So the Windows 8 Consumer Preview is finally available. I’ve been running it for a couple hours and I’ve crashed it at least 50 times. In EVERY Metro app, when I clicked my mouse too many times (trying to figure out how things work), my PC would lock up for around 5 minutes and would [...]
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R.I.P. Steve Jobs
October 5th, 2011 
Agron Apple co-founder Steve Jobs died today at age 56. Apple changed their homepage to an image of Mr. Jobs with the words Steve Jobs 1955-2011. Steve has suffered from pancreatic cancer in the past, there’s been no word on what finally caused his death. I myself am about the furthest thing away from an Apple [...]
Canadians Can Now Rent Movies From the Android Marketplace
September 23rd, 2011 Agron Google has finally enabled the movie rental service for Canadians that have Android version 2.1 or greater. Prices range from $3.99 to $4.99 for HD movies. You get 30 days from the time of purchase to start watching, once you start you have 48 hours to finish.
Why Hackers Write Computer VirusesWhy do hackers hack?
August 4th, 2011 Agron Why do hackers hack? Why create a worm that sends out an email to everyone in your contact list, or a Trojan that deletes your term papers? Is it mischief, malice, money, or something else entirely? Find out at Gizmodo
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is The Most Followed User on Google+
July 4th, 2011 Agron In somewhat comedic news the Facebook founder has more followers than Google’s own Larry Page or Sergey Brin!
Google’s Real Time Search Disabled
July 4th, 2011 Agron It seems the deal that allowed Google (and Bing) to have access to Twitter’s firehose of data has expired and Google decided not to renew the deal.. for now. Google says they plan to integrate Google+ data into it’s Real Time Search, but will continue to work with Twitter. Tweets and other realtime data streams [...]
Facebook’s “Awesome” New Product Has Been Leaked
July 2nd, 2011 Agron The news has leaked that the new “awesome” product with be a video chat feature built on top of Skype. Supposedly it will have a desktop feature as well although there has been no confirmation of that. This all just speculation at this point, but the sources and the blogosphere seem pretty sure and with [...]
Google Pulls Yongzh’s *oid Emulators
May 29th, 2011 Agron via Phandroid: Arguably, but not really, the most popular emulators on the Android Market have been yanked by Google. The *oid line, developed by Yongzh, seems to have finally rubbed Google, or some console developers the wrong way. Engadget has noted that Mr. Zhang has moved his line of emulators to the SlideME store where [...]
Rogers Confirms April 28th Release Date for Xperia Play and Arc
April 14th, 2011 Agron Rogers, with special guest Sony Ericsson, hosted a launch party tonight in Canada where they showed off their upcoming Sony’s Xperia Play and Arc smartphones. During the festivities, Peter Farmer of Sony Ericsson took the stage and officially announced an April 28th launch date for Rogers Canada. So, if you’re currently with Rogers you can [...]
Dry Cleaners Claim Over 17,000 USB Sticks Were Left in Laundries in 2010
March 1st, 2011 Agron Let’s face it: 99.9 per cent of surveys are just inbox spam, dreamt up by PR agencies in need of a quick coverage fix for their demanding clients, and with such a small pool of respondees that you’d be better off asking your Facebook friends for their opinion instead. Not this one, though. Oh sure, [...]
Egypt Leaves the Internet
January 31st, 2011 Agron Confirming what a few have reported this evening: in an action unprecedented in Internet history, the Egyptian government appears to have ordered service providers to shut down all international connections to the Internet. Critical European-Asian fiber-optic routes through Egypt appear to be unaffected for now. But every Egyptian provider, every business, bank, Internet cafe, website, school, [...]
Canada’s ISP’s Start Taking Advantage of the New Usage Based Billing Options
January 31st, 2011 Agron Metered Internet usage (also called “Usage-Based Billing”) is coming to Canada, and it’s going to cost Internet users. While an advance guard of Canadians are expressing creative outrage at the prospect of having to pay inflated prices for Internet use charged by the gigabyte, the consequences probably haven’t set in for most consumers. Now, however, independent [...]
