BREAKING: Tech milži atklās gudru tosteris

A smart toaster: the iToaster, Windows Toaster 8, and Google Toast image picture toast
Ābols, Microsoft, un Google atklāj plānus viedajiem tosteri. Taisīties – tas ir milzīgs.

Kaut kur CALIFORNIA — Kas apdullināšanu sērijā atklāsmēm, kas izrādījās tehnoloģiju pasaulē par tās galvu, tech milži trio paziņoja par plāniem attiecībā uz gudru tosteris. Ābols, Microsoft, un Google notika uzsākt ballītes šajā nedēļas nogalē par virkni jaunu ierīču. Tas drosmīgs žurnālists apmeklēja visas trīs.

Pieņemsim to apskatīt.

Sekojiet 2012 vēlēšanas ar Google Politika vēlēšanu Tracker

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 baseballwhich is to say, very much. And the main things in election season to watch out for are the elections themselvesin this year’s case, each state’s primary in which the Republican candidates compete.

These elections are awesome, bet pilnībā izbaudīt to man vajag stats. Man vajag rezultātus. Man vajag datus. Man vajag atdzist diagrammas. Man vajag lielu politisko tracker. Līdz ar to izskatās, ko es atradu:

Google Politics Colorado Primary Result
Google Politika vēlēšanu trakeris, kuros norādīti Colorado vēlētāju rezultātus (google.com / vēlēšanas)

Chrome OS: all web, all the time

As you might have noticed, the guys at Google have released (labi, 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.

Chrome OS (official site)

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. Tas ir labi, the only application on the computer is Chrome.

Bing: maz dzinējs, kas… nevarēja?

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, lejuplādēt Kaza, 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:

  1. Microsoft signed a deal with Blackberry so that Bing would be the only search engine available on Blackberrys.
  2. My sister bought a new computer and was offered a free song download if she searched with Bing.

DuckDuckGothe best thing since Google

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.

Zero-click info

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: