Google to Release Chrome OS This Fall, With a Netbook?

Earlier this week, it was announced that Google would release its Chrome OS this autumn for free.

“We are working on bringing the device later this fall,” said Google vice president of product management Sundar Pichai at CompuTex Taipei, Asia’s biggest IT trade show. “It’s something which we are very excited by … We expect it to reach millions of users on day one,” he said. Read the rest of this entry »

Proper Use of the iPad

The iPad. Oh, the iPad. Recently launched and already hacked but what do you show off first? Emulation.

The video above is showing off a jailbroken iPad playing two N64 games, Super Smash Bros. and Super Mario 64. It looks good. Great, almost, if the sound wasn’t so, well, emulated. Sound has always been a problem for emulators. and then there’s the control issue which just looks painful, but who cares? You can play N64 games on your brand new iPad! Now, when your friends laugh at you for having one, you can show them that.

I still wish I had one.

Video: N64 emulator running on hacked iPad via CrunchGear

This is Why I Want an iPad

For something I could use to help me along getting myself better known on the web, take some notes, and check my email, among other features? Well, maybe, but I could do that with any old application on a tablet or cell phone even, but could I do it in a geek-enough style? Thanks to an iPad application called “Captain’s Log”, I can!

If anything, the iPad is a better version of Star Trek’s PADD (Personal Access Display Device), but for the last few years, PDAs, tablets, and the like have been able to do the same tasks as the PADD, but the iPad brings more sophisticated software and now, thanks to Captain’s Log, the look and feel of vintage Star Trek, though all it really is, is a spiffy skin for popular social networking tools, but as gimmicky as it may seem, it gives people a taste of the future, and a dash of Star Trek tech fulfillment.

This is the kind of tech and whimsical geeky stuff I could easily spend money on. If I had any.

Captain’s Log app turns your iPad into a Star Trek PADD via geek.com

Google Going Social with Google Buzz

Earlier today, Google announced its push into social networking with Google Buzz which will allow users to share status updates, photos, and videos in a new Gmail tab called Google Buzz. Android and iPhone users can expect to use Buzz through a web-based application that will allow real-time updates that will update to your Google Buzz feed that can show up on a new version of Google’s mobile maps. Google says that about 1% of current users can expect to see it pop-up for them (not me )and the rest will just have to wait over the week. There’s a video after the jump that explains the wonderful uses of Google Buzz.
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Happy Chocolate Hangover Day!

And, I guess, normal hangovers are included…oh and Day of the Dead. No, not the movie. Anyway, regardless, you may have either drank too much alcohol, ate too much chocolate, or both. Me? I just had too much sugar while playing Guild Wars for their Halloween event. It seems ArenaNet finally got around to adding some horrifying quests for the holiday and they were a welcome addition to the festivities, which leads me to believe Wintersday may get something new as well. Hopefully.

Anyway, aside from that, I have yet to get Windows 7 on my computer, only because, as you may have guessed, I am lazy, but I got the student upgrade which has had problem after problem after problem, but that won’t happen to me. I can’t be bothered with this stuff not working. That and MS sorta fixed it by releasing the ISOs.

Oh, and, with it being November, not only do we get to set out clocks an hour back, I get to look forward to the Friday after thanksgiving, and the Monday after Black Friday, oh, and the first week of November! All of those days will have absolutely fantastic sales going on in stores around the states and online, and I will be poor shortly there after. Of course if it’s anything like last year, my wallet will keep warm. Or maybe it’s not just me and Black Friday is dying.