New iBooks Are For Education What Lipstick Is To A Pig
I remember being a sophomore in high school and dreaming of gorgeous interactive textbooks that existed in a tablet computer that I could carry from class to class. Or massive digital whiteboards that could be jotted on and saved for reference later. Did I believe these would actually help my education? Only slightly. I knew that even if those tools existed, they would be prohibitively expensive. Today, Apple didn’t show off large digital whiteboards, but they did show off textbooks that were gorgeous and interactive for tablet computers that can be carried from class to class. They’re also prohibitively expensive for most high school students I knew, which is the group they’re targeting now.
Megaupload Shut Down – FBI Charges 7 People With Piracy
Just one day after countless websites went dark in protest of SOPA and PIPA, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation shut down the file sharing site megaupload.com and has filed charges against 7 people.
While investigators claim this has nothing to do with the international shitstorm surrounding the hilariously – and terrifyingly – draconian proposed legislation aimed at curbing online piracy, one has to wonder.
Sites Involved in SOPA/PIPA Protest, Son, I am Disappoint
If you have visited our site in the last 12 hours you have seen a message about us being opposed to SOPA/PIPA and a link to americancensorship.org. That’s it. No getting to our website to read anything, just that message and link. That’s what a protest is. I was a little disappointed in other sites that went “dark” in protest. Read the rest of this article…
Windows Phone & Gentlemen Hall – Sell Out Spotlight
At FleshEatingZipper we want to get you to the content and not to pages filled with pop-ups and ad links injected in text. In order to do that we show some love to our sponsors every once in a while. This is that time, check out what Windows Phone can do for you! Read the rest of this article…
Wikipedia Joins the SOPA/PIPA Fight, Shutting Down for 24 Hours on Jan 18th
Hot damn! Wikipedia will be joining reddit, us and every other site that is shutting down on this Wednesday, January 18th. Instead of 12 hours Jimmy Wales has said it will be 24 hours from midnight to midnight Washington DC time or EST. Read the rest of this article…
OnLive Desktop For iOS Review
Remember OnLive, the games on demand streaming service? Well, this time they’re back at it again but this time OnLive is taking over your remote desktop. Today, the hard working folks at OnLive released an iOS app “service that provides a seamless, no-compromise, instant-response cloud-based PC desktop”. Whew, that’s a lot of hyphons! So, is it worth the download? Find out after the break! Read the rest of this article…
Sprint Strategy VP: Windows Phone Not Worth ‘Taking A Risk On’
I was a Sprint customer for nine years before Google convinced me to move over to Verizon. One of the biggest questions I had was why Sprint wasn’t lining up behind Windows Phone more and why it gave the HTC Arrive (which was a decent, not great phone) such little berth to thrive on the carrier. The carrier had never come forward about this question, until now…
Sharing Music On Facebook With Spotify, Rdio Sounds Cool, Isn’t Yet
I thought being able to autonomously ‘tweet’ what song was playing on my computer to Facebook was pretty cool enough, but today Facebook unveiled music sharing. It was a feature they unveiled back at f8 in September, but is just now rolling into homes, much the same way Timeline is. But how awesome is it? Hrm…
Facebook To Pass One Billion Users In 2012. Make Sure Grandma’s On-board!
Can you recall those halcyon days when social networking was just for you and your friends? Back when you’d put up those ultra-zesty pictures of you at parties you’d just been to while sharing embarrassing secrets about things you really shouldn’t have done? While some can get away with it still, it’s the gentle notion that Facebook will approach a billion users this year that reminds us who’s using the service: everyone.
SOPA Protest Gaining Ground, reddit and The Entire Cheezburger Network (Us Too) Going Dark January 18th
A few days ago reddit announced that it will be going dark on January 18th from 8am to 8pm EST in protest of SOPA and if you don’t know what SOPA is check this out. Ben Huh today said via Twitter that they will also be going dark in protest of SOPA and we have also decided that we will be going dark that day as well. Read the rest of this article…
