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Software

  • Blogs

    April 4, 2012

    Can an App Prevent Rape?

    Sometime last year, Nancy Schwartzman came across a tech competition -- the 2011 White House "Apps Against Abuse Technology Contest." The Brooklyn filmmaker and founder of The Line Campaign wondered: can a simple app prevent sexual assault and dating violence? So the Sunset Park resident partnered ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 13, 2012

    NYPD Officers Can Now Use Basic Technology to Get Your Stolen iPhone Back

    ​Don't worry, New Yorkers. Crime rates might be up this year due to warm weather, but the NYPD is ON IT! The police department is now officially training officers to use the Find My iPhone application, to help aid in the recovery of stolen mini-computers everywhere. In an internal training m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 6, 2011

    App Makes Complaining About the Cabbie Who Wouldn't Take You to Brooklyn Even Easier

    ​Complaining about taxi service is something of a New York City hobby, whether it's justified or not. But the systems through which you can complain (calling 311, or reporting a complaint online) can be cumbersome, especially when you're still in the cab. However! There's an app for that, avai ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2011

    Steve Jobs's Death and the Legacy of the Foxconn Factory Suicides

    It was a big day for American capitalism yesterday. Nothing captured the dichotomy of how citizens were thinking about it better than the above tweet on how a captain of industry was being eulogized (after the suicides of his de-facto factory workers have largely been ignored), on the same day Wall ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2011

    This Aerial Shot of Yesterday's Occupy Wall Street March Doesn't Look Real

    That photo, with or without insipid caption, has been making the rounds on Facebook and Tumblr today. It purports to be an aerial shot of yesterday's massive Occupy Wall Street/union march. It's certainly very impressive, but don't be fooled. It's probably not real.

  • Film

    August 17, 2011

    There Is Nothing Subliminal in This Headline for Programming the Nation?

    That photo, with or without insipid caption, has been making the rounds on Facebook and Tumblr today. It purports to be an aerial shot of yesterday's massive Occupy Wall Street/union march. It's certainly very impressive, but don't be fooled. It's probably not real.

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2011

    9/11 Augmented Reality App Lets You Put the Twin Towers Anywhere You Remember Them

    ​Brian August is a guy who believes in stories. For nearly 10 years, he has been mulling the creation of 110 Stories, a project that would bring together the collective memories of anyone who'd ever gazed out upon the World Trade Center from as far away as Jersey and Connecticut, as well as fr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2011

    "Who's My Landlord?" App Loses, But Still Useful!

    ​Mayor Mike Bloomberg announced the winners of the second-annual NYC BigApps 2.0 Competition on Thursday night. This cool city-run competition gives out cash prizes to software developers who use city data sets to build apps that make it easier for people to navigate the city. Unfortunately, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 14, 2011

    NYC Health Department Launches App for Free Condoms; Also, Reminds You How to Use a Condom

    ​As we mentioned earlier, today is not just the special day of snuggles and commitment that everybody's all moony about, it's also the day of safe sexual encounters. And it's our own Mayor Bloomberg's birthday, to boot. In honor of this fortuitous triumvirate of occasions, the New York City He ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 18, 2010

    Gawker Launching New Blog in Response to Massive Gnosis Hack

    ​Thomas Plunkett, Gawker Media's chief technology officer, announced yesterday in a staff memo that the company will be launching "a public Gawker Tech & Product blog," which he called "a long time coming." Slated for early next week, the new blog "will communicate product information as well ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2010

    Download: Wires Under Tension, "Mnemonics In Motion"

    Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. ​Bronx duo Wires Under Tension play a fluttering post-'90s post-rock churn without the introspection or meandering--in essence, they go in for the kill. Like Tortoise fueled by Hot 97, the cycling mi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2010

    Apple's Nu-Censorship: Freedom From Porn and Freedom From Farting

    ​Apple's irritatingly named "App Store" has plenty of applications you can buy for your phone, none of which have porn on them, because Steve Jobs is trying to save the world from porn. [Full Disclosure: We are not.] He is also, apparently, now trying to save the world from farts.

  • Voice Choices

    September 1, 2010

    Linkin Park

    ​Apple's irritatingly named "App Store" has plenty of applications you can buy for your phone, none of which have porn on them, because Steve Jobs is trying to save the world from porn. [Full Disclosure: We are not.] He is also, apparently, now trying to save the world from farts.

  • Blogs

    August 20, 2010

    Adventures in Sustainability at Whole Foods' Fish Counter

    ​Whole Foods cloaks itself in a veneer of eco-virtuousness, patting itself on the back for selling some local produce and certified humanely raised meat, giving customers the comfortable feeling that they are somehow doing the world a favor by shopping there. But when it comes to the fish co ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 26, 2010

    Molly Dilworth, Public Artist, Paints a River in Times Square

    "Cool Water, Hot Island" rendering by Molly Dilworth via Treehugger.com​If you live in New York, you probably only pass through Times Square to transfer subway lines -- or to rush into your place of work, head down, all business. But you should really take a moment to check out Molly Dilworth' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 19, 2010

    Google Wave Finally Available to the World. But Does Anyone Care?

    Back in the day, like last October, we were ravenously scavenging for that coveted Google Wave invite that was going to change the way we communicated online forever and ever. Some crazies even bid $5000 for one on eBay. Then we actually got it and the hype immediately died.

