Wednesday, October 31, 2012

How to get Android notifications in Windows.Download it at GR!


Working at a computer sometimes means switching focus to your smartphone or tablet when it bleeps. DeskNotifier pushes these messages to your desktop so you can handle (or ignore) them quickly.

Does Anyone Still Even Have Audio Cassettes That Need To Be Digitized?

Hammacher's hawking this over-sized walkman look-alike featuring an iPhone/iPod Touch dock that lets you convert cassette tapes into MP3s via an accompanying app. But does anyone out there even have audio cassettes that can't be more easily replaced with a quick iTunes search?

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

How to Take Great Photos with a Bad Camera


Someone in your life still uses a crappy, ancient, point-and-shoot digital camera. Maybe it's you. Maybe it's your mom. And at some point, on some vacation, or some holiday dinner, you're going to get shot with it—the digital equivalent of a FunSaver.

Monday, October 29, 2012

How To Erase Your Digital Footprint


Think about all the things you’ve used your Internet for in the past 24 hours. You’ve probably checked your email, updated your Facebook status, paid some bills through online banking, read up on the latest news, and took the time before bed to video chat with a far-flung childhood friend. Even after logging out and turning off your computer, the information you’ve just accessed or created continues to wander the great plains of the World Wide Web.  This information that we leave behind about ourselves on a daily basis is known as our digital footprint.

A New York Man may spend 40 Years in Jail for Pretending to Own Facebook


Paul Ceglia, an upstate New York wood pellet salesman who claimed to co-own Facebook with Zuckerman was arrested last week at his home on fraud charges. Associated Press reports that he may just face the next 40 years in one of America's finest penitentiary institutions, compliments of the Jury. So if you're tempted to fib and tell your friends and business associates that you own, oohh let's say Twitter, learn a lesson from this sad guy and don't!

Friday, October 26, 2012

Instead of a phone number, phone users will get a unique user name. The first step was made from Sprint with ''StarMe''

Capitalizing on our increasing loss of memorization skills, Sprint is today launching a new product that will let users replace their usual phone number with their name. And the product has perhaps the best brand name ever: StarStar Me.

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

New Malware Can Steal Your Payment Info from Your Browser in Real Time

"Being hacked" is an amorphous catch-all of a term. Typically, it means your computer has been infected with some kind of malware—a trojan or keylogger or something. And one, theMan in the Browser scam, just got a lot more sophisticated: Now it works in real time.