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Everybody Wins When Google Teaches Your Family About Technology
Ah, the holidays. A time spent with family opening presents, reminiscing, sharing, and diagnosing any computer problems. Okay, so maybe that last one isn’t in the normal holiday routine for most people, but for all the tech gurus out there it is all too familiar. If you are like me, the holiday season is spent diagnosing…
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One Small Step for Android, One Giant Leap for Synthetic Robotic Organisms
You might remember that we gave away some pretty sweet limited edition Android collectibles a few months ago. As it turns out, these Androids had a few buddies that recently took a trip to the upper stratosphere (about 100,000 feet above the Earth’s surface) to take part in a research experiment by Google. A team…
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Easily Share Photos this Holiday Season with Min.us
It’s very likely you will be surrounded by loved ones with itchy camera trigger fingers this Christmas. The amount of picture-taking will be incalculable, as everyone is locked and loaded with gigabytes to spare on their cameras. But after the party is over, and the ‘awkward smile’ pictures are removed, you will be left with…
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How to Close Pidgin Chat Windows with the Escape Key
Pidgin (formerly known as Gaim) is a free, multi-protocol instant messaging application for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Pidgin is highly customizable and supports popular instant messaging networks like Google Talk, MSN/Windows Live Messenger, AIM, Yahoo! Chat, and can connect to services like Facebook Chat through plugins (or directly through the XMPP messaging protocol). In recent…
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A Return to Old-School Gaming: Emulators and Retro Games
Back in the early ’90s things were different and, in some ways, better. MC Hammer was lighting up MTV with inflatable pants, Compuserve 3.25″ diskettes were confusing households across the US, and my family’s 66 MHz Pentium PC was a $3500 fiery hellbeast that made the Pentagon as nervous as current-day Wikileaks. And the video…
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How I Used the Internet to Save Time and Money While Shopping
As I believe I’ve stated on most (if not all) of my past articles, I am kind of lazy. I did not line up at 2:30am on Black Friday in hopes of scoring huge deals. In addition to that, I am in college, therefore I am, let’s say, not as financially well off as I…
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Holiday Gift Guide: The Gifts You Want (But Can’t Necessarily Afford)
As Mick Jagger once said, “You can’t always get what you want.” And around Christmas time, this statement holds especially true. In a time of giving and sharing, Christmas is always about making a personal wish list, checking it twice, and waiting for the 25th to roll around to see what items can be crossed…
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Net Neutrality: A Lose-Lose Situation?
Much has been made about net neutrality recently. But what does “net neutrality” really mean? In a nutshell, it’s the idea that Internet Service Providers should not be allowed to discriminate against any type of traffic on their networks, for any reason. While it has many more implications, it has become a hot topic of…
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Holiday Gift Guide: Something For The Whole Family Edition
For some, holiday shopping is a joyous and fun task, but for others it’s a difficult one. A lot of the difficulty stems from not knowing what to get someone. Being a person that loves shopping, let me give you a little guidance for buying gifts for the whole family. Gift Ideas for Grandparents My…