By polrid |
Musicians are a demanding bunch. In the same breath they voice preferences for both vintage and new technology. I take a look at some of the latter to have caught my eye over the last year.…
By Sean P. Aune |
Apple’s Safari, Google’s Chrome, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Mozilla’s Firefox are the undisputed kings of the Web browser market, but did you know there are even more options out there? Well there are, and while all of them share a lot of common features, each…
By Sean P. Aune |
There was a time where bloggers did nothing but live and die by getting on the front page of social news site Digg, and while it is still helpful to get there, you’ll notice no one really seems to care any more. It’s hard to…
By Sean P. Aune |
Go to Pandora, and you can listen to streaming music to your heart’s content. You can do the same with Last.fm. Blip.fm will work also. And then you can load up Spotify and … oh, wait, that only works in Europe so far. While we…
By Sean P. Aune |
It seems like 2009 was the year of Twitter with it being discussed by every major news outlet as they discussed things like Ashton Kutcher racing CNN to the magical one million followers level, Oprah joining the site, and the number of users experiencing meteoric growth…
By Sean P. Aune |
For years sociology and psychology experts have worried about people throwing themselves into virtual worlds inside of their computers . It has been a concern that people were losing their social skills by sitting in front of their computers and not interacting with people in…
By Sean P. Aune |
URL shorteners have become a vitally important part of our daily lives on the Web due to the need to conserve space in our messages on Twitter, in status messages and so on. However, while this has formerly been the domain of smaller companies that do nothing…
By brandonminiman |
If you’ve ever built a custom website, you know that it can be a multi-step process that often begins with a wireframe. A wireframe is a rough sketch that outlines where certain elements appear. It doesn’t include graphical elements, as this is usually left for…
By Sean P. Aune |
Last week I wrote a piece about if Skype could get its mojo back without eBay, and it appears that the popular Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) provider is wasting no time doing just that. Skype announced a beta of its version 4.2 software last…
By Sean P. Aune |
Before you get all excited about the possibility of Apple’s popular iTunes music service moving into the cloud space, have you considered the possible implications of just how much this is going to change the overall digital music landscape? Ever since the news last week of Apple…
By Travis Harvey |
So you’re in the market for a new gadget? The first question you’re going to ask yourself is “which one is the best?” The answer isn’t always that simple. Functionality and availability vary from consumer to consumer, so you’ve got to weigh a whole host…
By Jon Rettinger |
Sometimes a piece of technology is so hot that it requires two videos to do a full review of it. In case you missed part 1, you can peep it here. To recap, this behemoth is the fist Windows Mobile phone to have a capacitive…
By Sean P. Aune |
With the recent sale of Skype to its original founders and some venture capitalists, you have to wonder if this may be the route back to Skype being able to get back to being the “cool kid” again. In Oct. 2005 Internet auction house eBay…
By Sean P. Aune |
Media moguls of all types are preparing to charge for their online content, but it seems that someone forgot to mention they should actually ask people if they are willing to pay for such content before they go dumping money into building their systems. It…
By Armin Talic |
Though it hasn’t been released as a public beta, the Google Chrome developer build is tantalizingly close to general beta release. So close in fact that there are only 8 significant bugs standing in its way. This suggest an optimistic released date of sometime in…
By Armin Talic |
Our friends over at iFixit have just rolled out their latest feature, Answers, perhaps one of the most useful additions to the diy tech community in the past few months. For those of you that are not familiar with iFixit, they’re a team of tech…
By Travis Harvey |
Earlier this week, I wrote about my conversion from MobileMe to Google Apps. Whenever you want to change email address it’s simple for you, but harder for your contacts. It’s always a good idea to create an email account that will be with you for…
By Armin Talic |
Most of us deny it, but all of us spend excessive amounts of time browsing our Facebook profile and friends list. It’s a wonder then that we treat this mass of information with such disregard. I might not admit it often, but if I lost…
By Travis Harvey |
Remember when I said I was through with MobileMe? My subscription has officially expired and, shortly before, I packed up and moved back to Google. The process took less than an hour and the steps were brain-dead simple. Obviously, the most important transition was moving…
By Armin Talic |
With twitter integration the buzzword for most web applications these days, the focus is starting to move to sharing video easily through Twitter. The folks behind Articulate, producers of E-Learning and Authoring tools, bring you Screenr, instant screen sharing for twitter. This on its own…
By Armin Talic |
We’re an international bunch here at TechnoBuffalo towers, so this particular article applies to our beloved UK readers. TVCatchup is a service that touts itself as a free-of-charge online TV streaming service, with no strings attached. Sounds good right? It gets better. Not only is…
By brandonminiman |
If you’re using Gmail, did you know that there are more than a dozen experimental Google Labs features that you can turn on to help pimp your email experience? In this article we’ll talk about five of the most interesting. To get access to the…
By Armin Talic |
It’s a bit of a let down that our friends in the US aren’t able to get their hands on Spotify just yet, but fear not dear readers, there’s a web-based service that’s been available for some time now, and it’s right on your doorstep.…
By Travis Harvey |
With the vast number of personal finance managers available on the web, it’s daunting to even think of where to begin. We’ll guide you through one of the most feature-packed, oddly fun money managers on the web that helps make your finances easy to track…
