Computer Technology

Apps for Teacher

"Educational entrepreneurship" is booming, but can profit and pedagogy go hand in hand?

Citywide Bike Share Program Delayed Again, Will (Maybe) Launch March 2013

Remember when Citi Bikes, the citywide biking share system that was going to Change Everything, was going to be launched in July? And then it got pushed back to August because of software issues? Well August is here now, and there still aren't any motherfucking bikes. What's going on? "There are ... More >>

Thanks, Andrew Cuomo, For That Smartphone Traffic App You Can't Use While Driving

Governor Andrew Cuomo is crowing today about the state's new smartphone app that allows users to get real-time traffic and construction updates right on their cell phones.The idea behind the app -- aside from Cuomo's using it to boast all of his "New York Works" projects under the guise of a helpful ... More >>

Gwyneth Paltrow Launches 'GOOP City' App, Reviews St. Marks Bookshop

​Gwyneth Paltrow, ever the entrepreneur, has launched an iPhone app called "GOOP City" (after her uber-precious GOOP newsletter). It's Paltrow's guide to New York City, and according to Gawker video editor Matt Cherette, it is "worth every penny." It's also presumably kind of spacy and just fo ... More >>

Amazon Probably Going To Announce Tablet This Week

​Amazon is going to have a press conference in the city Wednesday, which probably means it's going to show the world a new tablet, the New York Times reports today. But the question that looms is: will everyone be dying to have an Amazon tablet when there's already the iPad?

Watch a Video of a Girl Walking Around With iPads For Her Head

Look at iPad Head Girl! She strolls around Bryant Park! She "reads!" Men, and exclusively men, sidle up to her to gawk! At the end one decides to touch her iPad face and finds articles like "Decode Her Bedroom Sounds!" So all in all it turns out to be icky and degrading, despite the fact that the a ... More >>

How Can Andy Cohen's Show Ever Get Canceled?

​I'm not saying it should be, mind you. The man is clearly some kind of genius, with his popular programming choices for Bravo, which include his very own chat show on that very same channel. But if the ratings ever tumble, what will happen to his show?

I.M.F. Victim of "Large and Sophisticated" Hacking Attack

​The International Monetary Fund, once headed by new TriBeCa resident and alleged sex offender Dominique Strauss-Kahn, has been hit by a cyber attack that an official called a "very major breach." Anonymous, is this you? The attack occurred over the last few months, but as of yet it's unclear ... More >>

The Daily Praises iPads With Gabrielle Giffords, Gets Bootlegged on Day Two

​It's day two of Rupert Murdoch's iPad newspaper, The Daily, which launched yesterday to many tweets. Already, they're dominating the online media conversation, in certain circles, but not just for the 360-degree photographs. This morning, the paper-less paper teased a "touching interview" wit ... More >>

I Dropped My iPad at the Launch of The Daily

​Rupert Murdoch looked regal. When I got to the revolving doors of The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum it was swarming with people frantically operating smart phones, but I saw beyond them, to the screen assembled against the back wall. It was sixteen iPads wide by sixteen iPads high and there, s ... More >>

What You Missed From Andrew Cuomo's State of the State

​New Governor Andrew Cuomo just wrapped up his inaugural State of the State address. Did you miss it? There was a lot of folksy humor and clapping and quasi-inspirational stuff about working together, and trying to make Albany function, and serving the people of New York instead of "special intere ... More >>

Year in Film: Culture High

Young guns of the local rep scene

RezBook Hopes to Become the New OpenTable

thestar.comReservations of the future​ OpenTable is getting some competition in the online reservations game from RezBook, a new reservation and table management system that uses the iPad (because you can't be competitive in this day and age without an iPad).

U.S. Travelers Will No Longer Be Able to Travel With Their Favorite Large Ink Cartridges

A tampered-with large ink cartridge.​Well, this is going to put a damper on things. According to the latest air cargo security regulations (following reports of suspicious packages found on UPS planes en route from Yemen to Chicago, which turned out to contain explosives), airline passengers w ... More >>

Jeff Orlick of the 5-Boro Pizza Tour Launches Real Pizza of New York App

keepwaddling1/flickrThere's an app for this.​Jeff Orlick, best known for his 5-Boro Pizza Tour, has introduced the latest app every New York pizza lover needs: the Real Pizza of New York iPhone app.

