Tweetdeck For Desktop: For When You Use Twitter Or Facebook A Lot
Before most of its users were replaced by unfeeling robots, I used to be a Twitter fiend. A few years ago, I used the Twhirl desktop app to keep track of all my tweets, @’s, and private messages, but when support dropped for it (the guy was acqhired, as TechCrunch puts it, by Seesmic), I went to Chrome extensions. When those all failed, one by one over time, I just gave up on the whole thing. If you’re a power user like me (i.e., multiple accounts) then Twitter’s own site only works so well before you’re logging in and out of profiles and it just becomes a mess. That’s why Tweetdeck exists. Their Android app is honestly the most important one on my phone, but how does its sparkling new desktop version handle when you’re at your computer most of the time? Let’s find out…
Android Ice Cream Sandwich – a Preview For the Rest of Us
ICS (Ice Cream Sandwich), or Android 4.0, is due to drop any day now, and if you read our Article on Why You Should(n’t) Buy a Galaxy Nexus on Verizon, or are wondering what it will perform like when it’s on older hardware, like the Samsung Nexus S, that’s only running a single core processor and 512mb of RAM. Well, wonder no more! Read on to see how well ICS performed.
Why You Should(n’t) Buy A Galaxy Nexus On Verizon
Like most of the tech industry, I’d really become irritated by Verizon’s refusal to acknowledge the Galaxy Nexus’ existence in the form of a release date or a price point. It’s super cool that they decided to drop the info (well, at least someone leaked it out) a few days before it’s slated to roll out to Verizon stores, but it was a super jerk move to wait a month and a half after its unveiling and weeks after its international availability. So now that the cards are on the table, do you now rush to Verizon to buy one… or merely wait?
Star Wars : The Old Republic Peripherals From Razer – Pre-Order Now Available
If you’re anything like me, you love a nice, new, crisp, responsive mouse and keyboard for ultimate gaming pwnage. Well, lucky for those of us who plan on playing Star Wars : The Old Republic, Razer has announced a full suite of peripherals for the upcoming MMO and they’re now available for pre-orders.
Read on for the sexy details!
SkyNET’s Annihilation Of Mankind Will Descend On The Wings Of Quadrocopters
Do you know the analogy of the frog in the pot? How if a frog were to land inside a sizzling pot it would hop out immediately, but if it were to merely rest in the bowl and let the temperature rise, it would sizzle and burn away with apathy? Ladies and gentlemen, we are the frog, the pot is civilization as we know it, and the agent raising the heat? Our magnificient autonomous robots that will one day destroy us, starting humbly enough with robotic helicopters. This is what they’re learning and this is why they must be stopped.
Chrome Eclipses Firefox in Browser Wars, Off To Olympus To Fight Zeus
It took three years, but Google’s super-light Chrome browser finally crept over Firefox’s distant second-placing in the browser market. While the difference between the two is only a fraction of a percent, it bodes pretty well for the search engine company (and Android caretaker) because their share has been on a rocket ride straight to the moon. The story’s a little different State-side, but has Google’s browser taken up a roost as your primary surf engine? Read the rest of this article…
Anyone Else Still Reading Engadget? [UPDATE: EIC Tim Stevens Responds]
![Anyone Else Still Reading Engadget? [UPDATE: EIC Tim Stevens Responds]](/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/EngadgetRead6604-650x365.jpg "Anyone Else Still Reading Engadget? [UPDATE: EIC Tim Stevens Responds]")
It’s now been eight months since the Engadget Exodus, in which a large group of key editors at the tech blog fled the many tentacles of The AOL Way to form The Verge, a sparkling new tech/lifestyle website. While I still visit Engadget on a regular basis, I still can’t help but feel that the soul of the site left when Joshua Topolsky decide to leave. Engadget still claims a much larger audience than The Verge (which turns a month old tomorrow), that it’s under a different editorial direction now doesn’t mean that it can maintain its pace. Who knows, maybe The Verge will only find a niche spot in the blogosphere despite the large, blank checks that SBNation is writing to build it. So what is it about Engadget that makes it feels so normal now?
Facebook Now Allows For Incredibly Long Posts, Feisty Internet Debates Find New Venue
Today our favorite social network announced that it has increased the maximum limit on post lengths to 60,000 characters. For some perspective, that’s about 10,000 words’ worth of prose, a fifth of a NaNoWriMo, and really, a ton of text. The increase seems to have been handed down arbitrarily, but transmitting a ton of text is hardly a chore for Facebook’s hardware, the test will be in our patience in reading text framed in narrow blue reply boxes. But does this increase in the sheer amount of content people can post change the face of Facebook?
Hackers Can Remotely Set Your Printer On Fire (Or Blow It Up) – Not According To HP!
Computer peripheral mega-corp Hewlett-Packard today released a statement regarding the rumors that hackers can set your printer on fire, remotely, using a script to shut down its thermal protection.
HP says this rumor is exactly that…a rumor.
Forget 3D, Where’s My Virtual Reality?
Somewhere around the time most of our audience was being born, virtual reality was somehow gaining traction as a favorable man-machine interface. According to movies like Lawnmower Man and Ghost in the Machine and books like Snow Crash and (kinda) Neuromancer, there was a future in which we wore big, bulky headsets with some tracking gloves and interacted with 3D objects and menus or folders or something. 3D gaming would have become an entirely different genre entirely and there would be absolutely no need for large displays in the real world. You could simply live in a storage shed with a power outlet and a broadband connection and exist in an entirely different universe. So why didn’t it take off? And how awesome is it? Let’s cover the pros and cons of this synthetic reality that never became.
