The Progression of Captchas

Google’s reCaptcha software has allowed for reducing the amount of bots taking part in communications on the internet, whether that be making accounts or commenting on articles. ReCaptcha, however, requires one to type, with some of the characters being difficult to read. Recently, many competitors have arisen to fight the prevalence of reCaptcha, with each…

Tablet Wars: Who’s Winning?

    With the recent releases of the Surface, iPad, and Nexus family, there are now quite a few tablets on the market, but which of them is the best to buy?            1.       Apps Which has the best apps? Surface – Windows 8 – “Modern” apps, which can be downloaded…

The Elusive Bird’s IPO: Twitter

Don’t know what IPOs are? Ready a quick article about them here. Though there has not been any official information regarding Twitter’s IPO, there are rumors that the company may go public soon. After Facebook (FB) and Groupon’s (GRPN) stocks suffered heavy losses when going public, is it still worth it for Twitter to do the…

Google Fiber: Internet access for all

On July 26, Google declared war on other American internet service providers (ISPs) when they formally announced Google Fiber, a new move towards offering fiber internet in the United States. Google Fiber offers a service that, when completed, will be strides ahead of any other internet in the United States today. Google offers two different…

Website of the Day: All Is Not Lost

I love OK Go. They prove that music videos can be original, imaginative works of art, rather than just closeup shots of good-looking people dancing suggestively. (Besides, they sound pretty awesome, too!) One of my favourites is “All Is Not Lost.” If you use Google Chrome (high five!), go here to see the video with…

Nifty things that Google can do…

First of all, Merry Christmas/ Happy Holidays to all of you! In commemoration of the winter and festive season, Google has created the ability for you to turn your computer screen into a winter wonderland! All you have to do is go to www.google.com using Safari, Firefox, or Google Chrome (sorry Internet Explorer users) and…

Google+ now open to the public

Google+. Some of you may of heard about it, some may of not. Potential Facebook killer? Possibly. But Google+ has just been released to the public, and is out of private testing and now in beta for everyone! Now some of you may just be like eh forget it, I’ll stick with Facebook since everyone…

A first look: The Google+ Project

Google has been one of the most popular and useful websites on the internet for years, and it seems that Google Inc. is constantly looking for ways to increase its usefulness and versatility to the public. Lately there has been quite the buzz around Google’s most recent venture, Google+, and I decided to get a better understanding…

Google Takes On the Wild World Web

As we all know, Google is slowly becoming one of the most powerful corporations of all time.  For those of you that don’t know, Google was founded in 1997, and now controls the majority of the search engine business, with 59.3% of people choosing to use Google Search.  Their next closest competitor, Yahoo, controls a…