What if a stranger comes up to you and "follows" you [twitter]

Can I write on your wall? No, literally, your wall.

So........ No one at Google checked if the name of their products were already trademarked?

Now Google's getting sued over the name of their OS and Notebooks (because GOD FORBID they used an element as a name)

As an owner of an "Epic" 4G, I can rightfully say EPIC FAIL Google, as well as the company suing them.

I still don't understand why names of things can be trademarked. Doesn't it matter what quality the product is, and not the actual name?

I don't know, it could just be me.....

Anyways, if you want to go more into detail about this:
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/159798/20110608/google-isys-technologies-chromebook-chromebox-amazon-acer-samsung-bestbuy-google-sued-by-patent-mana.htm

Happy Late Birthday Les Paul!

This is the coolest doodle EVER! (Besides Pacman. You can't beat Pacman.....)

Anyways, someone actually played "Happy Birthday" on it here: http://www.google.com/webhp?tune=IAQIxBGgFMaIKQIxBGnJAaIqQITCGgDMGMMJ0SQTEIOOQc5VzDmA

And best of all, Google is keeping it up for another day :D Enjoy!

"Hey Mom" "How was your day?" "I tattooed all my friends to my arm!"

She what!?!
Yes, A woman actually did this; but only as a temporary tattoo!

.......As Techcrunch said:
Imagine the pain of defriending someone (if it were real of course!)

The Wii is a real console now?! The all new Wii U!

Get ready for some Kinect competition! (Because we all know the Playstation Move is pretty much a complete copy of the original Wii)

Oooooooo. I'm REAL scared: Webian OS

Gizmodo claimed this is a threat to Chrome OS. REALLY.

Enough Said.

Hey French! GENIUS idea! Put solar panels in space otherwise wasted! Who knew!

How come no one ever thought of this before? Seriously. Well done French........ Well done.

Chromebook Update! The Screen

Just a quick update, the screen hinges are becoming a bit loose, not so much that it is a threat to the computer's functionality or look, but it worries me. I've heard that this is common on CR48's, a true sign of excessive use of the device (a true tester!)

Just wanted to share!

The Chromebook Easter Egg: Explained!

Now, we all know that this egg was first discovered here: http://wellsb.com/post/6161876985/how-i-cracked-the-cr-48-easter-egg (An explanation of how he found it). 


But now, the people behind this have given a full explanation of the Egg, including all the .sys, .hal and .exe's!

"There's another message encoded in the image. The hexadecimal numbers are the ASCII representation of this text:

"Greetings from the Chrome OS x86 firmware team. This message is brought to you by Randall, Bill, Vadim, Gaurav, and Kelly. Also by the letter G and the number 42. If you've enjoyed this gadget, please join us at http://www.chromium.org to help make it even better. We now return you to your regularly scheduled program, already in progress. No animals were harmed in the production of this message. Apply only to affected area. Cape does not enable wearer to fly. Contents may have settled during shipment. Use no hooks."

And for the filenames:

firmware.exe      - We are the firmware team, after all.

wfrichar.sys      - [email address] is me.

rspanglr.sys      - [email address] is the Cr-48 firmware tech lead.

HeartAu.sys       - The starship Heart of Gold, from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

DevNull.SYS       - /dev/null is the special bitbucket device on *nix systems

goglplx.SYS       - The Googleplex is what some people call the Google corporate headquarters

mstrclas.SYS      - Those who rule the firmware are the Master Class!

MstrShak.SYS      - Master Shake, from the TV show Aqua Teen Hunger Force

Vega.SYS          - Originaly vga.sys (a video driver); I thought of the car from Chevrolet

Nova.SYS          - Another old Chevy

Gremlin.SYS       - Yet another old car, this one from AMC

TARDIS.SYS        - From Doctor Who, of course

Jupiter2.Sys      - From the old TV show Lost in Space

CAMRA.SYS         - The Campaign for Real Ale

wntrmute.sys      - The AI Wintermute, from William Gibson's Neuromancer

rdaneel.sys       - R. Daneel Olivaw, from a bunch of Isaac Asimov's novels

eschaton.sys      - I'm thinking of Charlie Stross' SF novel Singularity Sky

sundiver.sys      - The novel by David Brin

hal.dll           - The HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey

STARBUG.SYS       - The shuttlecraft from the BBC sitcom Red Dwarf

kryten.SYS        - The android from Red Dwarf

lister.sys        - The slacker/hero from Red Dwarf

HOLLY.SYS         - The computer from Red Dwarf

SERMOUSE.SYS      - Serial mouse driver, I believe

PARMOUSE.SYS      - So of course there must be a parallel mouse driver

MTYMOUSE.SYS      - Mighty Mouse! Here I come to save the day! (a cartoon from my childhood)

DngrMouS.SYS      - Danger Mouse, another mouse-themed cartoon

mkymouse.SYS      - Some other cartoon mouse of some sort...

mnemouse.SYS      - ... and his girlfriend.

HNdlNqry.sys      - The spaceship Hot Needle of Inquiry, from Larry Niven's Ringworld series

serial.sys        - The serial port driver

cereal.SYS        - The cereal port driver

browser.sys       - Chrome OS has a browser, right?

bowser.sys        - Jon "Bowzer" Bauman

shanana.sys       - Sha-Na-Na, the band that Bowzer sings in

zzzztop.sys       - ZZ Top, a band I like better

bsod.SYS          - This screen

enufstop.SYS      - Enough! Stop!

croskrnl.exe      - If the kernel has a name, it would be CrOS.

B0Fh              - The IT hero in a series of stories by Simon Travaglia

NIGHTMAREGREEN    - A really Bad Thing from the Laundry series of SF novels by Charlie Stross"

Very well done guys! 

Hey Bill Gates! Cheapskate! You ruined the web!

You just HAD to use a knockoff font huh!

Improv Everywhere's latest video: The Mute Button

If I saw this in the street, I would join in, right then and there. Great job guys!

The New York Times' article on Chromebooks is RIDICULOUS

" There’s no “desktop;” there’s no hard drive."
Yeah.....Wrong. Completely.


"O.K. I mean, I’m sort of with you here, but walk me through this."
Who writes professionally like that? A 6 year old?


"If you do not have a Google account, you can log in as a guest."
OR MAKE A NEW ACCOUNT


" There are no other programs or applications to use."
I dont know what screen you're looking at, but I have a nice 32 apps......


"So, with these netbooks and laptops that cost the same or less, and weigh the same or less, and come with screens bigger and smaller than Chromebooks, I could still do all those cloud-based things you were talking about, but I could also have a full-fledged computer as well?

Yes. So I would want a Chromebook because…? Good question.

They REALLY dissed Chromebooks here, and I don't blame them for one reason: Chromebooks cost WAY too much. I have owned 4 netbooks and each has proved to be a powerful device. Netbooks can even run Mac OS X at normal speeds! But the focus of these devices isn't iMovie, or COD; it's the web. 

So shout out to Sam Grobart, great job on the article! [NOT] I can't wait for your next article about how the news doesn't investigate in their topic. Oh wait, you already wrote it.