I believe I was in my 4th grade when I first read Bram Stoker’s classic Dracula. To my surprise Dracula was from Romania, my own country, and I had a mixed feeling between fear and proud. It was soon after that I learned in history lessons about Vlad Tepes, one of […]
The title of this post has an intentional rhyme in it, but that’s not a hint that I’ll start rapping app reviews from now on. I bought a giraffe-toy about a year ago for my toddler and whenever you squeezed its leg (the toys’ leg that is) it started singing:
“Patty […]
Americans alone use more than 90 million tons of paper per year (according to TAPPI, a professional organization dedicated to the paper industry). That’s an average of over 315 kg (or 700 pounds) for each individual that’s consumed every year. Roughly you could say that 1 kg of paper is used […]
Ever had that feeling when listening to a newly discovered song that you like it because it’s different, something that you’ve never heard until then? Well that feeling is wrong, the new melody you discovered does actually contain sounds your brain is already familiar with and that’s the main reason you […]
More than 90.000 apps in Google Play offer solutions to users searching for news. This goes to show how important this category is and how high the demand for these apps is. It’s no wonder that most popular newspapers have released their own apps (some free, others paid) and these […]
Parents all over the world find it easier to teach their children through fear when they don’t listen, commonly scaring the Bejesus out of them with monsters. There are those that hide in the dark, under the bed, in the woods, those that eat disobeying kids, giants, flying monsters and any […]
“The cake is a lie”. That’s the phrase coming through my mind everytime I hear or see the word cake. If this meme doesn’t ring a bell for you it’s because you haven’t played Portal, a game where your goal was to escape the deadly-puzzle environment “guided” by a malefic entity, […]
VoIP is an abbreviation of voice over Internet Protocol and it practically refers to the communication techniques involved in transmitting data (voice, multimedia) via the Internet. A VoIP program basically takes an analog audio signal, such as the one you transmit when talking on a regular phone and turns it in […]
When I was little my parents were crazy over Dallas, the famous TV series. They knew exactly at what hour it was airing and all our activities in that day had to lead to being home when the show would air. It was easy back then to manage shows like that […]
The word news was born from the need to have a plural version of “new”. It was used first in the 14th century as a way of presenting information about selected events. Since the first newspaper saw the light of day 3 centuries later, the preferred method of communicating the news […]