Illustration: Don Clark
It’s a local news chestnut: Crooks are stealing debit card PINs from ATMs and gas pumps! Your card could be next! But in these days of complex fraud-alert algorithms, RFID scanners, and embedded chips, shouldn’t we be [...]
IE9 running on Windows 7
Microsoft has released Internet Explorer 9, the first major update for Microsoft’s browser in nearly two years. Internet Explorer 9 is a huge leap forward for the IE line, bringing much-needed web standards support, better performance and hardware acceleration for faster graphics and animations on supported PCs.
To upgrade Internet Explorer, download [...]
Some of Top 40′s biggest hooks were born in the bedroom.
But the days of the Tascam cassette studios and the delicate Nagra reel-to-reels are long gone. Now, the freshest ideas don’t get cut to tape, they get converted directly to bits, and there are a slew of [...]
A new version of Rdio’s iPhone app is available, and if you’re a fan of the music streaming service, you should download it immediately. If you haven’t yet turned the corner on subscription-based streaming, this update makes it worth a look.
Some of Rdio’s best tools for discovering new music were previously only available on the [...]
The new Twitter app (left) is a tidied-up redo of the old Tweetie (right)
The opening of the Mac app store last week occasioned the release of a long-awaited official Twitter desktop client for the Mac. It’s actually an upgrade to Tweetie, an [...]
