Showing posts with label technology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label technology. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

iPhone users... beware.

Remember Snood? Remember spending hours and hours playing it in the middle school computer lab until the school finally had to ban it? Well, Snood is now available as an iPhone application. If you (like me) are ready to spend the four bucks it costs, then you're ready to waste an awful lot of time as well.

Read more here.

Saturday, August 1, 2009

How to fix Facebook

My favorite online publication, Slate Magazine, has posted an article that suggests four ways that Facebook could be improved. As usual, they're so right that it hurts.

Read up here.

Thursday, July 30, 2009

Responsibility is key

Grolsch and Apple are trying to promote responsibility in people who live in a culture of unnecessary and excessive drinking. Good for them.

Here's the advertisement for the application, coming soon to an iPhone near you.


Hey, I'm just a concerned citizen.

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

How to behave in the digital age

The cover story in this month's Wired magazine is How to Behave: the New Rules for Highly Evolved Humans. With the advent of the internet, particularly with regards to  social networking, it is difficult to know where to draw the line of acceptability. Where is the boundary between 'normal' and just creepy. Wired has compiled an excellent list of suggestions for our'new' standard of conduct. My favorites include:
  • Don't Google stalk before a first date
  • Don't lie with your Facebook photo
  • Leave your Wi-Fi open
  • Never broadcast your relationship status
  • Don't Hesitate to haggle on craigslist
  • There's no such thing as too many friends
You guys should take a gander at the explanation to these and other rules here.

Finally, I must note that by making this post, I have effectively violated rule #2, Don't blog or Tweet anything with more than half a million hits. Obviously, Wired is an internationally renowned technology magazine and is bound to have millions of hits every day. I have no defense to this and can only hope that you, the members of my decidedly small audience, will pardon my bad manners.