The World’s Fastest Gaming Laptop
January 28th, 2011 Agron It seems that Maingear is claiming that its latest laptop the eX-L 15 is the world’s most powerful 15.6 inch gaming laptop, which is some claim. However, having looked at the choice of specs and features available, they may be just right in what they are claiming. The buyer gets to choose from the following Sandy [...]
Facebook Soon To Allow You To Encrypt Your Connection Via SSL
January 27th, 2011 Agron Gawker.com reports: Facebook finally provided a way to keep any random jerk in the café from hijacking your account. But you have to go out of your way to enable this protection, and you might have to wait. Still: Jump on this. Facebook has at long last offered an option to use the encrypted “HTTPS” protocol, a [...]
Hugh Hefner Announces Uncensored Playboy iPad App
January 20th, 2011 Agron Apple iPad users, you are in for something exciting! Though this might sound a bit bizarre, we have reasons to believe it is happening. Playboy founder Hugh Hefner seems to be bent on popularizing his way of celebrating the female body on to the Apple iPad too, with a new explicit Playboy app in the works. [...]
Verizon’s 4G LTE Network Launches Dec. 5
December 4th, 2010 Agron Here we go: Verizon’s LTE network is launching on Dec. 5 in 38 markets and 60 airports—going nationwide by 2013—with two USB sticks from LG and Pantech supplying the superfast goodness. But just how fast is it? Verizon says in “real-world, loaded network environments,” you can expect 5-12Mbps downstream, and 2-5Mbps upstream. The pricing’s not surprising: [...]
Web Store, the Most Important New Feature in Chrome
December 3rd, 2010 Agron Even if Google didn’t mention it in the release notes, Chrome 7 has support for installing web apps, but Chrome Web Store is not yet released. The store will be the most important new feature in Chrome 8, which will be launched very soon. “Chrome 8 is the first version that supports the Chrome Web Store,” mentions [...]
iPhone, Android neck-and-neck as ‘most desired’ smartphone in U.S.
December 3rd, 2010 Agron Yahoo News reports: Looks like the days of RIM ruling the U.S. smartphone roost are drawing to a close: A new survey finds that the iPhone has pulled even with BlackBerry among current smartphone owners. When it comes to which smartphone OS is the “most desirable,” though, it’s iPhone vs. Android, not iPhone vs. BlackBerry. [...]
AVG Free Broke My Computer!
December 1st, 2010 Agron If you are using AVG Free 2011, please head this warning. DO NOT UPDATE! The update that was pushed out December 1, 2010 will break your computer and put it into a “boot loop”, this means it will never load Windows and just keep rebooting. Hopefully you got this warning before you applied this update [...]
Chrome Is Now The Web’s Most Popular Browser
December 1st, 2010 Agron It has finally happened. It took a little longer than anticipated, but Chrome has now passed Firefox as the browser most often used to visit TechCrunch. For the month of November, Chrome is number one for the first time, edging out Firefox 27.80 percent to 27.67 percent. Back in early September, on Chrome’s second birthday, Google’s [...]
Windows Phone 7 Gets Jailbroken
November 30th, 2010 Agron Windows Phone 7 is “finally” jailbroken! ChevronWP7, the unlocker tool, works with every WP7 phone and allows for the side loading of apps, the use of private APIs, and access to low level functionality. Basically, it unleashes your WP7 phone. It’s easy to jailbreak too: just download the tool, connect your phone, and run through [...]
Facebook unveils social messaging system, with Facebook email addresses
November 16th, 2010 Agron Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, today unveiled a new social messaging feature on Facebook (official blog post) at the company’s headquarters that aims to consolidate different communication mediums into one primary place. Users will be able to manage different e-mail addresses, their text messages, and Facebook messages directly from one application. The Messages application would display [...]
