Google has recently launched an ‘Inactive Account Manager‘ tool to handle the afterlife of your Google account. The tool lets the user decide what happens with their email, Google Plus and other accounts after they die (Just writing about this makes me feel weird). The user can choose a length of time starting at 3…
There have been many occasions when I’ve felt like disowning my friends when I realize they haven’t seen The Dark Knight trilogy. Some movies just have to be seen. For many other geeks, some novels just have to be read. How have you felt when your buddy told you he or she didn’t know what…
There’s plenty of mysteries to solve in the most recent instalment of the new Avengers storyline. But are there any answers to Marvel fans’ questions in the latest issue, and is this comic book worth your precious time and money? We have all the details here with Geek Insider’s review of Avengers #10. Earth’s Mightiest…
Game of Thrones appropriately holds the reputation of killing off main characters. Since season one saw a very important player relieved of his head, I guess that makes sense. Well we got a taste of that with season three’s fourth episode, an chapter that seems like nothing happened until you really consider all the stuff…
Viber user? Your phone is at serious risk. A security flaw has been exposed in the popular voice-calling app that allows full access to your smartphone, bypassing any lock or security feature that you may have enabled on the device. Viber is a VoIP app available for Android, iOS, Windows Phone and BlackBerry, known for…
Microsoft has a new strategy in its campaign to get users to switch to its Windows Phone platform. In its latest attempt, Microsoft will be releasing an Android app – “Switch to Windows Phone”, to make it easier for potential users to switch from Android to Windows Phone. The Microsoft app will scan the apps…
Tracy Seamster’s “1001 Faces of NPCs” at East Coast Game Conference I attended Tracy Seamster’s talk on building realistic and engaging non-player characters (NPCs) at the East Coast Game Conference. Players, Seamster says, remember game characters who are very helpful or very annoying. I can think of several tutorial NPCs whose text pop-ups drove me…
The year 2013 will be marked down in video game history as the year that saw the announcement and release of the PS4, the struggle of the Nintendo Wii U, and probably the release of the next Xbox. “History is written by the victors” is an adage that invariably holds true in the video game…
Co-CEO of Samsung Electronics, and Head of Samsung Mobile – J K Shin is telling customers it doesn’t matter which variant of the Galaxy S4 – the quad-core or the octa-core model, they buy. According to him, we’ll never, or at least, most of us will never notice the difference in performance. Samsung’s latest flagship, the Galaxy…
Xiaomi, a Chinese manufacturer of Android devices has recently managed to sell 200,000 units of its latest Xiaomi Mi2S smartphone in less than a minute, 45 seconds to be exact. Xiaomi may not be as popular as Apple or Samsung in the mobile industry, but its name has been in the news lately for their high-end…
I first attended Raleigh’s East Coast Game Conference in 2010, when it was Triangle Games Conference. (I’m a gaming convention hipster, apparently.) Now in it’s fifth year, ECGC offers seven programming tracks, allowing attendees to focus on Design, Programming, Art, Writing, Serious Games, Education, Mobile, Career, or choose different events from various tracks. The East…
Things are not turning out how Microsoft expected them to be this year, but the Redmond based company might feel a bit better to learn that its Surface line of tablets did outsell Google’s Nexus 10 tablet. This means that the future for Windows 8 in the tablet arena is not bleak, but it’s still…
Welcome to a new feature here at Geek Insider! Every week, I shall round up the most interesting gaming news and rumors that the Internet has to offer. From new videos, pictures, and information regarding the latest games to news regarding our beloved industry, it shall all be here. Well, maybe not all, but certainly the bits I…
Injustice: Gods Among Us is a game that will delight many. It will also infuriate some. On one hand, it is a slick and accessible fighting game in which you get to play as a variety of heroes and villains from the DC Universe. On the other hand, hard-core Mortal Combat fans will no doubt…
Facebook phones? That’s not how Nokia rolls. The Finnish phone manufacturer believes Whatsapp can work better, and has released the world’s first Whatsapp-dedicated device – the Nokia Asha 210. Broadly, the Asha 210 is primarily for ‘social networking’ – it comes with Facebook and Twitter preloaded. But Whatsapp gets preferential treatment, with a dedicated button…