By Sean P. Aune |
The second I hear “Roomba,” I just immediately think about salsa dancing as opposed to a robotic vacuum cleaner, but as we all know, it certainly applies to the latter as well. iRobot, the company behind the brand, has been revamping their line of of…
By Jack McGrath |
How do you develop apps for iOS? It’s a common question that many computer enthusiasts ask, and one we here at TechnoBuffalo hope to answer with this series of posts. Learning how to develop software can be one of the most intimidating prospects for the average computer user,…
By Sean P. Aune |
While it’s no secret that Apple is attempting to remove the computer from the iOS update equation, what has been up in the air was if it would only work via Wi-Fi, or could you do it over your cellular network. Well … yes and…
By Sean P. Aune |
Oh, Prince. There you go again with your hatred of the Internet. Can it not do anything right in your eyes? Speaking with The Guardian recently, 80′s music icon Prince said that he was done recording music for now. The reason? Online piracy. The industry…
By Sean P. Aune |
For reasons known only to them, the LulzSec hacking group that has made such a splash recently with high profile attacks has decided to call it quits. The small group of hackers – which claims to only have six members – announced their final batch…
By Jack McGrath |
After its release in 1994, Marathon, an independent title developed and published by Bungie, was able to achieve critical success and a cult following. Programmed to function on Apple’s Macintosh operating system, the game failed to gain widespread traction because of its limited audience. Hopefully,…
By Damon Brown |
WIRED magazine started all kinds of ruckus earlier this year when it declared that The Web Is Dead. “Yeah, yeah, OK,” I thought, as I read the article on the WIRED website. GTFOH. But something weird happened – I started to agree with those crazy…
By Sean P. Aune |
As with seemingly all good things, Turntable.fm has come to an end for users outside of the United States, at least for now. Earlier today users of the Turntable site outside of the United States were greeted by the following message: We’re very sorry, but…
By Sean P. Aune |
Google has made it a whole lot easier to see how an app stacks in the reviews if you’re using the Web version of the Android Market. During the day on Friday, Google rolled out an update to the Android Market that will allow you…
By Joey Davidson |
We here at TechnoBuffalo are lovers of all things gadget, gizmo and tech. Video games are a part of that world. As a way to share a little bit more about our editors and their weekend habits, we’ve decided to run a weekly feature every…
By Noah Kravitz |
Monsoon has been selling placeshifters for awhile now, first under the Hava brand name, and now called Vulkano. The entry-level Vulkano Flow is a $99 Slingbox fighter that offers up the core functionality of a placeshifter with a few bonuses and a few notable absences.…
By Joey Davidson |
In case you didn’t get the memo yet, Valve has gone and made Team Fortress 2 a free-to-play title for everyone, forever. Now they’ve added some more to the pile of good news and finally released another entry in the “Meet the…” series. These clips…
By Sean P. Aune |
With the news this week that Hulu is up for sale, I just can’t help but wonder if we won’t be writing the service’s obituary in the not so distant future. Launched in March of 2008, Hulu seemed like the perfect solution for the networks…
By Joey Davidson |
As far as I’m concerned, Irrational Games Co-Founder and BioShock creator Ken Levine has it right in the world of motion control gaming. The creative designer spoke about BioShock Infinite briefly during Sony‘s press conference at E3 this year; it was there that he announced…
By Emily Price |
What happens when you give some famous people DJ equipment and have them decorate it? Last night Pioneer kicked off the Pioneer DJ created Art Mix, an art show that “brings together many of the world’s best DJs, urban artists and designers to create original…
By Joey Davidson |
During the E3 demo shown off to the gaming press two weeks ago, Irrational Games brought forth the concept of tears into BioShock Infinite. As Ken Levine, Creative Director and Co-founder of Irrational, explains in the video above, Elizabeth is capable of reaching into these…
By Adriana Lee |
LulzSec, in a joint effort with fellow griefer group Anonymous, targeted Arizona Police yesterday when they leaked hundreds of confidential documents into the wild via BitTorrent. The intelligence docs, training manuals, and personal data (including names, e-mails, cell phone numbers and addresses of police workers)…
By Jon Rettinger |
Do you like the Motorola Xoom, and want to enjoy mobility without the constraints of being on Verizon? Well, luckily for you there is now an unlocked model available that will allow you to get it running on AT&T 3G or T-Mobile, but there you…
By Winston Sih |
As Apple continues to prepare to launch iCloud in the fall – the service that links your iOS devices, Macs, and even Windows-based devices – on going questions continue to be posed by current subscribers of Apple’s MobileMe service. MobileMe is the service that Apple…
By Sean P. Aune |
Sprint seems to be upping their game as of late when it comes to handsets. With the looming AT&T/T-Mobile merger, which the company is fighting vigorously, the current third place carrier needs to see what it can do to save itself. Adding more handsets is…
By Joey Davidson |
According to sources supposedly speaking to Develop Magazine, Microsoft has begun working with developers to bring the free-to-play model to the Xbox 360. The Xbox LIVE network already has its own currency in place with the Microsoft Points system, so free-to-play microtransactions are practically a…
By Joey Davidson |
Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto spoke with MTV Multiplayer about the online portion of their next console, the Wii U. Before explaining that Internet connectivity does matter for the company, Miyamoto, likely inadvertently, shed light on why the Nintendo Wii delivered such a lackluster online experience. This is…
By Sean P. Aune |
Normally you’re used to hearing people just swoon over everything Apple releases. Whether it be the iPhone or the latest Mac, people love them some Apple products. Even their software is pretty much universally loved. As Steve Jobs is fond of saying, “it just works.”…
By Sean P. Aune |
Do you have a burning question about tech? Well, it’s time to ask Jon Rettinger and hear him answer one of your pressing queries on video. Until 3 PM PST on Sunday, June 26th, leave a comment with your question for him, and then you’ll…
