They say there are 10 kinds of people in this world: those who understand binary code and those who don't. For the latter half, it's basically the bare-bones of any code that goes through a computer processor, where billions of zeroes and ones come together to create text, images, video and basically anything electronically seen or heard. When I ... [Read More…]
Online ads a new must for politics
Whenever a presidential election year comes around, I can't help but think back and wonder where I was at the last election. I was a bright-eyed college freshman. I was still working at Chuck E. Cheese's, but quickly realizing that I needed to find a job more suited to my chosen field. I was still using MySpace, admittedly less and less as more of ... [Read More…]
Election is a choice between two evils
If there's one thing I have to say about both the Republican and the Democratic candidate in this election, it is that both of them are equally... dreadful. We've seen in the debates in recent weeks that both of them have no desire to work together. They talked over each other, and the debate moderator, and spent more time arguing one miniscule ... [Read More…]
Apparently, everything is like Facebook
Remember when we tackled that MySpace trailer talking about its new design and such? Well, the next week Facebook decided to release their own commercial, if you can call it that. Coming out just after their announcement of 1 billion active users, it could easily be read as a battle cry to claim the other 5 billion on this planet. Let's start with ... [Read More…]
Wellness should be constant initiative
Show of hands: who participated in Wellness Week last week? Looks like it had an OK turnout. Now how many of you even knew it existed and was going on last week? Perhaps you might have been too busy to attend. Don't worry, we're not criticizing you. We think Wellness Week should be much longer than just a week. The oft-cliche'd adage is true: ... [Read More…]
MySpace wants us back, says they’ve changed
Anybody remember their MySpace profile? You know, the one with the putrid green and magenta background adorned with glittery inspirational quotes and hundreds of animated GIFs that would take ages to load even on today's computers? Yeah, we only wish we could forget. It's was especially hard to forget this week when MySpace launched a two-minute ... [Read More…]
What Apple could do with an auto
If you remember the article I wrote in "The Pessimist," our annual satirical issue, I joked briefly about Apple announcing the new iPhone 5G:SUV. But I've been thinking lately: What if it were true? This week, Apple announced the iPhone 5 and as usual, the tech world went bananas over it. But what if Apple instead announced the new iCar, or ... [Read More…]
Direct downloads are a game-changer
If you want to buy the the latest entry in the Super Mario Bros. franchise, you won't have to leave your dorm room, house or other dwelling. For the first time in its history, Nintendo is allowing owners of its 3DS console the ability to buy and download a full, retail game directly to their device. With this move, and plans to continue to make ... [Read More…]
Power of nostalgia keeps retro-game culture alive
In today's forward-thinking world of technology, it's always out with the old and in with the new, and this is a good thing. Technology and its progress impacts and enhances our world in more ways than we realize, or will realize. But a certain amount of press must be given to yesterday's technology: the previous model, the old medium, or the idea ... [Read More…]
iTunes’ customer service falls short
My iTunes account was recently hacked. How it happened, I don't know. It doesn't matter. I knew I had to take action when my account password and security questions stopped working along with various bills for apps I didn't buy started appearing in my inbox. Getting the fraudulent charges removed was the easiest part of this experience: I just ... [Read More…]
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