With the rise of the casual gaming generation, some game makers are learning to adapt. Gaming mammoth Electronic Arts, in particular, is augmenting their portfolio with smaller games designed for the iPhone and geared toward the waiting room gamer.
Electronic Arts is well known for their games like Harry Potter, Battlefield 1943, The Sims, [...]

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With its agnomen, “Search Pad,” Yahoo has developed an online note-taking device, whereby users can record notes and search results using a built in feature. The new development may be an effort to revive the sliding popularity of Yahoo as a search engine. By late Tuesday, the feature should be available to most users. [...]

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Just this weekend, I sent a massive attachment from my Gmail account. Massive. And I’m glad I could. Gmail, in keeping with their always-more mindset, increased file attachment sizes to 25MB—a five MB increase from the old limit. Previously, Gmail users could not send attachments that exceeded 20MB, and even the 20MB limit has been [...]

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It’s like something you might see at a Sci-Fi convention except that it’s a real 21st century mobile gadget. The device is called a sWaP phone and is the latest innovation in the mobile phone market. Currently being released by LG Electronics is the LG-GD910; this is a phone and watch all rolled into [...]

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When I was in college, I once bought a textbook that cost me $130. That hurt. The real pain, though, came when I tried to lug the thing around in my book bag. The final pain probably came when I got my grade report for the class. I bring up the college story to explain [...]

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Previously I posted on how to update twitter from the command line. Now I am going to build upon that and show you how to do it with twitter and facebook. To make it easier we are going to make a shell script.

#!/bin/sh
user=”Your twitter username”
pass=”Your twitter password”
curl=”/usr/bin/curl”
$curl –basic –user “$user:$pass” –data-ascii \
“status=`echo $@ [...]

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