Monthly Archive: April 2013

60 Day Challenge 2.0

Last summer I attempted 60 days without technology (my full journal here) and I found it really rewarding. So much so, that for the next ten days I will be out of the reach of technology, with nothing more than a camera (which I will soon review here), in beautiful Guyana (it’s above Brazil and next to Suriname). Please check out that journal, and...

Google Takes on Old Challenge With New Technology

Google Ideas, Google’s global issues think tank, announced this week a $3 million investment that they’re making into creating a global human trafficking hotline network, helping to combat a problem that has been worsening for literally hundreds of years After holding various events, and discussions on illicit networks, slavery, and human trafficking, Google ideas has started developing a system for tracking trafficking trends on...

You May Have Noticed We Were Down Yesterday

While experimenting with speeding this site up, I accidentally brought this site down for nearly six hours yesterday. After the few minutes of repairs required, the rest of the time it was down was thanks to our domain files, the files that bring you from Appstorechronicle.com to our server, which needed to adjust.   Now we’re back, and we should be up for the...

How To Quickly and Cheaply Run Windows on a Mac

Like many professionals, I need to run some Windows-only software, but my main computer is a mac. After a few hours, I had Windows apps running alongside my mac apps, and I did it all for under $100 (about $60 for me personally). Here’s how we ran Windows quickly and cheaply on a Mac, using Parallels Desktop 8. What You’ll Need: A Mac Parallels...

Exclusive: Mark Zuckerberg in His Own Words

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook is now an adult, but how would he describe himself at 15? We have an exclusive description found on a long-abandoned webpage of the tech prodige. See this long lost, hilarious childhood photo as well.   Hi, my name is…Slim Shady. No, really, my name is Slim Shady. Just kidding, my name is Mark (for those of you that...