Digital-Lifestyle

Comcast Internet Outage Affects Chicago Area, NW Indiana and More: Started Sunday 7:30 p.m., Restored Midnight

Mon Dec 6, 2010 05:46 am Cardinal News

Comcast customers in Arlington Heights, Chicago, Northern Illinois, Northwest Indiana, Southwest Michigan and Minnesota were affected by an issue with their DNS servers. The issue caused customer computers, laptops, iPads, iPhones operating via wireless routers, […]

BlackBerry PlayBook in Development Looking Good Against Apple iPad

Sun Nov 21, 2010 01:56 pm Cardinal News

Video demonstration comparing BlackBerry PlayBook and iPad tablets in terms of browser speed, Adobe Flash support and HTML5 performance. Video show PlayBook rendering web pages faster than an Apple iPad. It has a smaller display, […]

Facebook Announces Seamless Messaging that Converges Other Systems

Wed Nov 17, 2010 03:14 pm Cardinal News

Facebook on Monday November 15, 2010 unveiled a new messaging platform that takes aim at one of the Internet’s first applications, e-mail. Mark Zuckerberg: It’s not e-mail, but it handles e-mail, Facebook messages, SMS, Facebook […]

Gamers ‘Kinect’ to New Xbox Motion Controls

Sat Oct 30, 2010 10:44 am Cardinal News

The new no-controller control system, Kinect for Xbox 360, hits stores next week. In AP’s weekly Video Game Video, Ubisoft offers a preview of its motion-sensing Kinect games. Kinect is scheduled to launch worldwide starting […]

Apple, Inc. Launches New MacBook Air Ultralight Laptop Computer with Flash Storage

Wed Oct 20, 2010 05:30 pm Cardinal News

Fresh off its best quarter in history, Apple is pushing forward at a Lion’s pace with a slew of new products. No optical storage, no mechanical hard drive. The new MacBook Air Ultralight Laptop Computer […]

Tech Issue Alert/Status: Google Street View Broken*

Thu Oct 7, 2010 10:12 am Cardinal News

Readers are advised that the Google Street View function — a service of Google Maps — has had issues displaying the street views this past week. The Cardinal first noticed an issue Tuesday, October 5, […]

How About That? Google Maps Already Has the Lattof-to-Mariano’s Update

Thu Sep 30, 2010 10:48 am Cardinal News

View Larger Map Latest Google Map showing the Mariano’s Fresh Market — first noticed on Thursday, September 30, 2010. Google maps is certainly a useful website for getting directions and understanding a neighborhood, and following […]

Twitter Tip: Use ‘Since’ to Search from a Specific Date

Sun Sep 26, 2010 03:24 am Cardinal News

Use ‘since’ immediately before a specific date to find tweets sent since that date. Example: superhero since:2009-07-16 The parameter above will find tweets containing “superhero” and sent since date “2009-07-16” (year-month-day). Check Arlington Heights area […]

Email Fraud from Mongolia: FBI Will Arrest Recipient if $10 Million Isn’t Claimed

Fri Sep 24, 2010 11:14 am Cardinal News

Check your inbox. There might be good news and bad news. Money, money — $10.5 million is waiting for you. But the FBI suspects you of being a terrorist and money-laundering your terrorist activities. Here’s […]

Twitter Mouseover Security Flaw ‘Clicks’ Twitter Users to Possible Harmful Websites

Tue Sep 21, 2010 10:40 am Cardinal News

Video demonstration of a security vulnerability on Twitter that is being actively exploited. More details on Sophos Labs Graham Cluley’s blog … Twitter is working on patching and preventing an XSS attack, which affected some […]

Galaxy Tab from Samsung: Android Contender to iPad

Thu Sep 16, 2010 09:59 pm Cardinal News

Price might be too high without contract. Otherwise, Samsung Galaxy Tab looks like nice competitor to Apple’s iPad. Samsung Galaxy Tab 7″ screen with high-resolution display Android 2.2 with Flash support 6 GB or 32 […]

Parrot AR.Drone: Consumer Wi-Fi Drone Helicopter-Quadricopter Controlled by iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch

Sun Sep 5, 2010 11:03 am Cardinal News

Video demonstration of the AR.Drone of flight operations: hovering, turning, tilting, panning, auto-stabilization. The AR.Drone with an on-board Wi-Fi system, can control the Parrot AR.Drone using an iPhone®, iPod Touch®, or an iPad®. Although, initially […]

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