We all know there’s a lot of hype around Google+. The success or failure of social networks has never been about chatter, it’s about one thing and one thing only: how many people are on it? Now, estimates are saying that Google+ is growing at a record-breaking rate. Google walked in the door facing some […]
Voice of Objectivity is an ongoing column meant to temper the tendency of the Techcited to run away with the most exciting or controversial ideas in technology’s near future. The opinions presented here do not necessarily represent the views of Techcitement or this writer. Someone’s got to keep a cool head around here. I guess […]
Google+ had its first major glitch on Saturday, and many users learned why Google is calling its slow, ongoing roll-out of the service a “field trial”. It seems even Google can run out of hard drive space, and Google+’s early high levels of activity surprised the search giant. It seems that the disk that was […]
Google has a tendency to create a product, then let the people figure out how to use it. I think that is a lot of the reason for the ultimate failure of Google Wave, because I still don’t know exactly what it was for. They seem to be continuing this trend with Google+. For the […]
I’ve got a magic wand! Seriously though, what an awesome device to have. Forgive my exuberance, but it’s rare that I get to review something that’s not just good, but has honestly made my life easier. The ScanSnap S1100 is a small, easily stored, portable scanner. It’s about the size of a six-cell laptop battery, […]
I am a huuuuuuge Captain America fan. Captain America was the first comic book I started reading on a regular basis, back when Mark Gruenwald had him in the black suit in the 80s. So, with the Captain America: The First Avenger movie coming out, and all the connected promotions, I am filled both with joy […]
Click here to read Part I. Can a tablet be used to replace a netbook? As a regular netbook user (specifically an Acer Aspire One), my proposed experiment was to try and spend a week using a Viewsonic G-Tablet (chosen because it’s roughly the same price as the Acer) running Android instead . Now that […]
By Request is an ongoing series of reviews and tips requested by our Techcited commenters. Head for the comments section on any article and let us know what you want to know. With Amazon Cloud Drive back in the news, Techcitement reader Nuke asked us to take a look at how Amazon’s cloud music player […]
Despite Apple Macs still not including Blu-ray disc capable drives and Steve Jobs’s famous statement from late 2008, claiming the technology amounted to a “bag of hurt”, OS X users are finding a growing number of options for using the media with their systems. For quite a while now, Blu-ray capable players and recorders have […]
There’s been a bit of an uptick in stories about hackers lately. Be it a massive bank falling prey to a basic security exploit, a major electronics vendor losing their gaming network, or someone trying to excuse his inappropriate online behavior on them, hackers are everywhere. This time the victim is the 163-year-old newspaper, News […]
