Bloomberg reports that JPMorgan is going to supply its investment bankers with iPads. This cannot be good news for RIM, the manufacturers of Blackberry, as iPhones are starting to challenge Blackberries in their stronghold of business users. Apple is building on its momentum in the tablet space, leveraging its 95 percent market share to expand […]
LibreOffice is a fork of OpenOffice. That requires a bit of explanation for those not familiar with open source slang. A decade ago, Sun Microsystems donated the code for their office program, StarOffice, to the open source community as the Open Office office suite. They contintued to develop proprietary components for OpenOffice, while OO took […]
After a few weeks of hard work, we have our first sponsor on board. Luxor Hotel and Casino is a hotel on the strip of Las Vegas. You cannot miss it – It’s the pyramid on the strip. They even have a light on the top of the hotel if you get lost. The Luxor […]
The BBC reports that almost 20% of Facebook feeds serve up malware. The malware is coming from various independently-written apps, not from users home computers. From the article: The majority of infections were associated with apps written by independent developers, which promised enticements and rewards to trick users into installing the malware, BitDefender said. . […]
While at BlogWorld & New Media Expo, I stopped at the Social Media Club, where I interviewed Chris Heuer. After the interview, Brian Thatcher took a few head shots. The following is the results from all the head shots on Flickr.
Last night, the new Geekazine theme went online. There are still a couple glitches, but the new theme was activated and is running full-time. It was a week long process of tweaking and fixing the site. Hopefully you like the new look. Let me know by commenting below or vote in the poll.
I have often mentioned my preference for Fluxbox as a window manager for my Linux machines. It’s small, light, and fast, and does everything I want. Lately, I have been perfecting my Fluxbox keys file, which manages key bindings (also known as hot keys). Windows users are commonly familiar with a few Windows hotkey combinations, […]
Roku officially launched the Hulu Plus application. Sad news is you can only get Hulu on Roku if you pay $7.99 and that doesn’t limit the amount of commercials. Nonetheless, we are one step closer in cutting the proverbial cable cord. The service will hit other boxes like PS3 and XBox360 soon. “We are excited […]
Update 1: After experimenting with the networked drive over my network, I was unsatisfied with the functionality; I could copy to and from it, but I could not delete or rename files remotely. I wanted this functionality because this is drive for backing stuff up from various other computers on the network; there’s nothing on […]
Today, Mark Zuckerberg announced an expansion of their messaging service. It’s not here to replace email, but to enhance it. However, with opportunity that no one will get any more spam and usability will be easier simply because it’s within Facebook, would you really want to keep your other email account? I personally have more than one […]
I have been seeing more and more stories like this. The Aurora (Colorado) City Council is considering trying out iPads to go green and help save some green. (snip) City officials say it currently costs $710 to print each city council information packet and another $200 per council member to assemble and deliver the packets. […]
Bloomberg reports that someone is suing Google, alleging that the Google Toolbar reports information back to the Google mothership. The complaint, filed in federal court in San Jose, California, claims Google has misled users who download the software, used to search and browse the web, to believe they can disable features that transmit personal data […]
Officially 3 Years of Geekazine (on Sunday). I bought a TV and Roku this week. BTW – Don’t go to Best Buy for a Roku. Working on 2 new show ideas. CES is forming very well, new sponsors joining us, talking with NBC Universal. Our live stream will definitely be the one to watch. Sponsor: […]
I’ve been wrestling with my file server for most of the past five days. I decided to upgrade the OS from Slackware 13.0, which was running like a charm, to 13.1, primarily hoping there might be drivers to better support my new 17″ monitor which I picked up for 40 bucks from a fellow who […]
If you live in an area that observes Daylight Savings Time, then it’s time to change the clocks. Fall back; Spring forward. Since it’s fall, we take it back one hour. You get an extra hour of sleep (unless you’re up until the rooster calls), as 2PM on Sat. Nov 6th becomes 1 AM. Need […]