Promote a party & crash one with new app
Slumming it around the house because nobody invited you out should be a thing of the past with Where’s the Party at?, a new web app for the iPhone and Android. Conceived by local DJ and producer, Nick Smalling, the app aims not only to help people find nightlife events nearby, but also get them...
Stupid Questions on Yahoo! Answers
Writing has been something I’ve always done. Always. I remember having a typewriter when I was little… It was one of those nice electric ones. It even had a button you could push to correct your mistakes. And I’ll never forget the first time I saw a computer… It was in kindergarten. I was born in...
Geek Chic: Sony Hosts A Jailbreak
This week, Sony made a statement regarding the “jailbreaking” of the code of the Playstation 3. While this is superficially only of interest to the gaming community, the entire court case speaks to an emergent issue surrounding the rights and privileges of any electronics consumer. What rights do we have when we purchase something in...
Geek Chic: iPhone Gets VD
This week saw the thing that iPhone fanatics have been waiting for: the release of a Verizon version of the iPhone. Formerly, the iPhone required use of the AT&T network. Naturally there are people out there – desperate anarchists – that have used the iPhone on other networks before now, but this time it is...
Geek Chic: The Great Firewall of China
There are many ways to counteract tyranny. The American Colonies attacked it with flowery prose, Gandhi proposed a starve-off, and the French – being the French – invented a machine to cut its head off in the first (and last) disassembly line. A group in America known as the Broadcasting Board of Governors has unveiled...
Geek Chic: Wind Pad Goes for The Gold…Standard
While most of the tablet PC industry is trying to go cheaper with their tablets to compete with the iPad and other technology of the same ilk, MSI has decided to go in the opposite direction, with surprisingly successful results. Rather than downgrading everything on their Wind Pad to bring the price and the usability...
Geek Chic: Is Samsung playing iPod’s swan song?
When it comes to mobile music, or mobile media in general, there is usually only one name that will come, unbidden to anyone’s mind: The great and powerful (or perhaps Great and Powerful) iPod. Apple has even gone so far as to try to patent the use of the term Pod. As if they and...
Geek Chic: BlackBerry Torchbearing
I’m a BlackBerry user from way back. I tried the iPhone, and for all the apps it sports, its limited functionality on the AT&T network, as well as its dreadful touchscreen keyboard left me extremely cold. I’d always much preferred the tactile effect that the full QWERTY keyboard gave me, but didn’t enjoy the rollerball...
Geek Chic: Kindle In The New Year
With the holidays firmly behind us, I’m sure we’ve all settled back into our normal routine: Russian roulette in the morning and cheap whiskey in the evenings. If you’re anywhere near as materialistic as I am, you’ve also probably begun to make surreptitious plans to rid yourself of unwanted gifts from your loved ones. Jewelry...
