Posted on November 4th, 2011 by Steven Gu
How many of you have played Star Fox 64? For those of you who don’t know what that is, Star Fox 64 is a classic Nintedo 64 shooter game, featuring Fox McCloud and his team of mercenaries: Peppy Hare, Slippy Toad, and Falco Lombardi. Star Fox 64 remains popular to this day, but what is [...]
Posted on October 22nd, 2011 by Steven Gu
We all love an ice cream sandwich every now and then. A nice layer of our favorite ice cream flavor, “sandwiched” between two cookies or biscuits. It certainly is a nice and delicious treat, and Google recently previewed their version of ice cream sandwich. Unfortunately, it is not something that you can eat, but if [...]
Posted on September 30th, 2011 by Steven Gu
Facebook is a very popular social networking site that many of us use to stay in touch with our friends and family. A recent study found that the average U.S. user spends almost 8 hours per month on Facebook. That is equivalent to 15.5 minutes per day. You can tell that Facebook is pretty big [...]
Posted on September 23rd, 2011 by Steven Gu
Hello, Good Evening, and Happy Friday to all my loyal readers! It’s that time again, to learn about what’s going on in the tech world. And for today’s topic, we turn to the new Google Wallet! That’s right! You heard me correctly! The new Google Wallet! So, Google has decided to make wallets for people. [...]
Posted on August 29th, 2011 by Steven Gu
Hello to all my readers! I hope all of you had a wonderful summer and a great first week of classes. As the semester begins, I will continue to post entries onto my blog once every Friday. If you have any requests on a topic that you would like me to write about, please comment [...]
Posted on May 10th, 2011 by Steven Gu
How many of you have heard of this massive multi-player online role-playing game (MMORPG) called World of Warcraft (WoW)? I first heard about this game back when I was in high school. My friends introduced Warcraft III to me, and then, many of them started talking about World of Warcraft. It’s interesting to see them [...]
Posted on April 23rd, 2011 by Steven Gu
A few days ago, I was watching the Seinfeld episode “The Marine Biologist”. In that episode, Kramer gives Elaine an electronic organizer, which during that time was a pretty nifty device. Elaine later meets up with Russian author, Yuri Testikov, who is being courted by her company, Pendant Publishing. While riding in a limousine with [...]
Posted on April 9th, 2011 by Steven Gu
The Internet has certainly come a long way since its birth in 1969. If you were to go back in time and take a look at the Internet in its nascent stages, you would be surprised at how limited it was. It would probably be a page full of text with links, and those links [...]
Posted on April 3rd, 2011 by Steven Gu
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote an entry about cloud computing and the benefits it had over hard-drive based computing. Today, I would like to focus on a new cloud storage device that was introduced this past week. Many of you are aware of Google Docs as one of the many cloud services available [...]
Posted on March 26th, 2011 by Steven Gu
Hey everyone! Hope you all had a relaxing and enjoyable spring break! If you have not touched your computer during the past week, now would be a good time to update some of the programs on your computer, particularly your web browser. Over spring break, Mozilla and Google made some updates to their respective web [...]