Apple Apps Turn Religious: If Man is Five, Then the iPhone is Six and God is Seven

​America is under attack. It's "a new strain of strident atheism" and it's deadly. To the rescue? iPhone applications, according to the New York Times. And if you're on the other side of the war, there's tools for you, too -- alternative applications "arming nonbelievers for battle." It's like ... More >>

Dolphins Can Use iPads! (Flash Unnecessary for Cute)

​A dolphin in Mexico has now been trained to communicate which inanimate object he wants to play with via pecking an iPad. According to dolphin researcher Jack Kassewitz of SpeakDolphin.com (add to the list of jobs we want): "The dolphin loves the iPad. He can actually make the thing work. We' ... More >>

Things We Would Never Buy: The Solid-Gold, Diamond-Encrusted iPad

​In items we would never purchase even if we did have the money but that might be nice to see in person, and perhaps hold in our warm arms for just a moment, we have "The Solid Gold iPad SUPREME Edition" (uniquely designed and crafted by Katherine Hughes of Stuart Hughes, a company that's real ... More >>

The Lives of Others in DDR/DDR

Life in East Germany, caught on camera

Baby Using iPad Glimpse of Terminator-Like Future In Which Babies Crush Your Head With Their Minds

​If there's anything that reasonably makes older folk fear the future, it's when they struggle to keep up with the rapidly changing pace of technology. Adaptation, as we know, is crucial to survival. It prevents those younger than everyone else from vetting them out of society via natural sele ... More >>

iPad Arrives.

​The first release of the Apple iPad went on sale at 9 this morning to the long lines of customers who were camped out in front of Apple Stores and Best Buys waiting to buy them. The hand-held 9.5" touchscreen computers, which can access WiFi but not yet 3G (those go on sale later this month) ... More >>

Times Site Hacked, Fake Ad Feeds Malware to Users

​The Times lets readers know that they had a bit of a malware problem this weekend. "The malicious ad took over the browsers of many people visiting the site," the paper tells us, "as their screens filled with an image that seemed to show a scan for computer viruses." The scammers electronical ... More >>

Caroline Kennedy and 'Daily News' columnist Michael Daly: The princess and the pea-brain

Michael Daly's column has to be a put-on. If it's not, then give him an "F" for fatuous. In "Let's make Caroline Kennedy our special envoy to Washington," the self-serious Daily News scribe fights back his tears about Caroline Kennedy's withdrawal from the Senate appointment race and opines: Ma ... More >>

Improv Everywhere Bring Giant Desktops to Starbucks

Confessions of a Conflicted Mac User

So, Apple can run Windows. Think that'll settle the heart of this geek?

Berlin Haul: Fascinating But Cautious Retro From the DDR

Russell Simmons, Tax Man

Hip-hop mogul helps young and broke get refunds—for a price

Go For a Drive

Backing up your system should be fast, cheap, and totally under control

Big Spam Hunter

In which our hero tracks the hairy beast behind a skeezy mortgage offer

iPod Junkie

Where and how to get high off the hottest little gadget in the universe

Words Into Type

College Student Seeks Miracle Machine to Transform Lectures Into Notes

A Devoted Son Keeps Berlin All Quiet on the Western Front

Blue Notes

Tablet PCs: What's the Big Deal?

Buy the Book

Finding the Computer How-To That's Right for You

Slipped Disk

Switching to CD-RWs Will Save You Money

Digital Bodies in Real Time

Choreographers Inspire Other Artists to Electronic Experiments

Press Pause

Palmistry

Amiga Mia

Outside Chance

Meet the Thinkers Who'd Help Uncle Sam—If Only He'd Bring Them In

Probe My Ports

Adventures With Privacy Software

Searching in the Dark

Net Filtering Software Censors Much More Than Porn

Gangsta Gamin'

Rage Against the Machine in KingPin's Urban Underworld

New Word Order

Digital Graffiti or Communication Breakthrough?

The Body Electric

Home-Gym Gadgets and the Shape of Things To Come

Through the Carpal Tunnel

Tired of Typing? Slip on Some Cyborg Gloves.

Bubble Economy

Hackers' Excellent Adventures

How Underage Pranksters Ended Up in the Middle of an FBI Cybercrime Investigation

Access Denied

Did the thought police kill a Web site?