Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Facebook Privacy


The new facebook privacy settings have been put up. you can make your profile private on a post to post bases. you can make certain pictures, videos, and status' private. You must change your privacy settings so you do not show up on an ad on someone else's profile. also friends of friends can see all of your information. and you could be "facebook stalked"...

2009 best of Apple


some of the best selling apps for the year of 2009 are the sims 3 and oregon trail. som of the best selling movies are Twilight and Star Trek. The top selling song was Boom Boom Pow by the Black Eyed Peas. i think that it is very sad that it was the best selling song since there are so many other songs that have lyrics that actually mean something...

Driod Gets names "gadget of the year"


Verizon's Driod phone was recently named gadget of the year over at&t's iPhone. it was mainly because verizon has a much better network than at&t. it is also because the Droid has a physical keyboard and a touch screen, rather than the keyboard on the screen. Driod is the "best phone on verizon"

at&t's coverage sucks


at&t admis to having terrible coverage in San Fran and New York. they are planning to charge more money. They say that they are working on their network

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Windows 7 complaints


In late october Windows came out with a new system called Windows 7. Like all other windows systems, there have already been many complaints about problems. 31% of the clients that bought it have reported problems about the new system. The complaints have mostly been about the installation or application of windows 7. Other users experience glitches even after they fully upload the system. Hopefully as they make more changes, the system will get better and more people will be happy with it.

CrunchPad renamed joojoo


the CrunchPad was not going to be released but the company renamed it and released it on their own. It has a 12.1 inch touch screen and goes directly to a web browser with internet access via WiFi. Right now the sale price of the device is $500. Fuse garage claims they never had a contract with Michael Arrington. but he says they broke a contract they had. The device goes on sale on friday so we will see how well it sells.

apple buys lala


Apple has recently bought the music streaming service, Lala.com. Lala makes streams available at a higher stream and lower cost then their competetors. Lala even has an iPhone app that lets you download the stream straight to your phone for as little as 10 cents a song. The app is not available to the public yet. who knows, it might be better than iTunes...

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

TechCrunch is dead


TechCrunch was a device that was names one of the 10 most amazing products of the year by popular mechanics. Apparently the product is now "dead" mostly because of greed, jealousy, and miscommunication. There was a falling out with there business parter and there might not be a future of the product.