  • Blogs

    November 24, 2009

    Google Apologizes for Michelle Obama Image Bomb

    ​The latest Google Bomb is apparently this awful Photoshop of Michelle Obama, which comes up first when you look for her on Google Images. Google, being devoted to free exchange of ideas (void in China) has chosen not to game its system, but has placed an ad on the page to explain its policie ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 2, 2009

    End of an Era: Planet Thailand Is Closed

    Brownstoner​Brooklyn11211 reports that Planet Thailand, the cavernous pan-Asian restaurant that helped put Williamsburg on the restaurant map back in the '90s, has closed for good. The closure was confirmed by an employee at the restaurant's sister location in Chelsea, which will remain open. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2009

    New Yorker Review Makes Writing Classes Look Fun, Useless

    Louis Menand's New Yorker review of Mark McGurl's The Program Era, a history of the rise of university writing programs and workshops, is subtitled, "Should creative writing be taught?" Despite itself, the review does not encourage a positive answer. Menand tells us that "by 1975, there were fiftee ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 30, 2009

    Lars Ulrich in a Cowboy Hat, FTW: The Best Three Microsoft Songsmith Remixes

    In the annals of inadvertent viral humiliation, the Microsoft Songsmith ad falls squarely between Tay Zonday and the Numa Numa Guy--cringeworthy, but not permanently ruinous. In case you've missed this particular case of public humiliation, Songsmith is Microsoft's new music-making software, a Gar ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 17, 2008

    Caroline Kennedy in the Senate? Gag me with a silver spoon.

    In the annals of inadvertent viral humiliation, the Microsoft Songsmith ad falls squarely between Tay Zonday and the Numa Numa Guy--cringeworthy, but not permanently ruinous. In case you've missed this particular case of public humiliation, Songsmith is Microsoft's new music-making software, a Gar ... More >>

  • News

    April 24, 2007

    Having Won a Pulitzer for Exposing Data Mining, Times Now Eager to Do Its Own Data Mining

    In the annals of inadvertent viral humiliation, the Microsoft Songsmith ad falls squarely between Tay Zonday and the Numa Numa Guy--cringeworthy, but not permanently ruinous. In case you've missed this particular case of public humiliation, Songsmith is Microsoft's new music-making software, a Gar ... More >>

  • Art

    April 4, 2006

    Scattered Class

    Software gives peek at admissions odds

  • Screens

    February 28, 2006

    Mediocre TV

    It's the chronic—what?—woes of freeware Web television

  • Screens

    February 21, 2006

    Too Damn Skype

    As Google fills China's prisons, will Internet phoning cave to spying?

  • Music

    November 15, 2005

    Music

    As Google fills China's prisons, will Internet phoning cave to spying?

  • Screens

    February 8, 2005

    We Are the Borg

    Questing for mind domination and an answer to where the fuck your keys are, G----e maps the world

  • News

    October 5, 2004

    Hits and Bits

    Cheap and simple software choices for capturing webcasts on your iPod

  • News

    September 14, 2004

    Fax of Life

    Yes, Virginia, you can send and receive through a desktop. Here's how.

  • News

    June 22, 2004

    Go For a Drive

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

  • News

    March 23, 2004

    The Heavyweight Blues

    Wanted: A cheap laptop ready to ramble. Under five pounds, please.

  • News

    January 13, 2004

    Wesley Clark Answers the People's Questions

    The General Asserts the Importance of Faith, Explains How He Became a Patriot and a Democrat

  • News

    October 14, 2003

    Trojan XL

    How to Get the Malicious Delude Program Out of Your Computer

  • News

    September 16, 2003

    Wired to Wired

    Dean Finds That Courting Blogocrats Means Answering Tough Questions

  • News

    June 17, 2003

    Afterglow

    How to Make Your Computer Porn-Free

  • Books

    May 27, 2003

    Buggin' Out

    Abort, Retry, Fail?

  • News

    September 24, 2002

    License to Ill

    Abort, Retry, Fail?

  • News

    September 10, 2002

    Cheap Shot

    Abort, Retry, Fail?

  • Books

    July 31, 2001

    Net Returns

    Abort, Retry, Fail?

  • News

    September 19, 2000

    The Human Race Machine

    Artist Seeks Truth About the Fiction of Race

  • News

    July 4, 2000

    Modem Patriots

    Silicon Alley Chokes on Proposed European Tax

  • News

    January 18, 2000

    Left To My Own Devices

    Memoirs of a wired student

  • Long Island Voice

    November 23, 1999

    Pure Play

    Memoirs of a wired student

  • News

    November 16, 1999

    Pure Play

    At the re:play Conference, the Gaming World Longs for Legitimacy

  • News

    August 3, 1999

    Electronic Yields

    Charting the Race to Artificially Gauge Intelligence

  • News

    August 3, 1999

    Studio Recording

    Burn, Baby, Burn: 'Book Club' Evolves

  • News

    January 12, 1999

    Recreating a Rialto

    Can the global village be saved from monotony?

  • Music

    May 19, 1998

    Dynamo Hum

    Can the global village be saved from monotony?

  • News

    January 27, 1998

    Echoing Forth

    Can the global village be saved from monotony?

  • News

    December 16, 1997

    Ground Zero

    Can the global village be saved from monotony?

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