I just learned that John Lennon and I share the same birthday, just 44 years apart. John Lennon, being the world famous singer-songwriter of Beatles fame, and I just being yours truly, Google has wished only Mr. Lennon a happy 70th birthday both today and tomorrow with an embedded YouTube video as the Google logo. The logo is static at first load but if you press the play … [Read more...]
Facebook Announces Groups and Other Upcoming Features
Facebook held a live-stream just moments ago on Facebook Live where Mark Zuckerberg highlighted two things coming up. He also explained the "lock-down" that the press has speculated about which gave the Facebook dev teams 60 productive days wrapping up projects. He also highlighted the recent changes to photos with Photozap, making things look more professional by trimming … [Read more...]
Adobe Releases Quarterly 9.4 Patch For Reader and Acrobat
To complement the September 20th patch Adobe released for Flash Player, Adobe has now patched Adobe Reader and Acrobat. This is the quarterly update that would normally have been scheduled for next week but it was accelerated due to vulnerabilities actively being exploited in the wild. With this large patch, it is addressing 23 vulnerabilities known in Reader and Acrobat. You … [Read more...]
Wikipedia Testing Article Assessment Feature
Upon looking through Wikipedia last week, doing research for the previous article on Ultrinsic.com, I noticed the site has implemented a change that incorporates article ranking. Rating if an article is "well-sourced", neutral, complete, and readable seems like information the free encyclopedia would like to know but also seems like it could be a move towards social news sites … [Read more...]
Google Buys BlindType
Back in the middle of August, I posted a video from BlindType at Jason Off The Clock showing the madness that is BlindType. The video shows how BlindType adjusts its keyboard to fit what you typed very accurately. Since that posting, they've made another video available that shows BlindType working on an Android phone as well as the … [Read more...]