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For Netbooks, Windows 7 and Chrome Make a Perfect Match

The two together make pretty good use of a netbook’s most limited resources: screen size and processor power. The result is a surprisingly pleasant combination for browsing, working in GMail and Google Docs, and other lightweight tasks. Over the ...

From DYLAN F. TWENEY, Wired,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation

Google Chrome OS: Ditch Your Hard Drives, the Future Is the Web

Apps in the cloud is all well and good, but basically a ChromeOS computer will be useless if you don’t have an internet connection (or a poor one)? And all of your data will be on Google’s servers so if there is ever a problem with their servers ...

From DYLAN TWENEY, Wired,  19 Nov 2009

Hackers Mod, Overclock and Reprogram Their Calculators

Benjamin Moody spent two months trying to crack the programming code of his TI-83 graphing calculator, a process that involved finding the prime factors of enormous numbers. When he was done, he posted instructions on a calculator-hacking website, so ...

From DYLAN F. TWENEY, Wired,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Texas Instruments

Nov. 17, 1790: A Rather One-Sided Affair

1790: Mathematician, astronomer and physicist August Ferdinand Möbius is born in Schulpforta, Saxony (in modern-day Germany). Möbius has name recognition today because of the Möbius strip, which is a clever topological surface with only one side and ...

From DYLAN TWENEY, Wired,  17 Nov 2009

Why I'm Not Getting a Droid Today

I’ve been testing the Verizon Droid for the past few days, and it’s an awesome phone. But even though I’m eager to ditch my iPhone and eighty-six AT&T, I’m not going to switch to Verizon for the Droid. In some features, such as the screen, it comes out ...

From DYLAN TWENEY, Wired,  6 Nov 2009

Related Topics: AT&T Inc.,  Twitter Inc,  T-Mobile

Beer + Videogames = Kegerator for the Ages

The Arkeg would seem to have almost everything a Wired reader (or editor) would like: Beer. And videogames. What else is there? Indeed, we’ve enjoyed playing (and drinking) with the Arkeg for the few short weeks that it has been in our offices for ...

From DYLAN F. TWENEY, Wired,  29 Oct 2009

Related Topics: WIRED Magazine

Times Editor Lets Apple ‘Slate’ News Slip — Sorta

New York Times executive editor Bill Keller may have let slip something about an upcoming Apple tablet — but you have to make a lot of assumptions to interpret his comment as confirmation that an Apple tablet is really coming. Speaking to the digital ...

From DYLAN F. TWENEY, Wired,  26 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Bill Keller,  New York Times Company,  WIRED Magazine

Canon’s Svelte S90 Will Make Camera Geeks Swoon

It’s only slightly bigger than the smallest of compact cameras — and fits nicely in a jeans pocket — but Canon’s S90 is packed with features that will make serious photographers sit up and take notice. First of all, there’s that lens: 28-105mm ...

From DYLAN F. TWENEY, Wired,  22 Oct 2009

Related Topics: WIRED Magazine

Interactive Art Pushes Boundaries of Viewer, Artist

Stand in front of her work, and you’ll soon be waving your arms, walking around, spinning or hopping to figure out how your movements get translated into the abstract, colorful strokes on the screen. “What it feels like is that the visuals are just ...

From DYLAN F. TWENEY, Wired,  21 Oct 2009

Related Topics: WIRED Magazine

D-Link Security Camera Will Incur Your Rage

Who in these paranoid, voyeuristic times hasn't dreamed of installing a webcam on a balcony, in a backyard or the bedroom, just to keep an eye on things from afar? D-Link offers a solution with its $270 DHA-390, a webcam kit designed to make remote ...

From DYLAN TWENEY, Wired,  8 Oct 2009

Related Topics: WIRED Magazine

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