By Sean P. Aune |
On June 7th Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone 4, and the tech blogosphere went wild, covering every little nuance of the latest smartphone from Apple. At some point during the day, I’m not really sure when, Microsoft got the bright idea to make a big announcement also…
By Sean P. Aune |
Google Voice has had a sordid past. Starting life as a startup named GrandCentral in 2005, Google purchased it 2007, and then let it sit pretty much dormant until it was re-branded as Google Voice in 2009. Then came all of the hoopla over Apple…
By Sean P. Aune |
Skype has become one of those applications that it seems just about everyone has. We all have at least one instant messaging program, one Web browser at minimum and then we have Skype. It’s a difficult program to resist. Even with so many other services…
By Sean P. Aune |
Another month, another loss for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. About the only good thing that can be said about the month of May for Internet Explorer’s marketshare is that it slowed its usual decline by a bit, but it still lost some ground. Here’s the chart…
By Sean P. Aune |
File sizes are steadily getting bigger, and e-mailing them to someone is not always the most optimal way, or even possible at times. So, what do you do? Well, short of getting a Web hosting account, you can use a a service such as TransferBigFiles.com…
By Sean P. Aune |
Who doesn’t like to listen to a little bit of music as they work or study? Over the past few years streaming music sites have popped up like weeds all over the Internet, but sometimes you just want to sit back, set the “station” and…
By Sean P. Aune |
It seems that even though YouTube is not finding much success with its rental store for its own wares, that isn’t stopping the leading online video site from attempting to roll the idea out to all of its content creators. Hunter Walk, head of product…
By Sean P. Aune |
Little by little, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer is losing its market share. While the losses aren’t anything huge, the numbers for April show that it has hit an all time low for any modern version of the browser. It is now back in the range of…
By Sean P. Aune |
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),…
By Sean P. Aune |
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…
By Sean P. Aune |
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…
By Sean P. Aune |
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…
By Sean P. Aune |
When Firefox 1.0 arrived on the browser scene in Nov. 2004, people went nuts for it. It was light-weight, it didn’t gobble up resources and, most importantly to a lot of people, it wasn’t made by Microsoft. It was fast and nimble, and people loved…
By Sean P. Aune |
“This Site Is Best Viewed Using Such-And-Such Browser.” We’ve all seen that message at one time or another while cruising around the Web, but have you ever stopped to wonder why that is? A browser is just a browser, right? The code is code, but…
By Sean P. Aune |
After years of speculation that Twitter must be planning something massively awesome to make money if they were taking this long to come up with a plan, they have completely let their users down with the most mundane plan it possibly could have come up…
By Sean P. Aune |
With tablets coming at us left and right now in the wake of the iPad, applications are very much at the forethought of the tech world again. Applications have certainly been a revolution in the world of the smartphones, but can it do the same…
By Sean P. Aune |
It seems the fact that Apple’s iPad tablet not supporting Flash has made the Internet file player one of the most talked about aspect of Web development ever. Even people that have never given any thought to what makes certain advertisements, videos and games work…
By Sean P. Aune |
No matter how fast your Internet connection may be, you will still encounter pages that don’t load as quickly as you would like due to coding problems, too much Flash or any other handful of problems. These Firefox plugins will help you load your pages…
By Sean P. Aune |
It has only been a few months since eBay sold Skype back to its original founders, but oh what a difference a few months can make. Back in December I wrote a piece here at TechnoBuffalo entitled “With eBay Out Of The Picture, Can Skype…
By Winston Sih |
The BuffaloBuzz with Winston Sih is back with another episode and this week, we take a look at: More BlackBerry Slider rumors. The BlackBerry Slider rumors have been “sliding” around town for quite a while now and in the latest round, it includes side profile…
By Winston Sih |
Many are already aware of Google’s attempt to take over the world. You can run, drive and now bike, but you can’t hide. Google made an announcement Tuesday night on plans to add bike routing and maps to their Google Maps service. During the National…
By brandonminiman |
Microsoft Research puts out some pretty cool products from time to time, and Pivot definitely ranks among them. It’s an application that helps you visualize data in an elegant and intuitive way. The uses range from helping you pick out an ideal breed of dog to analyzing population statistics for…
By Sean P. Aune |
It seems that Skype will be popping up on even more televisions this year than we thought at first. At the CES (Consumer Electronics Show) in January, Skype announced that it was partnering up with LG Electronics and Panasonic to bring its software into your living…
By Sean P. Aune |
If you’ve been surfing around YouTube as of late to watch music videos, you may have noticed an odd logo popping up in the pre-roll that says “Vevo.” What is it? What does it mean? Officially launched on Dec. 9th, 2009, Vevo.com has been described…