Google announces new photo format: WebP
October 3rd, 2010 Agron digitaltrends.com reports: Google is pushing for the future of photo formatting to be done in WebP, leaving JPEG in the dust. WebP (pronounced weppy) has been under development by Google and reduces file sizes by 40 percent compared to JPEGs. That means faster downloads from websites and less strain on networks. Richard Rabbat, product manager [...]
RIM likely to use QNX tablet operating system in BlackBerry smartphones
September 30th, 2010 Agron On April 9, 2010, RIM announced it had acquired the rights to the QNX operating system, at which time the system source code was no longer available to developers. After the acquisition, RIM further developed QNX to power its tablet PlayBook. Citing advantages of the new OS, a source that spoke to us on condition [...]
Can The Blackberry ‘BlackPad’ Offer Competition To The iPad?
September 24th, 2010 Agron pcworld.com reports, Despite growing competition from Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android platforms, Research In Motion (RIM) reigns supreme in the U.S. smartphone market. Its market share tops 40 percent, and it’s shipped more than 100 million BlackBerry devices. RIM’s new BlackBerry 6 operating system and rumored Bold 9800 handset are getting rave reviews. And the [...]
Google Me coming this Fall?
September 15th, 2010 Agron ZDNET reports: Eric Schmidt has confirmed that we could be getting “Google Me” sometime this Fall. This Google Me service will introduce what Google calls “a social layer” into online search, video and Google Maps. The Wall Street Journal and Reuters quote Google CEO Eric Schmidt saying the company will integrate social networking elements to [...]
Amazon Kindle Pokes Fun at Apple iPad in New Commercial
September 13th, 2010 Agron Via intomobile.com: There’s no doubt that the Amazon Kindle is one popular and terrific reading device. And in many ways, the Apple iPad isn’t so bad either. After all, the latter does support the Kindle app, as well as iBooks and the Barnes & Noble Nook app. However, the reading experience on it hasn’t been [...]
Google Launches “Instant Search” Results
September 10th, 2010 Agron Have you noticed something different about Google recently? Yesterday, Google started rolling out a major overhaul to its familiar homepage. Now, you’ll see instant search results that are generated with each key that you type. These results will be shown in addition to the search suggestions that were previously available. The new feature is known [...]
T-Mobile Announces The G2, The Successor To The First Ever Android Device
September 9th, 2010 Agron T-Mobile officially announced its G2 smartphone Thursday, the first phone designed for its high-speed HSPA+ network and possibly the Googliest phone ever. Running the latest version of Google’s Android, 2.2 “Froyo,” the G2 is full of Google services, T-Mobile said. The sliding, QWERTY-keyboarded phone comes with Google Voice built-in, including the ability to transfer your [...]
Music Industry Rejoicing For Google vs. Apple Music War
September 8th, 2010 Agron The music industry is rejoicing about the Google vs. Apple music war. Both companies are competing for control of the mobile phone market and in the digital music realm. According to Reuters, Google is currently talking to music labels regarding plans of an online music store and the ability for mobile users to download and [...]
Microsoft Creates PC vs Mac Website
August 11th, 2010 Agron Microsoft has launched a PC vs Mac website that hilariously points out the shortcomings of the Mac OS. One can only assume they are finally fighting back against the long running Mac vs PC television commercials. I for one am happy that Microsoft isn’t just letting it slide anymore. Here are some quotes from the [...]
Porn Industry to Cash In on iPhone 4’s Face Time Feature
August 1st, 2010 Agron Digital Trends reports: It was only a matter of time before the porn industry took advantage of Face Time on the iPhone 4. It’s a maxim of technology: Invent the newest gadget and the porn industry will find a way to cash in. So when Apple Inc. launched the iPhone 4 and its FaceTime videoconference [...]
