Techcitement Review: Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1
The world of tablets these days is full of competitors with just one thought in mind, beating the iPad2. Samsung took one look at the latest iPad and sent their efforts back to the drawing board. The answer they found seems to be, if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em. Last year, Android brought pretty […]
Blockbuster Offers New Abysmal Promotional Deal To Netflix Customers
In the wake of Netflix’s major price increase announced last week, Blockbuster has announced a special promotion for Netflix customers. I had expected Blockbuster to make a pitch for their program; it would be a bit bizarre if they didn’t. What I didn’t expect is for their deal to be so much worse than the […]
SnApp Judgments: Folder Organizer
Every night at 12:15 AM Pacific, Amazon gives away a free paid app through their Amazon app store. As I am usually awake at 12:15 AM Pacific, why not let you know if today’s app is useful, or just more clutter in your app drawer? Today’s free app is FolderOrganizer by Fabio Collini, which ordinarily runs $1.49. […]
Facebook Unfriends Google+ Ad, Blocks User’s Other Ads
While this shouldn’t really come as any kind of surprise, Facebook doesn’t like Google+ treading on their turf. Michael Lee Johnson, a self-proclaimed “Internet Geek, App Developer, Technological Virtuoso”, came up with a rather bold way to get more friends on Google’s social network- by creating an ad on Facebook. The ad (shown on right), […]
My Aunt’s Hotmail Account Is Sending Me Male Enhancement Ads!
Nobody likes spam or spammers and that includes the companies who host email services like Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft’s Hotmail. Recently, Microsoft has unveiled two new security features for its flagship Hotmail email service to help battle the latest rise in spam. For several years now, spammers have operated by buying time on botnets and […]
Create Collaborative Concerts And Master Multi-user Music
Many years ago, I bought my first MIDI capable music synthesizer and realized that the MIDI standard was essentially the glue that would attach computers to musical instruments, opening up a world of new possibilities for musicians. Not only did it allow a computer system with a full-screen monitor, keyboard, and mouse to become the […]
Solution In Need Of A Problem: The Facebook Button
Solution In Need Of A Problem is an irregular feature, where a Techcitement writer looks at an announced feature or product and tries to decide what the actual point is. AT&T showed off some upcoming products Tuesday at a private press event, including the Touchpad 4G and their version of the Sony Xperia Play (aka […]
Segues: Stop Scaring Yourself
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 […]
Olde Tyme Techcitement: The Pentium 4 Processor Will Rock Your World
Time for Olde Tyme Techcitement, when we take a look back at technology relics. It’s basically your grampa talking about the good old days, but sooner and totally more reasonable than dumb boring stories about how all this used to be farmland. November 20, 2000. We were still reeling from the devastation of Y2K, Creed’s […]
Techcitement Review: iPad 2 Is iPaddier
I know the iPad2 isn’t brand new, but it is the market (re)definer. As we’ll compare many future tablets against it, it’s only fair to give it a hard look. Apple’s goal with the iPad line was to displace the netbook as your “third screen” (desktop/laptop, phone, netbook), but for it to remain a supplemental […]