So, I’ve had some time to digest the announcements made by Apple at their “Back to Mac” event, and although there weren’t a ton of surprises, one announcement in particular intrigues me. The Mac App Store will be launching in about 90 days and has already proven to raise some emotional responses. Some of the

The folks over at popular mobile communication app Nimbuzz got a rude awakening this morning when they found out that Skype wants them to turn off all connections to its service as of Sunday, Oct. 31st. Of course what is now following this is a war of words over what the real reason is, but

Due for release this week is the much anticipated game from Ubisoft, Shaun White Skateboarding for PC, Playstation 3, Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii. Unfortunately for PS3 gamers, they will have to wait a bit longer as Sony announced they will be recalling the PS3 discs due to critical mistake in printing. Sony has released

When most people think of the U.S. PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) network, they immediately think of “old & stuffy”, Masterpiece Theater and antiques. Well, for the most part they are right since those things are the stock and trade of the member & government supported channels, but it is trying to make sure it is

People ask me all the time why I converted from Windows to Mac and although I could give them a number reasons one stands out every time Apple releases a new software suite. It might be the new OS X version or in this case the release of iLife ’11. Apple does not publicize the

Earlier this week Apple held their “Back to Mac” event and released some groundbreaking technologies. A new iLife ’11 suite that utilizes more screen real estate, an App Store for Mac applications, Lion OSX and FaceTime Beta for Mac amongst others. Many people throughout the past few days have asked me what announcement I am

“There’s An App For That” has become a joke phrase for many people because Apple beat us over the head with it in so many advertisements. Well, now people are going to have to be a bit more careful about when and where they use it, because now the phrase is going to have a

Ushahidi (from the Swahili word meaning testimony) is an open source platform designed to help with disaster relief by allowing site owners to be a hub for information for their community with this free software. It’s being worked on by folks from a variety of countries, including Kenya, Ghana, South Africa, Malawi, the Netherlands and

Facebook has continually come under fire for privacy issues and a general disregard of user data usage. Unlike Google, Facebook’s mantra is definitely more along the “do evil” lines than anything benign, and Mark Zuckerberg makes no secret of his contempt for user privacy and control. A few months back, a little concept called Diaspora

I’m a fairly recent Android owner with an HTC Incredible. I got my phone (a replacement for an HTC Touch Pro 2) before Froyo. Life before Froyo was battery heaven. It lasted for days on end, no matter how many apps I had open or minutes I talked. Then, Verizon did a push of the

From the ever changing secret stash over at Google Labs, we get a nice notifier to allow your phone and computer to communicate. Scanning that QR code with your Android phone will get you a new application designed to keep you from missing any important, or unimportant, communications on your phone ever again. If you

In a post about backing up Google Calendar and Google data, I promised you a follow up list of tools to back up your social presences. This is what I use to back up everything for @leslie, Uptown Uncorked, Film POP! and all of my other social accounts. I hope you find it helpful! Backupify

ExBlocker is the brainchild of DC branding company Jess3, spearheaded by Jesse Thomas. I love that a company who has delivered such big name data visualization projects as NASA’s buzzroom set it’s sights on a problem common to the everyman and everywoman online. What does it do? Exactly what it says: it blocks your exes

Is this you? Do you, like me, have an Android phone and use Gmail for all your email, Google Calendar for all of your events and tasks, all because it offers such easy synching and a nice online access point you can take anywhere? You are not alone. More importantly, you are not immune to

After two years and 49 days, the Apple App Store has passed the milestone of a quarter million apps available for download. (this does not count regional apps available outside of the United States only.) 148Apps.biz was the site to discover this news on Friday and they released a handy chart to show you how

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 Get Its Mojo Back?”, and I think the clear answer

Here’s a video from the Game Developer Conference held in San Francisco last week that previews the upcoming software update headed to WebOS sometime in the first half of 2010.  Everyone’s up in arms that mobile devices don’t have Flash capabilities since a majority of video content on the web plays through Adobe’s platform.  We’ve

Microsoft is getting ready to release the latest version of Microsoft Office, and this is one of those products that you have to every so often ask yourself, “Is it really making enough updates that I absolutely need to buy it?” Unlike with operating system updates that almost always bring about some huge change with

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 Bike Summit in Washington, Google plans on adding the “most

One of the most well known software distributors for the Mac has another bundle of software for sale from which 25% of proceeds from are donated to charity.  Today’s User Blog Feature comes from Tyler Payne with a rundown of MacHeist’s latest nanobundle.  If you’re looking for some super cheap software thats insanely discounted, check

As the New York Times showed off the iPad application they had been working with Apple to produce, the future of traditional print saw a glimmer of hope for its new platform.  Publications like the NYTimes and WSJ crave a means by which they can charge readers, just as they’ve done in years past for

You can of course part with your hard-earned cash for top notch system security software but why bother when there are so many excellent free programs available?

It’s either being deliberately overlooked or added in later as an afterthought. And with HTML 5 just around the corner, things are not looking good for the future of Adobe’s Flash.

Recent figures show Internet Explorer’s browsing dominance continuing to decline. France and Germany advising web users to drop the browser altogether after a recent security scare. Can Microsoft survive the latest battle in the browser wars?

Since the introduction of the original iPhone, users have missed a feature that could make life a whole lot easier: the ability to use the iPod as a storage device. Users wanting to use the iPhone’s storage beyond iTunes have had jail breaking as their only option, but not all of us want to jailbreak.