Say Hello To Google Mobile’s Fancy New UI
Amidst all the well-deserved hullabaloo over last week’s big Google+ release (Who isn’t salivating?), Google began making some tweaks to their mobile web user interface (UI). It seems that Google didn’t make any announcement about the upgrade, instead leaving users to find the changes on their own. Well, the heck with that. Here at Techcitement, […]
Is Nico Nico The Future Of Streaming Video? (Video Interview)
The definition of the word techcitement really came to life for me this weekend while attending Anime Expo in Los Angeles. One of the booths, Nico Nico, hosted a live web broadcast. That in itself wasn’t so interesting. What was different was as the show went on, messages sent in from viewers around the world would […]
Google+ Receives An A+ For Privacy Controls
The last year has seen concerns over privacy on Facebook rise to new heights. Every new feature seems to be designed to automatically share more user information, on an opt-out basis, and the controls that let users opt out of services they never wanted to be a part of are buried under layer after layer […]
SnApp Judgments: Fireworks
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 app is… oh, you are kidding me, a live […]
SnApp Judgment: Sign
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 paid app is Sign by Simply Applied, which normally […]
Amazon Cuts Ties With Affiliates In California To Dodge Sales Tax
Today marks the first day Amazon.com would have been required to start charging California customers a 7.25% base sales tax on their purchases, after Governor Jerry Brown signed a new piece of legislation to that effect two days ago. The catch? The justification for requiring this state sales tax hinged on the fact that Amazon […]
Segues: The Future Is Here And It’s Horrifying
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 […]
Skype With Video Hacked To Work On Other Android Handsets
In case you missed it yesterday, Skype now supports video chat on Android. But only on four officially supported devices. I say “officially” because it didn’t take long for the hardcore users at XDA-developers to force the Skype 2.0 app to work on more hardware. The Galaxy S community was the first to take a […]
A Bit About Bitcoins
If you’ve been following the news recently, you’ve probably seen at least a mention of bitcoin. The latest was negative press about hackers compromising a major Bitcoin trading web site and plunging the value of the virtual coinage from around $17.50 per coin to around one cent. But what’s the fascination with bitcoin and is […]
SnApp Judgments: PBA Bowling 2
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 PBA Bowler 2 by Concrete Software, Inc. […]