High tech Halloween

It seems as though modern technology can do nothing less than enhance our wilder dreams. Halloween is no exception. I distinctly remember “that house” when trick or treating as a child. It was always the house on the end of our street that was decorated from top to bottom every Halloween with hanging ghosts in [...]

Experiencing HTML5: The Wilderness Downtown

This incredible interactive film by Chris Milk, featuring “We Used To Wait,” is built in HTML5 for use in Google Chrome. ChromeExperiments.com explains it as, “Choreographed windows, interactive flocking, custom rendered maps, real-time compositing, procedural drawing, 3D canvas rendering… this Chrome Experiment has them all. “The Wilderness Downtown” is an interactive interpretation of Arcade Fire’s [...]

Self-driving cars. What next?

Google is at it again, this time developing technology that will drive your car for you. Advantages include less travel time, quicker reaction to traffic due to 360 degree awareness and higher productivity as drivers no longer need to watch the road while commuting to work. This write-up by CNN asks a fundamental question – [...]

Step aside ow.ly & bit.ly, there’s a new URL shortener in town: GOO.GL

URL redirection and monitoring has exploded since before the creation of Twitter. Some of the more famous URL shortening services include ow.ly, bit.ly and TinyURL. Google has entered the scene with it’s own product, Goo.gl. It was originally a proprietary way for Google to abbreviate its Web addresses within services such as Google News (for saving article [...]

Google Alerts: Keeping you in the know

Small business owners don’t have enough hours in a day to run their business, let alone keep track of industry news and trends all while keeping a keen eye on their competition. Enter Google Alerts. This handy service practically does the work for you, leaving you to focus on managing your business. Google Alerts not [...]

Where to Recycle Electronics and How to Do it Responsibly

We receive numerous calls from our clients and even the general public about how to dispose of electronics. Whether it be a concern for safely disposing of the hazardous materials computer equipment can house or a concern for one’s privacy and security contained in old hard drives, many people don’t know how to go about [...]

Cutting the Cord

As the technology industry continues to embrace all things wireless, the gadgets that still hold on to their cord seem to be tying us down tighter than ever. It seems ironic that devices touting their convenience and mobility have yet to still be plugged in to recharge every day or two. However, these cords may [...]