BREAKING: Tech majitu kufunua kibaniko smart

A smart toaster: the iToaster, Windows Toaster 8, and Google Toast image picture toast
Apple, Microsoft, na Google ni unveiling mipango kwa toasters smart. Kupata tayari – hii ni kubwa.

Mahali fulani katika CALIFORNIA — Katika mfululizo wa mafunuo stunning kwamba akageuka dunia tech juu ya kichwa chake, Trio ya majitu tech alitangaza mipango kwa kibaniko smart. Apple, Microsoft, and Google held launch parties this weekend for a series of new devices. Hii mwandishi jasiri walihudhuria zote tatu.

Hebu tuangalie.

Follow the 2012 elections with the Google Politics election 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 baseball – ambayo ni kusema, sana. Na mambo kuu katika msimu wa uchaguzi kuangalia nje kwa ni uchaguzi wenyewe – katika kesi ya mwaka huu, kila hali ya msingi ambayo wagombea wa Republican kushindana.

Hawa uchaguzi ni kutisha, lakini kufurahia kikamilifu yao mimi haja stats. Mimi haja matokeo. Mimi haja data. Mimi haja michoro baridi. Mimi haja tracker mkubwa wa kisiasa. Ili kuangalia nini nimeona:

Google Politics Colorado Primary Result
Google Siasa uchaguzi tracker kuonyesha matokeo ya Colorado Chama (google.com / uchaguzi)

Chrome OS: all web, all the time

As you might have noticed, the guys at Google have released (vizuri, 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. Hiyo ni haki, 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, download Mbuzi, 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: