Rumor has it that Apple, inc. is working on turning their iTunes-based payment system in the iTunes Store into a method for 3rd-party digital content vendors to sell and take payment for their digital goods. Currently, Apple already allows some 3rd party vendors to sell content in the iTMS – but this new system will … Read more
In an announcement that made a loud “bing!” to the internet search world yesterday, giants Microsoft and Yahoo! have decided to play nice together with combining their search technologies. It’s not surprising, as Microsoft courted Yahoo! last year for a while only to be snubbed in a final purchasing attempt. What can best be called … Read more
Over the years, I’ve amassed quite a home theater setup. It’s not a big fancy room, but I’ve got really comfortable furniture and a big screen, surround sound system, HD satellite dish receiver, video game systems, a Roku Netflix player, an iPod system, a DVD player, and an HDMI switcher. With great technological power, comes … Read more
According to The Tech Herald Microsoft is not done with Bungie and their flagship XBox video game franchise “Halo,” which includes at least 3 single-player titles and a recent foray into real-time strategy games. Recently it was announced at ComicCon in San Diego that they intend to release not only a Halo anime mini-series, but … Read more
I’ve been working on a few projects lately, both work and non-work related. One of them I wanted to share with you all is a Twitter-aggregation site I made that collects all the Tweets on Twitter for a recent period of time that relate to steak, different cuts of steak, the #wehavesteak or #steak hashtags, … Read more
The BBC has a really paranoid article about hackers being able to sniff out your keystrokes via the power circuit to which your computer may be connected. Obviously, this doesn’t apply to laptops, and from the article they’re only testing this out on PS/2 keyboards with really crappy shielding. Apparently due to poor shielding, data … Read more
The Associated Press (AP) has a story about Twitter users transmitting short cooking or baking recipes in 140 characters or less. (Check out the article for specific Twitterers that do this.) Why 140 characters? This is the hard limit Twitter sets on tweets so that it works in the confines of the SMS/text-messaging character limitations. … Read more