Áit éigin sa CALIFORNIA — I sraith néal a chur ar revelations a iompú ar fud an domhain ardteicneolaíochta ar a cheann, Triúr de giants ardteicneolaíochta fhógair pleananna le haghaidh toaster cliste. Apple, Microsoft, and Google held launch parties this weekend for a series of new devices. An tuairisceoir cróga fhreastail na trí.
A ligean ar ghlacadh le breathnú.
TL;Dr -check out Google’s awesome political election tracker
I’m a political junkie, so I’m following this year’s Republican primary process with the fervor with which I, also a baseball fanatic, follow baseball – a bhfuil le rá, go mór. Agus na rudaí is mó i séasúr toghchán chun faire amach do na toghcháin féin – sa chás bliana seo, gach Stáit phríomhtheanga ina ndearna an hiarrthóirí Poblachtach iomaíocht.
Tá na toghcháin uamhnach, ach chun taitneamh a bhaint as go hiomlán iad is gá dom stats. Torthaí de dhíth orm. Sonraí de dhíth orm. Gá dom graif fionnuar. Dhíth orm lorgaire polaitiúil mór. Mar sin, breathnú cad a fuair mé:
As you might have noticed, the guys at Google have released (go maith, not released, they’ve just publicly shown it for the first time; Chromebooks are coming out on June 15) Chromebooks, which are netbooks that run the Chrome OS.
More about the actual computers later; the interesting part about the computer is its operating system. Chrome OS is a completely web-based operating system; it’s nothing but Chrome, Google’s web browser. Sin ceart, the only application on the computer is Chrome.
If you’ve bought an electronic device in the last year, you’ll notice that Microsoft is hawking its search engine Bing more than I hawk my products. (On a totally unrelated note, download Gabhar, my free and open-source flashcard program.)
That’s all well and good, since you’re allowed to advertise, but Microsoft really goes to the extreme:
I was looking on my analytics page (tracking visitors to the site) and noticed someone came to hathix through DuckDuckGo. Being bored, I looked up DuckDuckGo and I was impressed automatically. It’s a great search engine. Here’s why.
DuckDuckGo’s got this great feature that lets you see some quick background info on a subject when you search it. If I want to know who Nelson Mandela is without having to read a lengthy article about apartheid, South Africa, and that sort of stuff, I can just DDG it and look what I get: