And so we close the book on another Presidential election. Most of the stories reported were about the long lines in Florida, and what states were trending to which candidate. Then there was the story about a software engineer that discovered that the voting machine he was using, was registering votes for the wrong candidate. Was this a hacking attempt to steal the election?
Super Mario Brothers 3 is easily one of the greatest games of all time. I remember being a kid and playing through the game about 100 plus times, I even play it to this day . You might remember the "Warp Whistle" which would take to another world when used. We always assumed Mario knew how to play it - Wow, we were wrong.
It doesn't matter what side of the political spectrum you fall on - you can agree on one thing: you're sick of politics. We're sick of them too, especially on Facebook. Good news though, you can hide everything political thanks to some guys with pocket protectors.
I'm sure many of us know the difference between cable TV and over the air TV. If not, over the air is free for anyone with an antenna to pick up and watch. While cable uses antennas to pick up signals and strengthen and rebroadcast them to subscribers. A company that gives you the ability to stream your own over the air signals to your personal devices. Broadcasters say they need to be paid licensing fees.
This Sandy is turning out to be a real b****. Last Halloween was ruined due to weather and now it looks as though this one will be compromised as well. There are constant news updates on television and websites and we are keeping you up-to-date as well on our website. So if your power does happen to go out (and you don't have back-up), here are five things you can do to keep yourself from going outside to play.
Being a Ham Radio operator, one of the things we do is volunteer for helping in times of emergency with communications. We try and stay ready for those emergency situations and here's some of the tech we use and you can use to stay informed on what is going on. I posted a story about this kind of stuff before, and wanted to bring it up again for this situation.
You know how you like to swear at your smartphone or your computer because it's just downloading stuff way to slow? Well, some math nerds and researchers at MIT may have a solution to that problem. Use algebra to speed it up.
A women in Norway named Linn owns a Kindle and had "purchased" 30 or so books from Amazon for it. According to her, she used it simply for read because she travels a lot. One day she went to use it and found it had been wiped clean and she no longer had access to her account. Was she hacked? Nope, Amazon had shut her account off and wiped her Kindle remotely. When she asked why, she got the run around. Why did they do it? They won't say.
Lacuna Coil are making sure their faithful followers are able to keep up with the latest news from the band by launching their own social network-fan community. The group teamed with Mobile Backstage to create the application, which will allow fans easier access to all kinds of Lacuna Coil information.
There's a new set top box in town! Boxee TV, which is to be released in the near future and is supposed to give you more flexibility in watching not only your own content on your HDTV, but now the ability to plug in an antenna to watch over the air broadcasts, and DVR as well. But there is a catch. Isn't there always?
And because we can't do cat videos all day every day,* here are ten amazing facts about the internet. From how many likes there are on Facebook daily to the actual weight of the internet, this video just might blow your mind. (Hence the title.) Learn something new today, so you can watch a cat stuck in a jar over and over guilt-free!
News out of the FCC this week is that they gave the cable companies, permission to encrypt their basic cable channels. This means in the near future you won't be able to just hook up your TV to the cable in your house or apartment and see a picture. You'll need something that decrypts the signal. But will you have to pay for that?!
