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There has been a big push in recent months and years to get kids into coding. This is no easy task. One of the hardest things, when starting out, is actually seeing and visualizing any sort of results. This is where Trinket - formerly Coursefork - comes in. Trinket is an incredibly unique product, and we recently [...]
We have smartphones, smart watches, Google Glass, Fitbits, but the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS wants to usher in the next wave of smart products as early as next year. The Fraunhofer Institute's FitnessSHIRT measures and tracks vital signs and physiological signals
Often, it is hard to see the big-picture, in terms of projects and/or products. It is the whole can't see the forest for the trees argument. If you get bogged down in all of the minuscule details, you miss the big picture. Though you could make an argument in favor of grinding out, and staying focused [...]
There is a whole lot of change and rollover at large companies. An employee is hired to do one job, but that position may change drastically within the span of years, months, or even days. This change and transformation of a position may be good, or it may be horrible. Most of the time, [...]
Purple Haze earns App of the Day honor from appsbar.com Appsbar has awarded its App of the Day honor to Purple Haze for showcasing how independent products and services can be promoted and sold through mobile platforms thanks to the DIY app builder at appsbar.com The Purple Haze app serves as the mobile presence for [...]
Have you recently gotten a new iPhone 5S, 5C or Samsung Galaxy Note? Are you looking for the best screen protection on the market? If that's the case add the Armorz Stealth Extreme Lite shatterproof screen protectors to your holiday list of awesome stocking stuffers. Unlike the flimsy, plastic screen protectors flooding the accessory market, [...]
If you're hardcore into tech and gaming or a game developer than you are more than familiar with GDC or the Game Developer's Conference. Unlike conventions like E3 GDC brings the best game developers from across the country and around the world together to share ideas, hear great speakers, learn and see the next generation [...]
The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office recently posted a patent application that Apple filed way back in 2012. The patent reveals a new take on touchscreen input. This new technology would allow Apple devices to detect and incorporate the pressure of touches.
This may be the holiday season Google has been waiting for with their Chromebook computers. With everything moved to the cloud, the computing requirements for today's laptops are much less than what they used to be, and that strategy is paying off. Venturebeat reported over the weekend that Chromebooks saw a major surge this holiday [...]
Personal computer users, fed up with having to pay hundreds of dollars for single-use license installations of Microsoft Office or Office for Mac, are now simply leaving these extra items off new laptop purchases. Instead, they're working within more efficient, free solutions: specifically, Google Drive and Apache OpenOffice. The cloud service Google Drive is at [...]
Carol Jackson has been teaching seventh and eighth graders outside of Chicago for nearly 20 years. Over the last two years she's started to hear a lot about a Minecraft from her students. "We had a halloween party and a bunch of my students came dressed with boxes on their heads" she told us at [...]
AllCast, a new Android application (still in beta) that allows users to play local media on Roku players, Apple TV, Xbox, and other DLNA devices. AllCast streams content directly from Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, or your mobile devices' local storage directly to one of the supported devices.
It is pretty shocking how many reliable alternative there really are to cable and satellite TV. However, the Roku 3 and Chromecast really stand out.
Other than "the internet of things" collaboration is all the rage this year. Earlier this year Box introduced their Box Notes app which allows users to collaborate on notes at the same time. This is something that Google has offered for years through their Google Docs platform and now Google Drive. In both instances users [...]
Ever since Google opened Chromecast to developers, on 3 February 2014, we have been seeing an influx of fun and creative apps. From those that play music, or allow you to play games, or even display masterpiece works of art on your TV. However, on Monday, Google released its very own app for the Chromecast: Photowall.
One of the most unsexy features of iOS 7 is probably the most useful. Apple introduced a kill switch feature in the last version of iOS. This allows the owner to remotely wipe and disable their iPhone if it gets lost or stolen, rendering the unit dead if it slipped into the wrong hands. Technobuffalo.com [...]
We reported on Saturday that Apple was planning on launching it's in-car service this week. As expected Apple announced "Car Play" Monday morning. The new Car Play system allows drivers to use and control features that they are used to in an experience very familiar, putting functionality you're used to seeing on an iOS device [...]
In May 2013, developer Dong Nguyen released a free game called Flappy Bird. You may have heard of it. The game enjoyed relative obscurity until early 2014, when it suddenly ricocheted into popularity, becoming the #1 app in both the iPhone and Android markets. Then, on February 9, Dong Nguyen took Flappy Bird down. Even [...]
Microsoft Word is an excellent word processing program, the best there is even. Now that that is out of the way, the $109.99 à la carte price tag - or the lowest $139.99 price for the Microsoft Office Suite - is pricey if you are on a budget. That said, there are tons of freeware or open-source alternatives to Word. Some are good, and some are not so good. We went through every one we could find, and the five below stand out as the best offerings.
We cover a lot of great crowdfunding campaigns here on techfaster.com. On May 21st we reported on the 360cam from Giroptic. The 360° cam by Giroptic is the first ultra high definition camera that breaks through the barriers of the frame and captures what’s going on up, down and all around. It does this with [...]
