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Archive for April, 2010

Geopolitical Google

Friday, April 30th, 2010

Google Chrome has now added the one feature that had it lacking in comparison to Mozilla Firefox. By adding geopolitical custom technology, Chrome has now attained the ability to reveal a computer’s world location, allowing for services to determine which stations to provide a host with output from. Chrome’s allowing for its browser to turn [...]

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Google Gone Wild!

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

Little did Wendy Southgate know that when she took her dog out for a walk around the block that she’d become the most photographed woman on Google Earth’s street view function. Her husband happened to use the interactive promotional map to see his house when he noticed almost all of the pictures contained her and [...]

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Funny Internet Comic

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

Check out this awesome comic which makes fun of the work sphere and peoples knowledge of custom technology, or lack thereof, such as the internet. This comic perfectly exemplifies those typical workdays where your boss requests the impossible from you and your left with no idea how to accomplish your task. Just imagine if your [...]

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Lousy Prototype!

Monday, April 26th, 2010

Given the recent event where Apple engineer Gray Powell left his iPhone prototype at a bar (on his birthday), and someone picked it up and sold it to Gizmodo for $5000, it seems quite appropriate to show Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak’s humorous reaction. The new iPhone G4, as we all know, is supposed to be [...]

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Google Goes Local

Friday, April 23rd, 2010

In it’s latest stride to raise the custom technology bar, Google Maps has now added a feature which allows for users to find local businesses, with the restaurant industry being the most popular. You can forget about all of your promotional Zagat surveys, as now your local restaurants are a click away! This new component [...]

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Google Glorifying Green

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

Google has taken it to the next level this Earth Day by using its custom computer technology popularity to address the main environmental issue…the rain forest. By meshing the rain forest in with its custom Google logo, the company is raising promotional awareness to the fact that our rain forest, which provides most of the [...]

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The Chrome Strikes Back

Wednesday, April 21st, 2010

It looks like Google took Flock’s hint, as the custom computer browser now allows for tool add-ons. Some of these add-ons allow for live twitter updates in the Chrome browser, as well as one nifty tool that darkens the rest of your monitor so that you can focus on the webpage you’re viewing! Already the [...]

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The Ultimate Personal Browser Experience

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

Powered by Mozilla architecture, Flock incorporates the latest promotional computer technology to create a web browser that encompasses all the facets of social media networking. This new browser combines all the aspects of features such as Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, and Blogs to allow for rapid access and usage of such social networking sites. This is [...]

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NYC in 3D

Monday, April 19th, 2010

Google Earth has done the amazing by using its custom technology feeds to create a 3-D map of New York City. While many of you may think this reminds you of the landscape from a certain promotional game (Grand Theft Auto IV anyone?), this nifty view of the world’s most famous city displays how effective [...]

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Twitter Predicts Box Office Hits?

Monday, April 12th, 2010

Well it seems that in the latest study of the possibilities custom computer technology social media sites offer, Twitter has been shown to be an extremely accurate predictor for how well movies will do in the box office. Research on movie revenues that scientists used Twitter to predict showed results in which the Twitter-based predictions [...]

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