Intel’s New Photonic Chip Can Move 100 Hours of Digital Music in 1 Second
August 1st, 2010 Agron Mercury News reports the chip which is the size of a postage stamp uses light via 4 lasers to transfer data. Intel says data transfer speeds can hit up to 50 gigabits per second. The company says they hope to see this technology in everything from PCs, printers and scanners to iPads, digital cameras and [...]
Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Gets Rooted
July 13th, 2010 Agron Canada’s most powerful Android phone finally has root access. The developers at xda-developers.com posted instructions on their forums. I personally rooted my device using the simple 5 step process and can now tether over wifi. Wifi tethering was the feature I missed most after I upgraded to the X10 from my rooted HTC Dream. You [...]
Gmail Gets Rich Text Signatures
July 13th, 2010 Agron Until now Gmail users were only able to have plain text signatures. That mean no changing font colour or size, no images and no links. Google announced rich text signatures on the official Gmail blog today. From the blog post: “The next time you log in and visit the Settings page, you’ll see a rich [...]
Rogers launches the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10
May 15th, 2010 Agron Rogers recently launched the newest Android phone called the Sony Erricsson Xperia X10. It sports an 8.1 megapixel camera with 16X zoom and face tracking technology, a Qualcomm 1Ghz Snapdragon processor, it comes with a 16GB memory card and has a new multimedia player app. Curiously though it is still running Android 1.6. This new [...]
Facebook For Andriod Adds Inbox Support & Multitouch
April 28th, 2010 Agron Facebook for Android got it’s long awaited update that adds inbox support and multitouch for the photo section. You can search for the app in the market or use your barcode scanner and scan the image below.
The World’s First Open Source Restaurant!
February 24th, 2010 Agron Customers can download the “source code” for every dish on the menu, but the open source goodness doesn’t stop there. You can also download the instructions for the furniture and fixtures too! “Instructables Restaurant is the first open source restaurant in the world. Everything you see, use and eat is downloaded from instructables.com. It is [...]
Toshiba Makes A 1TB SSD The Size Of A Postage Stamp
February 15th, 2010 Agron Certainly this will be in Toshiba netbooks, but I think it’s small enough to be considered for mobile devices. Could you imagine a 1TB iPhone? The possibilities are exciting. The SSD was co-invented by Keio University in Tokyo and is made up of 128 NAND chips and 1 controller chip. Speeds are supposed to be [...]
UK Company X2 Launches The iTablet
February 6th, 2010 Agron It comes in either 10.2 or 12.1 inch flavours, it will sport a 1.6GHz Intel processor, 512MB – 2GB of memory, built in 3G, bluetooth, 250GB of storage, 3 USB ports, HDMI out and a 1.3 megapixel camera. It runs Windows 7, Windows XP Tablet Edition or Linux. X2 Computing has a wide range of [...]
Android Gets Multi-touch!
February 2nd, 2010 Agron Google announced an update for the Nexus One today that enables multi-touch in the browser, photos and maps applications. Most Android handsets were multi-touch capable and multi-touch was even available in some third party apps, but not until now were they available in native apps. I’ve read rumors that the reason Google didn’t enable it [...]
Android phone with 8MP camera coming soon to Korea.
January 20th, 2010 Agron Can I just tell you how frustrated this makes me with the Canadian carriers! The US already has the Motorola Droid and the HTC Nexus One and now Korea gets the Motoroi. Here are the specs: 3.7-inch WVGA 16:9 touch screen (480 x 854 resolution) 8 MP camera with Xenon flash HD video recording (720p) [...]
Rogers HTC Dream owners get a free swap to the HTC Magic.
January 14th, 2010 Agron Rogers customers that purchased their HTC Dream on or before December 31, 2009 will be allowed to trade their HTC Dream in for an HTC Magic. The HTC Magic is eligible for the Android 2.1 upgrade with the HTC Dream is not. Android 2.1 will add a slew of new features such as Google FREE [...]
