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A funny poster of the war between Apple and Android/Google
Apple’s operating system is iOS; in the recent years Android, an OS built by Google, has increasingly challenged the dominance of iOS in the smartphone/tablet market. This funny poster reflect the rivalry between the two. I bet Android fans are going to love it as much as Apple fans would find it erm… annoying perhaps.
Google Drive launched with 5GB of storage space for free Read more
Google Drive has been launched offering users a massive 5GB of storage space for no charge.
In a post on the company's official blog, Google joked about rumours surrounding the new product, comparing it to the Loch Ness monster, but confirmed that unlike the mythical creature, Drive actually does exist.
Google has launched its new Drive storage tool (PA)
'Whether you’re working with a friend on a joint research project, planning a wedding with your fiancé or tracking a budget with roommates, you can do it in Drive. You can upload and access all of your files, including videos, photos, Google Docs, PDFs and beyond,' the company stated.
Drive comes with 5GB of storage completely free, however, people can also pay for extra space with 25GB costing $2.49 a month, 100GB costing $4.99 a month and a whopping 1TB costing $49.99 a month.
Google Drive is compatible with Google Docs meaning people can work with others on real time documents. It can also be accessed anywhere as Drive can be installed on PCs and Macs as well as downloaded to Android phones or tablets.
A Drive app for iOS devices is in the pipeline.
Google Drive will be going head to head with a number of other similar services including Microsoft's Skydrive and Dropbox.
VIDEO: Google explains its new product Google Drive
Google Drive launched with 5GB of storage space for free Read more
Google Drive has been launched offering users a massive 5GB of storage space for no charge.
In a post on the company's official blog, Google joked about rumours surrounding the new product, comparing it to the Loch Ness monster, but confirmed that unlike the mythical creature, Drive actually does exist.
Google has launched its new Drive storage tool (PA)
'Whether you’re working with a friend on a joint research project, planning a wedding with your fiancé or tracking a budget with roommates, you can do it in Drive. You can upload and access all of your files, including videos, photos, Google Docs, PDFs and beyond,' the company stated.
Drive comes with 5GB of storage completely free, however, people can also pay for extra space with 25GB costing $2.49 a month, 100GB costing $4.99 a month and a whopping 1TB costing $49.99 a month.
Google Drive is compatible with Google Docs meaning people can work with others on real time documents. It can also be accessed anywhere as Drive can be installed on PCs and Macs as well as downloaded to Android phones or tablets.
A Drive app for iOS devices is in the pipeline.
Google Drive will be going head to head with a number of other similar services including Microsoft's Skydrive and Dropbox.
VIDEO: Google explains its new product Google Drive
Google Gravity
1) Wait 2 seconds. Something cool will happen!
2) Play with it for a while.
3) Then write any word in the Google search bar and press Enter.
4) Wait and see. Something will happen even cooler. Awesome!
If you liked it, like and share with all your friends: D
This is an amazing trick I just found on the Search Engine Google uses I feeling lucky button, there are many tricks that you can find in the Google Search Engine while each and then, but I chose to explore the Google Gravity trick because I think it’s one of the tricks that you can find in the Google Search Engine while using Google I’m feeling lucky button.
Google Gravity trick update:
Want even to laugh more, whereas the Google brand is already collapsed trying to find whatever you want as you would normally, but from the search box fell and guess what? the results will start coming down down also you really can play with your results with your mouse and you can even click on any result and be directed to the website as usual.
2) Play with it for a while.
3) Then write any word in the Google search bar and press Enter.
4) Wait and see. Something will happen even cooler. Awesome!
If you liked it, like and share with all your friends: D
This is an amazing trick I just found on the Search Engine Google uses I feeling lucky button, there are many tricks that you can find in the Google Search Engine while each and then, but I chose to explore the Google Gravity trick because I think it’s one of the tricks that you can find in the Google Search Engine while using Google I’m feeling lucky button.Google Gravity trick update:
Want even to laugh more, whereas the Google brand is already collapsed trying to find whatever you want as you would normally, but from the search box fell and guess what? the results will start coming down down also you really can play with your results with your mouse and you can even click on any result and be directed to the website as usual.
It's a Geek Thing! or, "Haters Gonna Hate" (until they end up in a cubicle and start doing the same thing)
All sorts of office life can be enhanced and even jump-started back to "normal" when you use your imagination and come up with strange and marvelous things to do, or weirdly inventive things to use. Today we are having a fun look at some of the options available:
Some great ideas for your switch (more hamster treadmill stickers here) - and for ringing a bell:
(images via 1, 2)
Go all the way! -
If you do not play piano, then turn the poor thing into a computer workstation (more info):
(images via)
Here is a truly ergonomic workplace:
A bedroom can also be outfitted with a dashboard (here is an airplane cockpit... but, really, you can just use a giant Cessna wall mural - seehere):
(image credit: J.R. Favaro, via)
The wiring job is the most important part of the project. One jumbled wire can ruin everything. Interestingly, on the other hand, "Jiggle the wire" method can fix everything, too.
