While Twitter had an amazing idea on its hands when it first launched, one thing it lacked was any way to interact with it beyond its somewhat clunky Web interface.  Luckily the company had the foresight to release a rather robust API (Application Programming Interface), and the third-party applications began coming out at a frightening

There is no doubt that I am an opinionated person, just looking at my body of work here at Techno Buffalo over the past six months will tell you that.  And I’m even willing to admit that I don’t always get it right, no one can have a perfect batting average, but I’m also not usually a

It seems no matter how you feel about all of the recent changes at Facebook, if you want information to be on your profile, you’re going to have to go along with them. People love customizing their Facebook profiles with quotes, information about themselves and so on, but that is rapidly coming to an end

Perhaps “abandoned” is too strong of a word, but it sure does seem that Apple’s interest in its flagship Mac product line seems to be waning somewhat. Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard was released on Aug. 28, 2009, and while that really isn’t all that long ago, have you noticed we haven’t heard anything

While we know you love TechnoBuffalo, we also understand that every once in a while you are going to wander off and look at other sites around the Web.  We promise our feelings won’t be hurt (he says as he fights back the tears), but with the number of tech sites out there it can

Go ahead and admit it.  You knew when Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced that the iPad Wi-Fi + 3G was going to have unlimited 3G with AT&T for $30 a month that there would be issues.  How could there not be?  We are talking about AT&T after all, and that company’s track record with 3G

On April 23rd, the DVD rental kiosk company Redbox announced that it had signed deals with Universal Studios Home Video and 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment to withhold films from both studios from its system until 28 days after the on sale date.  The first film from Universal under this deal is It’s Complicated, and

It seems that just about every device out there is getting a camera built into it these days.  Some of them are run-of-the-mill lenses that won’t capture anything but the most basic of pictures, like the iPhone’s camera has been doing since day one.  The problem is that these cameras are slowly improving, and you

One of the key things Steve Jobs mentioned during the unveiling of the iPad was how people who had used the iPhone and/or iPod Touch would know how to use the iPad instantly.  This is a great selling point as it allows Apple to sell huge numbers of the device even to those people who

A report was released this past week that the Barnes & Noble Nook sold 53 percent of the e-readers for the month of March, bypassing Amazon’s Kindle for the first time.  While most articles spawned by the Digitimes report focused on that aspect of the story, the part that got me was the projection that

As you cruise around the Web, blogs and Twitter, you run into a billion acronyms, and it is honestly impossible to know them all, but it can also be embarrassing to ask what some of them mean at times because you don’t want to come off as not being “in the know.”  So, we’ve made a short

It isn’t often that technology bloggers get taken totally off guard, but just such an event has happened with HP acquiring Palm. As recently as last week, Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein was claiming that Palm would attempt to stay independent, but there was talk that buyers were reviewing a possible purchase and quickly backing away.

Opera is a Web browser that has been available to the public since 1996, and while it is quite popular on mobile devices, it has never exactly been huge in the desktop market. Browser market share data for March of this year shows Opera as only commanding 2.37 percent of the market, considering its age,

As the various states of the United States face increasingly large budget short falls, they are trying to come up with any measure they can to collect more tax dollars.  One of the biggest tactics for some time now has been to try to find a way to tax sales on Amazon. Due to the

You’ve surfed every website known to man.  You’ve seen your fill of YouTube videos of people doing stupid things.  And worst of all?  You are bored with playing Tetris online.  What can you possibly do to kill off your boredom, you know, other than going outside and experiencing the world?  Here are five suggestions of

One of the most abused words in the English language has to be “monopoly” and all of its derivatives.  Any time someone complains about a company, it’s inevitable that someone will say “It’s a monopoly, and it’s evil!  Something has to be done about it!” This comes up because a group called Consumer Watchdog has decided

While there have always been fanboy wars between Microsoft and Apple users, as of late it seems that the dislike/hatred of Apple has been growing more and more.  Everything the company does seems to illicit a slew of blog posts about how this is just another typical move for the company, or this is the

It’s hard to believe, but this Aug. will mark the 15th anniversary of Internet Explorer 1.0 being released.  Has it really been that long since IE entered our lives? IE 1 released back on Aug. 16th, 1995, and while you would think the way Microsoft works on everything themselves now, that IE had started life

Some might say it’s like comparing apples and oranges as one is a social network, and one is not, but it’s still interesting to see Facebook is not the biggest thing out there despite what that company might like to have you think. Facebook has a big habit of going around reminding everyone that it

If you thought the HD-DVD/Blu-ray was messy, you should have been around for Betamax/VHS! Launched May 10, 1975, Sony’s Betamax was the first affordable home recording system.  VHS, which eventually won the format war despite its bulkier physical format, was introduced in Oct. 1977. Many people still feel Beta was the superior of the two formats,

It has become fairly common for hardware companies to release product refreshes on some sort of schedule.  Just look at Apple, you can just about set your watch by its product updates (no matter how much it may like to act like it’s going to surprise us with the release schedule), and it constantly keeps

Rumors have been circulating for a while now that Palm has retained banking advisers to assist with the possible sale of Palm to another company. The once king of the PDA market and a pioneer in the smartphone sector has fallen on hard times with its Palm Pre and Palm Pixi failing to live up

Remember Blippy?  This is the social networking site that allows you to enter your credit card info, and then whenever you make a purchase with that card it gets posted to the site for all of your friends to see.  Once the purchases are on the site your friends can leave comments about what you

Der Untergang, better known as Downfall in the United States, was a film released in 2004 in Germany about the final days of Adolf Hitler as it was becoming overwhelmingly obvious that he was losing World War II.  One scene in particular where Hitler flies into a tirade about how his plans have failed has

The old saying of when, “it rains, it pours” proved to be true over the past week as Twitter seemed to kick new releases into high gear.  For the past year or so, the popular microblogging service seemed to be fairly fixated on increasing its stability with new releases and announcements being few and far