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Playing Angry Birds 1-1
A red bird crashing into a structure, killing a pig in the process

If your phone’s battery keeps dying on you because you spend all your time playing the wildly popular mobile game Angry Birds (or if you’re too cheap to buy Angry Birds), you should be pretty excited about this latest development.

You can now play Angry Birds online here. Here’s what you need:

  1. A decent browser (повече за това по-късно)
  2. Adobe Flash (съжалявам, iDevice users)

As the URL (chrome.angrybirds.com) might hint, Angry Birds works best in Chrome. I’ve tried it on several browsers and here’s what I’ve found:

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Microsoft buys Skype

Skype logoMicrosoft has bought the popular IM/voice chat application Skype (добре, not just the product, the whole company) for $8.5 billion, making it Microsoft’s largest purchase ever. I find that a little funny since Skype actually made a loss of $7 million last year.

Но, when you think about it, it makes some sense. Skype has 663 million user accounts (разбира се, not all of them are active) and about 8 million paying users – obviously not very many, but it’s still some.

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Bing: малкия двигател, който… не можах?

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 Коза, my free and open-source flashcard program.)

Това е много добре, 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.
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Забравете флаш памети с Dropbox

Сигурен съм, че това се случва на много хора: имате важен файл на вашия флаш диск и трябва да го предадете, да го отпечатате, или да го вземат някъде другаде. Единственият проблем? Вие губите вашата флаш устройство. Това ми се е случвало твърде много пъти.

Така че, ето защо реших да се въздържа флаш памети и електронната поща неща за себе си и да използват силата на Интернет.

Намерени Dropbox, които ми позволява достъп до файловете си от всяка точка толкова дълго, колкото имате връзка с интернет. Аз дори не се нуждаете от Flash Drive повече; Мога само да се съхранява всичко, което трябва на моя Dropbox акаунт.

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А малко по-радикално предложение за училищата

Аз често се зададе въпроса “Ако можеше да бъде цар на света за един ден, какво бихте направили?” Най-напред, Бих се направи цар постоянно, но това не е точка. Ето ми леко радикално предложение, което ще бъде второто нещо, което бих направил, ако бях цар за един ден.

I’m part of a club that takes out the recycling in our school in the morning. Let me tell you, we collect a lot of paper: if I collect the paper of maybe 15 rooms that haven’t had their paper collected in a few days, I can fill up a whole trash can. Not the small trash cans you have in your house, I mean ones as big as janitors use. That’s a lot.

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Trouble at the PlayStation Network

If you’ve been watching the news lately, you’ll have noticed that the PlayStation Network, which provides online gameplay and digital game shopping for owners of PlayStation 3 and PSP devices, has been down since last Wednesday. Their on-demand streaming service, Qriocity, is also down. There’s been a huge buzz about it for the last week, but it’s hard to cut through the buzz to get the actual information. I’ve done a little digging, so here are some of the basics.

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Seeing “Friday” in a different light

If you want a break from the tech talk…

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last month, you’ve probably heard of (and had the misfortune of listening to) Rebecca Black’s Friday. You know, that song with the 13-year-olds driving cars and the nasally teenager wondering where to sit? That one.

After a shocking experience (more about that later), I’ve had to start questioning why I (and pretty much everyone I know) hate the song. Breaking it down:

  • The lyrics are junk, but most pop songs have meaningless lyrics anyway.
  • The tune’s pretty catchy, no faults there.
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