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Peer-to-Peer Search Engine YaCy Takes on Google
In the world of Web search, you’re fairly limited as to what you can actually use. Sure, there are more than a handful of search engines out there, but a vast majority of them have to lean on Google to supply results when their index fails to deliver a useful result. Some of these search [...]
Minecraft as an Educational Video Game
I’m a senior in high school at the present, which means I grew up as technology became more and more prominent in education. When I was in elementary school, we were taught, albeit without much success, how to type and how to use Microsoft Office to an extent. Nowadays, my teachers use Elmos, Promethean boards, [...]
Top 10 Songs About Tuesday
Sure, everyone always goes on and on about how miserable Mondays make them. If you live for the weekend, of course, you’ll lament its passing and look toward the week ahead as nearly endless. But at least you probably have some of the good spirit drummed up by the weekend that’s passed to keep you [...]
Five Ways to Keep Your Carpet Clean
This past weekend, I took the opportunity to do some fall cleaning around the home office. Boxes that had been piling up in the closet from our wedding, various gadget splurges, and God only knows when were finally gotten rid of. I finally got the internals cleaned in my home server, and found a few [...]
Winter Preparedness (For Geeks)
I grew up in the Midwest, so I’m used to harsh winters (sub-zero temperatures and all). Snow and ice are par for the course if you grew up anywhere in the US other than the Southwest. I’d much rather be chilly than sweaty! Still, being the great indoorsman that I am, controlled climates are preferred [...]
Five Reasons You May (or May Not) Want to Buy a Nintendo 3DS
The holiday season is upon us and some of the best deals of the year are quickly popping up at your favorite store. One gadget you may have overlooked in recent years could actually be one of the most useful. The Nintendo 3DS may not have the capacitive touch screen or wide-spread and diverse app [...]
Five Ways to Spend Thanksgiving
Growing up, I never thought of Thanksgiving as a holiday to get all excited about. Sure, it was nice to get the day off of school, see relatives, and shovel enough butter-drenched mashed potatoes into my face to keep me full for the next week, but to me it lacked the pageantry of Halloween, the [...]
Top 10 Songs About Robots
The idea of the mechanical man has captivated human imagination for as long as the first cornerstones of civilization were set. Toiling in turnip fields from dawn to dusk and hoisting gallons of water in clay pots back to the village from the river two miles away may have had a big part in this. [...]
How to Protect Your iPad or Kindle from Drops of Up to 1,300 Feet
This is not a sponsored post. I just think this is a pretty darned nifty application of modern technology. All opinions are 100% mine, but the video evidence presented is 200% jaw-droppingly incredible. Dodge trucks are built ram tough. Timex watches have been known to take a lickin’ but keep on tickin’. The Energizer Bunny [...]
Education and Technology: Can They Coexist?
When I went to high school, being caught in class with a Sony Walkman (the cassette playing version, as CDs were still a pretty uncommon indulgence only afforded to the rich kids who didn’t mingle with us public school peasants anyway) was punishable by detention. Now, kids have a wide assortment of technology that, depending [...]