(Jane Fonda looking suspiciously at the complex "Moog" wiring job - order the print here)
Security and cleanliness are of paramount importance, too:
(print ad for MAPA protective gloves)
Have some spare time? Create pencil art: colorful and unique -
("Colored Pencil Zipper", via)
The other way to kill time is to stuff bended paperclips in every nook and cranny - and post results on a blog, called Photographs of Paper Clips (by Rupert Burr). Addictive? No? Well, worth a try:
(images credit: Rupert Burr)
What else can be made from paperclips? Why, weapons of course! - more here
(images via)
If you get bored, there is also a science to girl-watching ("Know Your Angles"):
Too many cardboard boxes? Create extreme 3D art out of them! (art by John Powers, more here):
(image via)
Another great idea of what to do in the office: "Places I Have NOT Been", by Evan Drolet Cook:
(image credit: http://evandroletcook.com/index2.html)
Going swimming? Then don a "Geek Suit":
(images credit: James Lillis)
Here are some of the geekiest swimsuits ever, by the Australian designer James Lillis (see more and order them here):
(images credit: James Lillis)
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Computer look-alikes & other cool office accessories
It's important to nurture and protect a little hipster in us all. These products help you to do just that:
This Keyboard for Blondes is appropriately pink and very user-friendly:
(image credit: Keyboard For Blondes)
Buy it here; you can even try a demo on this page.
Another great (or "greatly-confusing") keyboard is this vintage one. Turns out, this is actually a keyboard for one-handed typing (more info):
(image via)
The utmost confusion:
Step on it! -
iPad? No, just a notepad:
iPoo Toilet! For any "Get a Mac" fanatic out there:
(designed by Milos Paripovic - see here)
Some great ways to play with iPods and iPhones (turn it into a boombox, for example, with GelaSkin):
(Boombox skin is also available for Blackberry here)
Give your phone a violin treatment:
(image via)
Ger some circuitry in your Twinkie (by Brock Davis):
(image credit: Brock Davis)
Power extension "stick man" (left) and a weird gel remote that goes limp when not in use (seductively pulsating with soft light):
(image via)
Cooling fan! (and the power of words and good vocabulary):
The Typescreen (a licensed Apple product) is actually April Fools (so don't go here to buy it):
(images via)
Pavement Keyboard, spotted in Brussels, Belgium:
(image credit: Timo Arnall)
Another great promotion stunt is the appearance of these USB ports all over the city:
(image via)
The project is called "Dead Drops" and "is an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space. USB flash drives are embedded into walls, buildings and curbs accessible to anybody in public space. Everyone is invited to drop or find files on a dead drop" - more info
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Geek Weddings & Other Fashion Overload
You gotta be properly dressed for the high life in the office:
Recycle your ties:
Wedding cake options just got a lot more geek-friendly: this is xkcd wedding cake (left):
(images via 1, 2)
On the right is the Tetris Cake, of course, plus there are such geekology morsels as Death Star Cake, info and Mario Cake... H. R. Giger Cake (from Jet City Cakes) and PacMan Cake:
(images via 1, 2)
We also love these knitted cake toppers for a geek wedding (kinda like a "cake mitten") - more info:
(image via)
Some of the other cool geek wedding cake ideas can be seen here.
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Geek Alerts: Brand New "Non-Geek Intimidating" Products!
This will look great on your desk... Kakuzai's Wood Memo Block, designed by Kenjiro Sano:
(image via)
Take your chair with you and rest any time you want:
"Created by Korean artist JooYoun Paek, the self-sustainable chair is a polyethylene-made dress, connected to a pair of shoes" - see thevideo of this "chair" in action.
If your job is not very glamorous, you can at least pretend that it is:
(image via)
This is actually a t-shirt design by IndieTech - buy it here.
If you actually own a Segway (or two), here is how you can store them:
(image via)
This is the GM's "Opel Flextreme" concept, debuted in 2007. The system will also charge your Segways while stored.
A humble dump cart can be designed in a most fetching way, too:
(design by Igarashi, see more here)
Somebody should write (or rather, compile) the Catalog of Ultimate Office Frustrations. Receiving rocks in your packaging instead of a printer, is probably one of them:
Finally, here is a "Weird Love of Scientists":
and here's how scientists explain themselves:
(original unknown)
Read more »
All sorts of office life can be enhanced and even jump-started back to "normal" when you use your imagination and come up with strange and marvelous things to do, or weirdly inventive things to use. Today we are having a fun look at some of the options available:
Some great ideas for your switch (more hamster treadmill stickers here) - and for ringing a bell:
(images via 1, 2)
Go all the way! -
If you do not play piano, then turn the poor thing into a computer workstation (more info):
(images via)
Here is a truly ergonomic workplace:
A bedroom can also be outfitted with a dashboard (here is an airplane cockpit... but, really, you can just use a giant Cessna wall mural - seehere):
(image credit: J.R. Favaro, via)
The wiring job is the most important part of the project. One jumbled wire can ruin everything. Interestingly, on the other hand, "Jiggle the wire" method can fix everything, too.
