Some Spoilers Ahead Fans of the G. I. Joe franchise have been anxiously waiting for the second installment since the 2009 release of G. I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. So the question here is whether G. I. Joe: Retaliation lived up to high expectations? This is pretty much a debatable topic since everyone has mixed feelings about the…
PlanItGreen: The Big Switch, developed by Wyse Games, with National Geographic, GE and the Center of Science, is an environmentally focused free browser game. Players develop and manage a city, pursuing individual goals while competing against friends to make citizens happy and make an environmentally sustainable city. PlanItGreen: Organic Farms and Energy Creation Players can…
Scammers are everywhere in the world and the internet is the perfect breeding ground for scammers of all types. Even though, getting scam emails/calls from scammers around the world has been going on for ages now, it’s not often that a Security Researcher from a company like, Malwarebytes gets (nearly) scammed. Scammers: Bait and Switch…
The first batch of Google’s Glass Explorer Edition is ready, and the first units are going to reach users in the coming weeks. Meanwhile, the technical specifications for Google Glass are now public. Google has just released specifications for the augmented reality glasses we’ve all been waiting for, along with documentation for Mirror API –…
Just a year from now and Microsoft will pull the plug on one of its most popular desktop OS’s, Windows XP. This will leave the users, who still love the Operating System, vulnerable to security loopholes. Recently Microsoft issued a clear warning in a blog, asking the users and businesses to switch to a newer…
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So Google Glass is coming. So what? It’s just another one of those many revolutionary products from Google right? Over the years, Google has indulged in almost every product category and given us products making our lives infinitely easier. It’s nothing new. We’ve come to expect such stuff from a ‘search engine’ company. Google has…
BookGorilla: Free e-books in Your Favorite Literary Genres New site BookGorilla alerts readers to Amazon discounts and freebies for ebooks they’ll like. Users sign up for the type of books they read, like sci-fi, young adult, or cookbooks, and receive daily emails offering books in that genre for 99 cents, a penny, or a free…
Please invite the new Facebook Home, Facebook’s desperate plea to stay relevant and cater to the number of addicted cell phone users and social media addicts. But my bluntness should come as no surprise because Geeks Anonymous is overly judgmental with a broken filter. The New Facebook Home Facebook Home is described as the mobile…
Samsung is continuing to launch more devices (and big ones, at that). After the recent announcement of the mid-range Galaxy Win, we now have another smartphone – the Galaxy Mega, which is heading to Europe sometime next month. Galaxy Mega will arrive in 2 sizes – a mammoth 6.3 inch display variant, and a 5.8…
Get Facebook Home via Google Play Finally, Facebook has released its not-so-anticipated Facebook Home launcher and it is available for download via Google Play store. You can download it right now from Play store, however there is a catch, it’s only available for U.S. residents at the moment. So, if you’re not living in the…
After a year of waiting, Cinemagram has finally arrived on your Android smartphone. Cinemagram, a app popular for turning videos into animated GIF images, launched last year on iOS. Think of it as something of an Instagram equivalent for animation, which apparently sells quite well. Nokia ended up launching its own version of a similar…
Recently rumors of Google buying out WhatsApp for $1 billion reached a fever pitch. However, the unified messaging service WhatsApp has denied the claims and has stated that it has no plans to sell itself to the search giant. In a recent talk with AllThingsD, Neeraj Arora, WhatsApp’s Business Development Lead, explained that the company…
Tax Evaders! A Space Invaders-themed Economy Game For Your Browser April in the United States is tax time! Whether you’re anticipating a nice refund, or you’re anxiously sorting your 1099s, if taxes are on your mind, you’ll enjoy blowing off a little steam with Tax Evaders. Tax Evaders is a browser game available to play…
In 2011, Hugh Jackman starred in a film based on Rock-em Sock-em Robots. That sounds like a terrible concept, but the movie, “Real Steel” was actually really good. Jackman played a robo jockey that controlled a large robot that boxes other robots for sport. With an underdog bot, it’s essentially “Rocky” with robots. So when…