Daily Archives: February 22, 2012
Why your computer is becoming like your phone
Editor’s note: Pete Cashmore is founder and CEO of Mashable, a popular blog about tech news and digital culture. He writes regular columns about social media and tech for CNN.com.
(CNN) — Apple released Mountain Lion to developers last week, a new operating system that will make your desktop computer work more like your phone than ever before.
The trend is clear: The desktop operating system will merge with the mobile OS in the coming years. The question is: Why?
Let’s start with the trend itself. First off, Apple is integrating cloud services much more deeply in Mountain Lion than any previous operating system. That means your music, photos, calendars, contacts, emails and more can now stay in sync across your phone,
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How to kill time without looking at your phone
Editor’s note: Brenna Ehrlich and Andrea Bartz are the sarcastic brains behind humor blog and book “Stuff Hipsters Hate.” Got a question about etiquette in the digital world? Contact them at netiquette@cnn.com.
(CNN) — During one’s bustling life there are a collection of moments — fragments out of time — that afford one a sense of slow-down reflection. A kind of reprieve from the mania that is living.
The 15 seconds it takes for the light to turn green. The 30 seconds waiting in line for one’s morning coffee. The minute-and-a-half of unsupervised freedom you get before your boss climbs out from under his/her desk, wipes the tears from his/her scarlet face and resumes steering the good ship Your Job.
And how do many of us pass those few free seconds when time slows down, the breeze buffets
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Review: ‘UFC Undisputed 3′ a big brawler
For all the tweaks to grappling and submissions, there is still nothing that beats a great knockout.
The first two titles in THQ’s mixed martial arts franchise showed signs of a contender in the making, but UFC Undisputed 3 solidifies its standing as the best MMA series available.
The game is a simulation of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, starring dozens of fighters across several weight classes, including Brock Lesnar, Quinton “Rampage” Jackson and Georges St. Pierre.
When players boot up UFC Undisputed 3, they’ll choose how to tackle grappling, one of several key changes for the series. In previous releases, players had to perform half-circle gestures with the right thumbstick to change position or block opponents. Now, they can choose a simpler layout requiring flicks to the left or right.
After choosing their grappling style, they can opt to revisit the game’s robust tutorial, which carefully
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Microsoft lodges EU complaint against Motorola
Frederic J. Brown, AFP/Getty Images Micrsoft says Google’s Motorola Mobility is trying to block the sales of Windows PCs, Xbox game consoles and other products.
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Google celebrates scientist Hertz’s birthday
Happy birthday Heinrich Hertz!
Google is celebrating Hertz, who proved that electricity travels in waves, with an animated doodle for his 155th birthday.
Hertz used a rudimentary transmitter and receiver to prove physicist James Maxwell’s theory that electricity, light and magnetism were all connected and traveled in waves, according to an account of his experiment by the Christian Science Monitor. Radio, television and countless other modern technologies are based on Hertz’s experiment.
At the time, however, Hertz thought his experiment useless.
“It’s of no use whatsoever,” he said. “This is just an experiment that proves Maestro Maxwell was right, we just have these mysterious electromagnetic waves that we cannot see with the naked eye. But they are there.”
PHOTOS: Google doodles through the years
The doodle itself is an animated .gif that (if you squint
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