The new $99 “Backup Plus” from Seagate holds a terabyte of storage in a drive that can fit in a shirt pocket. It works with both Windows and Mac and you can go back and forth between them. It automatically backs up all your files and the photos and videos you share on Facebook and Flickr.
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Go to the National Geographic web site for a huge collection of maps, both old and modern. NASA has great space photos and some galactic maps. Remember, though, as the semanticist Count Alfred Korzybski said: “The map is not the territory.”
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Fixing computers that have serious problems has become a big business. If you happen to be the one who created the problem in the first place, you are ideally positioned to fix it. Here’s how it works:
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When a 13-year-old relative of ours asked for a copy of Nero video editing, we thought that maybe it wasn’t too techie for us after all. The new Nero 12 makes you feel like a big shot film editor. For example, the program turned a shaky scene of a girl running toward her mother into an impressive slow-motion sequence like a movie. To get that effect, you drag the slow motion icon (it’s a little square that says “slow motion”) over the video clip. Another icon removes shakiness. You can apply a special effect like slow motion to just a few seconds of your movie or all of it. If you want to make a 3D movie, you can do […]
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The Mark Zuckerberg comic book sold out on its first day. So now we have the Mark Zuckerberg graphic novel for $11. It’s titled “Mark Zuckerberg: Creator of Facebook,” and has expanded biographical info and illustrations in 48 pages. (How much of a biography can there be for a guy who’s 28?) There’s a $4 version for Kindle, Nook and iPad/iPhone.
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Facebook.com/WorldwideCollection is a travelogue of photos from all over the world. View an incredible waterfall in Turkey, a Swiss home built right into a hillside, two seas meeting in Alaska, and two lionesses walking a baby lion down a road. All are awesome.
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TinyUrl.com/Wanderlustmaps shows the routes taken by famous explorers, all the way up to modern times and people like Jack Kerouac of the beat generation. We were surprised to see how far Captain Cook wandered off course on his way back from New Zealand and Australia in 1768. Got swept out to sea, you might say. Clicking “explore” gives you a photo and story for each point on the voyage. We read that Cook’s scientific experiments were a cover for England’s true purpose of finding a southern continent and claiming it for the crown. They found something called Australia. We learned that Magellan and his crew survived by eating leather straps from the ship’s rigging. No word on how prepared.
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