Do you love Google? Google sure hopes you do. Although it hasn’t been announced anywhere, go to www.wdyl.com or google.com/whatdoyoulove, type in a search string, and it creates a sort of mini-portal where it runs the search through every Google product. So, instead of individually having to look up a Google Map, YouTube, Trend, and photo album […]
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 […]
I need to come right out and confess a bias for Thinkpads. My first laptop was a Thinkpad 380 and there are design elements on Thinkpads that I think are just wonderful. As a writer, I find the Trackpoint mouse solution perfect for never having to take my hands off the keys and they make […]
For the uninitiated to the “walled garden” metaphor, commonly used to refer to Apple’s App Store model, the idea is that a vendor creates only one channel for their service, effectively “fencing you in”. It’s not something sinister, but when Apple first floated it, the walled garden was a genuinely new paradigm. Prior to that, […]
Is Facebook the future of blogs? One local news blog seems to think so. According to the Washington Post, rockvillecentral.com, a website focusing on local news in Rockville, MD, has ditched its website in favor of existing solely on Facebook. This is not the same thing as if a major news source – let’s say, […]
Each Segues column starts with something tech-related before quickly branching out from there into a tangentially related thread. These articles are born from my thought and speech patterns that regularly contain quickfire transitions. For one of my birthdays, a friend made me a crown that said “King of the Segues”. Actually, it said “King of […]
Odds are that by the time you read the words “Human Resources”, your attention has already moved elsewhere. However, despite the relative disinterest and disdain that some have for HR Departments, you can’t really ignore that HR is a billion dollar industry. For those with any sort of interest in the HR business, the name […]
Yesterday saw the launch of the brand new startup PriceAdvice, which has a unique twist on the concept of deal hunting. Not only does the self-proclaimed “virtual blue book” site give you an overview of what the typical price range is on the device you’re looking for by combining information from a variety of different […]
Yesterday, the Mozilla Project folks began pushing Firefox 5 out as an automatic update to Firefox 4 users. The first thing that ran through my mind, and surely many others’ minds too, was “Huh? Why are they upgrading me to an entirely new release via their auto-updater?” Traditionally, if you ran Firefox, you would never […]
I’ve published several stories today referencing last night’s gdgt meetup event here in New York. So far, however, I have yet to post any video or photographic evidence that I was actually there. So here it is, my documentation of going to this exciting venue: That’s it. My photo of the line is all that […]
