Articles Posted in 2010
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A future in Green news
If you’re environmentally conscious, if you long to walk with a smaller carbon footprint, if you want to connect to like minded green thinkers, there’s news for you. It’s the Mother Nature Network, an online…
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Everyone can jam with the Wired Composer
Conventional wisdom says that composing music requires high levels of skill and training, with the possible exception of the occasional genius. But composer Tod Machover believes that all we need is a little bit of…
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How we are in the new economy index
The state with the highest innovation index in 2010 is Massachusetts. It’s followed by Washington and California, with Maryland and Delaware rounding out the top five. Massachusetts is also tops in high tech jobs, in…
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Washing your keyboard and other tech myths
Yes Virginia, you can put your keyboard through the dishwasher. But not so fast. If your keyboard is wireless or has batteries, this is not advised. Any technology with batteries or wireless capabilities will not…
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Awareness apps make life better
In times like these when the frantic holiday season leads to frayed nerves and darkened moods, rest assured there’s an app – waiting to bring solace. In this case the app is Awareness. Download it…
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Google goes Christmas and a little bit more
Today is the day. Google unveils its annual Holiday Doodle that will appear on its home page over Christmas. While we tend to think of Google as the behemoth search engine, book scanning, smart phone…
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A gorilla under the tree
Getting smart phones? If they’re under your tree this year, then you could say you’ve got a gorilla under your tree. But it’s not in the glue and it may not be 2,000 pounds, but…
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A Serious Artist
“A great poet or a serious artist should be able to perceive or distinguish more clearly than ordinary men the forms and objects within the range of ordinary experience and ‘be able to make men…
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Hang a right but not in London
For all those brown paper packages fastened with tape, arriving on doorsteps across the world, chances are the trucks they came in never made a left turn. Using route mapping software, UPS has organized its…
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