Tag Archives: Internet

Early last year after reading a book about Lucasfilm, I wanted much more information on my beloved games like Maniac Mansion, Secret of Monkey Island or Loom. I ended up browsing Wikipedia for info on these titles, and that in turn gave me the idea of … Continue reading →

Google has revamped its image search. Instead of showing image information right below individual images in the results overview, you’ll now get just the image thumbnail. Hover over it, and the thumbnail will grow a bit in size and show its informa… Continue reading →

We created an iPhone app called “Magic Artist”. What it does is paint a picture based on a snapshot you take (or a photo from your phone’s album). You can see brush stroke by brush stroke being painted. Hope you like it, feedback welcome. If you … Continue reading →

Google lets you sign up for a program called App Inventor that is meant to make Android mobile app creation easy… by getting rid of most of what’s traditionally associated with programming. Google suggests that “[i]nstead of writing code, you v… Continue reading →

TechCrunch writes: “Google has quietly (secretly, one might say) invested somewhere between $100 million and $200 million in social gaming behemoth Zynga, we’ve confirmed from multiple sources. (…) Zynga will be the cornerstone of a new Google Ga… Continue reading →

Google CEO Eric Schmidt spoke at the Activate 2010, and the Guardian has an overview of some of his comments. Eric says “Mobile is the hottest area of computer technology … The smartest developers now are writing apps for mobile before they write f… Continue reading →

Over at Reddit, people who work at Google are invited to tell what it’s really like there. Knowing that some replies posted in such threads may be fake, here are three comments, from the negative to the positive.

CinoBoo writes:

I’ve been there … Continue reading →