PTJ 101 News: Song of Dice and Ire
This past Tuesday was supposed to be the end of the first-round public comment period for the proposed Net Neutrality (or Open Internet) rules but forth by the Federal Communications Commission. Due to an overwhelming volume of people trying to deposit their $0.2, however, the FCC has now extended the initial round of comments until Friday, [...]
PTJ 100 News: Wink, Wink, Nudge, Nudge
Oh, Facebook. The revelation of your controversial “emotional contagion” experiment was weeks ago, but people are still talking about it. (In case you were on vacation, too, this was the one where Facebook deliberately tampered with the feeds of about 700,000 users back in January 2012 and took note of how those people reacted to [...]
(Hopefully) Helpful Hint: Remote Locations
Set-top boxes are great for streaming all kinds of new video from the Internet onto your TV screen, but have you ever noticed what a pain it is to enter network passwords or YouTube search terms by tapping around with the remote control? It’s like trying to type one letter at a time with a chopstick [...]
ON VACATION
J.D. and El Kaiser are off for a little patriotic summer fun, but will be back in action next week. Happy Fourth of July Long Weekend, American Jammers. Happy Thursday to our international listeners!
PTJ 99 News: Gonna Party Like It’s Episode 99
Google’s I/O Conference is happening at the Moscone Center out in beautiful downtown San Francisco this week. As happens at these Big Dev Lovefests, major announcements are made. Among other things, Google previewed its upcoming “Android L” release, which is said to be the biggest update to the mobile operating system yet. “Android L” features 5,000 new [...]
(Hopefully) Helpful Hint: Change the Past
Ever done a mass-photo upload into a Flickr album and found the pictures to be out of order — or out of the order you want them to be in? Maybe you uploaded the photos on different days from different devices, or the date setting was wrong on your camera. If this has happened to you, fear not. You can [...]
PTJ 98: Amazon Starts Another Fire and Security on The Go
David Perry, now a threat strategist for the international computer-security firm F-Secure, joins us on this week’s episode to discuss the current state of mobile security. Interested in testing out F-Secure’s one-button Freedome app on your Android device or iPhone? Check it out here, as well as a short message about privacy from The Hoff himself. And a big thanks to Jocelyn Gonzales [...]
PTJ 98 News: Earth, Wind and Fire
That Amazon 3D smartphone first revealed in April by the Boy Genius Report blog has now been officially announced: It’s called the Fire smartphone, and let’s hope it never has an overheating battery problem. As it did with Apple’s original iPhone back in 2007, AT&T has emerged as the exclusive carrier for the phone. Amazon’s [...]
PTJ 97: Descent Into Casual Gaming and Tips for Better Throwback Photos
El Kaiser makes a difficult confession: he’s traded in his first person shooters for crushing candy and fuming feathered friends. Throwback Thursdays on Twitter and Facebook have people digging through their old photo albums but if your old snapshots haven’t held up too well over the years J.D. has tips for how to spruce them [...]
PTJ 97 News: All Ears
If it’s June and the WWDC is over, it must be time for the Electronic Entertainment Expo! The show opened in Los Angeles earlier this week to show off this year’s offerings for the gaming crowd; sites like GameSpot and Kotaku have the latest news. Some early announcements included Sony’s new PlayStation TV, formerly the PlayStation Vita TV, a $99 [...]