October 2010

Despite Failure, Microsoft Holds Onto Bing

by Mike Mansell October 30, 2010

In the world of online search engines, Microsoft’s Bing is definitely not unheard of. After coming out in June of 2009, Bing is the forth largest search engine in the world and is used for aproxamately 3.25% of web searches. While this is somewhat of a low number, it is important to consider that in [...]

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Drop It Like It’s Hot. Facebook Acquires Drop.io

by Jeff Weisbein October 29, 2010

Facebook has acquired the file sharing/storage site Drop.io according to a post on the company blog. The service will be shutting down on December 15th, 2010. Yet again, Facebook is acquiring startups for talent, technology, and assets only to leave the startup to die (e.g. Friendfeed) or just to shut it down (e.g. essentially every [...]

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What If You Could Configure Your Own Smartphone?

by Jeff Weisbein October 27, 2010

What if you could configure your own smartphone. You know, the same way you can configure your own Mac or PC. What if you could select how many megapixels your smartphone camera had, what type of flash it used, the amount of internal memory and storage, and the type of wireless (b/g/n) and network technology [...]

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I’ve Seen The Future And AOL Is Still In It.

by Jeff Weisbein October 27, 2010

AOL is currently in the process of not only restructuring the entire company, but also, making an attempt to change advertising on the web. Currently, Google is the dominant force for advertising on the web, they are to put it quite simply, the de facto standard. However, the web is a very dynamic market, especially when it comes [...]

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Remember How Secure Windows 98 Was?

by Jeff Weisbein October 24, 2010

I stumbled across this animated gif file on Reddit today and it reminded me of how secure Windows 98 was. That’s a joke by the way. For those of you who remember Windows 98, I’m sure you remember the super secure the login screen. You know, the one you could easily bypass with a little [...]

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CloudBerry S3 Explorer Review

by Mike Mansell October 24, 2010

I love Amazon’s S3 service and honestly feel that it is the most innovative and intuitive file storage solution that I have ever come across. I say this because S3 has the flexibility to work as a file storage solution and by being paired with Amazon’s CloudFront service has the ability to take on light [...]

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iMovie ’11 Makes Anyone Look Like A Video Editing Genius

by Jeff Weisbein October 23, 2010

When Apple demoed iMovie ’11 at their Back to the Mac event this past Wednesday I will admit I was impressed. As I watched in amazement how easy they made it look to edit videos and make those awesome movie trailers I couldn’t help but think to myself am I just getting sucked into the infamous reality [...]

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What Possible Problems Could The Mac App Store Face?

by Keaton Taylor October 22, 2010

Recently the good ole boys at 1 Infinite Loop announced that in ninety days we will see an App Store for the Mac. All over the internet people were cheering, hugging and discussing world peace (not really) because of this innovation. However, dark times may lie ahead young Mac user. Problem #1: Developers, Developers, Developers, [...]

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Amazon S3 Review

by Mike Mansell October 20, 2010

For a while now, I have been using a Virtual Private Server to store my personal websites and screenshot uploads. While this has been working well for me, the cost of having such a server only to store and serve mostly-static content has seemed like overkill. While companies like Webair have amazingly reasonable pricing on [...]

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Tweetie 2 for Mac Isn’t Dead, Just Being Developed Super Slowly.

by Jeff Weisbein October 20, 2010

Last week we reported that Tweetie for Mac was in fact dead. It seemed to have come straight from the horses mouth, that of course being, Ev Williams (co-founder of Twitter). Not so fast says Loren Brichter, developer of Tweetie and founder of Atebits software which was acquired by Twitter back in April. Now, since the [...]

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