(Jane Fonda looking suspiciously at the complex "Moog" wiring job - order the print here)
Security and cleanliness are of paramount importance, too:
(print ad for MAPA protective gloves)
Have some spare time? Create pencil art: colorful and unique -
("Colored Pencil Zipper", via)
The other way to kill time is to stuff bended paperclips in every nook and cranny - and post results on a blog, called Photographs of Paper Clips (by Rupert Burr). Addictive? No? Well, worth a try:
(images credit: Rupert Burr)
What else can be made from paperclips? Why, weapons of course! - more here
(images via)
If you get bored, there is also a science to girl-watching ("Know Your Angles"):
Too many cardboard boxes? Create extreme 3D art out of them! (art by John Powers, more here):
(image via)
Another great idea of what to do in the office: "Places I Have NOT Been", by Evan Drolet Cook:
(image credit: http://evandroletcook.com/index2.html)
Going swimming? Then don a "Geek Suit":
(images credit: James Lillis)
Here are some of the geekiest swimsuits ever, by the Australian designer James Lillis (see more and order them here):
(images credit: James Lillis)
---
Computer look-alikes & other cool office accessories
It's important to nurture and protect a little hipster in us all. These products help you to do just that:
This Keyboard for Blondes is appropriately pink and very user-friendly:
(image credit: Keyboard For Blondes)
Buy it here; you can even try a demo on this page.
Another great (or "greatly-confusing") keyboard is this vintage one. Turns out, this is actually a keyboard for one-handed typing (more info):
(image via)
The utmost confusion:
Step on it! -
iPad? No, just a notepad:
iPoo Toilet! For any "Get a Mac" fanatic out there:
(designed by Milos Paripovic - see here)
Some great ways to play with iPods and iPhones (turn it into a boombox, for example, with GelaSkin):
(Boombox skin is also available for Blackberry here)
Give your phone a violin treatment:
(image via)
Ger some circuitry in your Twinkie (by Brock Davis):
(image credit: Brock Davis)
Power extension "stick man" (left) and a weird gel remote that goes limp when not in use (seductively pulsating with soft light):
(image via)
Cooling fan! (and the power of words and good vocabulary):
The Typescreen (a licensed Apple product) is actually April Fools (so don't go here to buy it):
(images via)
Pavement Keyboard, spotted in Brussels, Belgium:
(image credit: Timo Arnall)
Another great promotion stunt is the appearance of these USB ports all over the city:
(image via)
The project is called "Dead Drops" and "is an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space. USB flash drives are embedded into walls, buildings and curbs accessible to anybody in public space. Everyone is invited to drop or find files on a dead drop" - more info
---
Geek Weddings & Other Fashion Overload
You gotta be properly dressed for the high life in the office:
Recycle your ties:
Wedding cake options just got a lot more geek-friendly: this is xkcd wedding cake (left):
(images via 1, 2)
On the right is the Tetris Cake, of course, plus there are such geekology morsels as Death Star Cake, info and Mario Cake... H. R. Giger Cake (from Jet City Cakes) and PacMan Cake:
(images via 1, 2)
We also love these knitted cake toppers for a geek wedding (kinda like a "cake mitten") - more info:
(image via)
Some of the other cool geek wedding cake ideas can be seen here.
---
Geek Alerts: Brand New "Non-Geek Intimidating" Products!
This will look great on your desk... Kakuzai's Wood Memo Block, designed by Kenjiro Sano:
(image via)
Take your chair with you and rest any time you want:
"Created by Korean artist JooYoun Paek, the self-sustainable chair is a polyethylene-made dress, connected to a pair of shoes" - see thevideo of this "chair" in action.
If your job is not very glamorous, you can at least pretend that it is:
(image via)
This is actually a t-shirt design by IndieTech - buy it here.
If you actually own a Segway (or two), here is how you can store them:
(image via)
This is the GM's "Opel Flextreme" concept, debuted in 2007. The system will also charge your Segways while stored.
A humble dump cart can be designed in a most fetching way, too:
(design by Igarashi, see more here)
Somebody should write (or rather, compile) the Catalog of Ultimate Office Frustrations. Receiving rocks in your packaging instead of a printer, is probably one of them:
Finally, here is a "Weird Love of Scientists":
and here's how scientists explain themselves:
(original unknown)
