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Field Trip: New Pop-Up Location Based Guide for Android Niantic Labs’ new Field Trip app, now available for Android, is a pop-up location-based guide to interesting things all round you. This augmented reality guide would allow you to walk down an unfamiliar street, and to immediately access and know what others already know about that…
Rumors Flying From hardware specs to the names of the consoles, rumours surrounding Sony and Microsoft’s next gen gaming machines have been flying thick and fast in recent weeks. When will they be released? By most accounts, we should expect the machines this year, and, if we have learned anything from history, we can…
Is big-brother facial recognition after you? Fear not! Facial recognition software has come a long way recently. So much so, that it had become what some people feel is a blatant invasion of privacy. From Google Images to Facebook and even mannequins with cameras hidden behind one of their eyes, the technology with a ‘big…
No Hulu Ads, a Google Chrome extension, promises an enhanced viewing experience in Hulu without the attacks of TV ads. A lot of users, including you, who frequently use the Internet are often swamped with the common problem over and over again – how are you supposed to go ahead and enjoy a marathon of your…
Searching with Google Chrome, More Secure than Ever Google Chrome version 25 is tweaked by Google a bit in order to give its users a more secure connection. The Big G has finally come to a realization that enabling SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) during web browsing, whether or not a user is signed in, is…
Welcome to Geeks Anonymous These past several days have been a highly eventful week for geeks. From Facebook’s feature add-on that challenges search engine juggernauts to the biggest file storage breakthrough of our time in Mega. Welcome to Geeks Anonymous where I give you my personal perception on newsworthy events altering the tech world. Basically I…
Aaron Swartz committed suicide on January 11 The news revolving around the death of Reddit co-founder Aaron Swartz has been revolving around the Internet for quite some time now. Swartz’s uncle, Michael Wolf, confirmed the news by stating that his nephew took his own life in his New York city apartment. Swartz’s attorney, Elliot Peters, also…
Now, you can send a message to Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook and you can even have it delivered straight to his Inbox – just pay $100 and you’re good to go Recently, various reports about Facebook charging its users $100 to be able to send a message that goes straight to Mark Zuckerberg’s Inbox have been sprouting…
The powers that be, in the computer industry, have decided it’s high time they sped up the data-transfer speed of USB 3.0. to 10 Gbps. Unfortunately for Thunderbolt, this move could make it all but obsolete. A decision to speed up data-transfer will solve problems with external SSD storage, but it will also make Thunderbolt…
Facebook adds revamping energy to search engine competition with their new Graph Search Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently introduced to the media Facebook’s new addition in Graph Search. The young CEO, head of one of the fastest growing dynasties of the era, says this addition may be the best yet. What sets Graph Search apart…
Old-school Blackberry enthusiasts everywhere are chomping at the proverbial bit in anticipation of Research In Motion’s (RIM) release of their new Blackberry 10 line. Yep, just when you thought the Blackberry era had ended, here they come again. Long, sleek and sporting a full touch screen, the new Blackberry 10 is oddly similar to the…
In today’s post-physical map world we rely too much on our new and nifty gadgets for route guidance. There are many people who trust their GPS devices or even Google Maps blindly, without even using a little common sense. This is what happened to an elderly European woman. Who drove nearly 900 miles in the…
In a world where creating an almost-but-not-quite-cool, non-licensed, total knock-off theme park is awesome and getting the go ahead from the intellectual property owner to create the real thing is totally lame, there’s World of Warcraft knock-off, World Joyland, in Changzhou, China. Now you no longer have to settle for knock off electronics, video…
So, you thought the Nexus 7 was the cheapest tablet manufactured by Asus? Well, think again because Asus has single-handedly launched a new 7” tablet with a price tag of just $149. Yes, for real. The new tab is known as Asus MeMo Pad and resembles the Nexus 7 in terms of design and style….
Mega is said to be largest, most secure cloud storage service to date. For the geeks who aren’t aware Kim Dotcom, formerly known as Kim Schmitz, is the well-known founder of Megaupload, the early generation file hosting service which fell under government possession due to Dotcom’s alleged copyright infringement. Understand that Megaupload was not seized…