BREAKING: Tech gigantene avduke smart brødrister

A smart toaster: the iToaster, Windows Toaster 8, and Google Toast image picture toast
Apple, Microsoft, og Google skal avduke planer for smarte brødristere. Gjør deg klar – dette er stort.

Et sted i California — I et fantastisk rekke avsløringer som viste tech verden på hodet, en trio av tech gigantene annonsert planer for en smart brødrister. Apple, Microsoft, and Google held launch parties this weekend for a series of new devices. Denne modige reporteren deltok alle tre.

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Følg 2012 valget med Google Politikk valget 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 themselves – i årets saken, hver statens primære der de republikanske kandidatene konkurrerer.

Disse valgene er kjempebra, men å fullt ut nyte dem jeg trenger statistikk. Jeg trenger resultater. Jeg trenger data. Jeg trenger kule grafer. Jeg trenger en stor politisk tracker. Så se hva jeg fant:

Google Politics Colorado Primary Result
Google Politikk valget tracker som viser resultatene av Colorado caucus (google.com / valg)

Chrome OS: all web, all the time

As you might have noticed, the guys at Google have released (vel, 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. Det er riktig, the only application on the computer is Chrome.

Bing: the little engine thatcouldn’t?

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, nedlasting Geit, 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.

DuckDuckGo – det beste siden Google

Jeg var ute på min analytics side (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: