still on the hunt for 2-3 more new show host that want to bring additional shows to the network so if your ready to jump on-board drop me a line. My hope is by the end of 2011 that
I’ve been playing around with video recording and editing for a number of years. One constant with video editing that can always be counted on is that it’s editing video is time-consuming. That is all about to change. Enter Videolicious, a FREE video app for iOS. This is an amazing app. Videolicious makes it possible to produce short (up to
A few days ago I had a DirecTV HR23 box go belly-up. I awoke one morning to the smell of melted plastic. I didn't open the box, so I don't know what went wrong, but it was obviously something bad. Despite having no LED lights on the front panel there was still power - although it wouldn't even try to
As Todd discussed on his last podcast, LastPass have been very open regarding a possible data breach in their systems. I think they did the right thing but their servers were simply crushed by the rush of people changing their master passwords. But I'm not writing to chastise LastPass. On the contrary, I'm here to admit to being guilty of
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