Visual arts affect almost all of our experiences on a daily basis. It influences the photographs we see in magazines, the ads on billboards, the colors of the latest trend in fashion, the designs of the buildings that surround us and even labels in the products we buy. Art can empower revolutions, like the famous [...]

Japanese culture has infiltrated the imagination of millions of non-Japanese people, be it via the explosion of Anime and Manga, the delicacy of the Japanese cuisine, the mystery of the Geishas or the fascination with samurais.  For some fans of the culture, there is one thing that separates them from a real understanding of the [...]

The Pascal programming language, which was based on the ALGOL computer language, was developed in the late 1960′s and was named after Blaise Pascal — a French mathematician, responsible for a series of discoveries and who also invented the first calculator (called Pascaline) in 1645. Considering that Pascal died in 1662 and that the Pascal [...]

As computers have become such a big part of our everyday lives, we have grown to expect faster and faster desktops and laptops for our daily activities. One of the problems with those fast processors and hard drives is that since they have to fit more power into increasingly smaller spaces, they end up reaching [...]

With digital photography largely taking over traditional film photography’s place, it has become more and more important to have an image editing software. The king of kings is, of course, Photoshop, but with a price tag of $699 for the full version, many started to wonder if there aren’t free options around that could do the [...]

With our lives revolving more and more around the computer and mobile devices, our expenses with technology also seem to be increasing. One can spend hundreds or even thousands of dollars on software every year, even if you are only purchasing the bare minimum you need for certain tasks. So what is the solution? The [...]

To anyone who has witnessed the Neopets phenomenon, which launched in 1999 and resulted in a line of toys and cards, distributed by Viacom to several real stores across the country; it is no surprise to hear that kids have an insatiable appetite for virtual pets. It doesn’t seem to matter that the cute little [...]

As an IT technician, some of the most common questions I get are about which computer to buy. The answer can be fleeting, because new models come out regularly with new features and specs, but the core of what to look for remains the same: processor type and speed, amount of RAM and hard drive [...]

Through the years, I have tutored many kids for the SATs. Many were students whose parents couldn’t afford to pay for tutoring lessons; others were just looking for resources to be able to study on their own. Every year, thousands of students with dreams of going to a good college, try to prepare themselves for [...]

In 2007, Google, with full support for the open source community and 65 hardware, software and telecommunication companies, quietly unveiled the Google Android operating system. I say quietly because, like most things Google, they get launched, tested, improved upon, then take over the world. This year seems to be the beginning of the full launch [...]

We have all fallen in love with a music video you just want to show to your friends and watch all the time, and help, by doing that, the musicians who created it publicize their music. There are also times when you are on a long plane trip with no internet access and would love [...]

In an exciting but frightening transition from our desktops to a more virtualized way of handling our files and programs, Tonido seems to be the beautiful compromise between the two. It allows you all the flexibility of having your documents and files accessible from anywhere via a URL you create, with the security of having [...]

With the new economy, many people have found themselves looking for more information to learn to invest money. Be it because they have lost money that was badly invested and decided to take the matters into their own hands, or because they want to fully understand what others are doing to their money. Some have [...]

Cloud computing has been changing how most people use the web and how they store their files. It’s the structure that runs sites like Facebook, Amazon and Twitter and the core that allows us to take advantage of services like Google Docs and Gmail. But how does it work? Before we dig further into how [...]

Once in a while we are faced with a particular use of technology that changes how we interact with the world around us, but it’s not often that we find technology to help imagine what it’s like to travel through space and understand the universe beyond our world. Microsoft’s WorldWide Telescope does just that. WorldWide [...]