MarkAaron Mondays!?

MarkAaronTech is

UP!!!

check it out here!

School is rough and stuff is tough and without a long story IVE BEEN GONE!  But I wanted to make sure i had a very quick post about what i hope to be doing in the future.

I just got back from a fantastic Thanksgiving with friends and family.  Though i hesitated for a good 20 years to ever try any food at all (check that out here:  CHICKEN TENDERS?!).  I enjoyed some delicious ham and turkey.  Over the turkey and appetizers of chips and queso, i also got talking to one of my cousins, the CouponPrincess.  She talked about how she started her blog a while ago and i observed how well she is doing!  So without further hesitation i will now let you know what i intend to do.

This blog is mainly friends/family and a few others.  I introduce to you all “MarkAaronTech”!!!  This will be the new location for all of my nerdiness and tech blah to flow over into.  I hope to launch the new blog within a week.  I will maintain this blog as well as a social and “my life” blog.  But make sure you all check it out and follow me on twitter! I plan on making a blog post or video every monday.

On a related note…  the Kinect for Xbox is JUST LIKE the video in the last blog i posted.  See what creativity can do!?

MAS!

A quick post!

Not a lot of CRAZY stuff that i have not already touched in previous blogs…  but i wanted to give a quick update!  As many of you know, i am in a show and so i am very busy, and will likely be unable to update again for another week.

Pirates beware! Recently 4 million accounts and passwords were accessed in a hack of thepiratebay.org (a popular public torrent website).  You may find it worrisome that they had access to “create, delete, modify or view all user information, including the number and name of file trackers or torrents uploaded by users.”  No worries though,  the pirate bay has patched the breach in the hull and is back in full force!

With the addition of new iPhone ads, developer of the “Flashlight” application pulled in $1,400 in one day.  Now, i love when a quality programmer is compensated accordingly for the work they have done, but $30,000 a month seems a bit steep.  True, some of this could have just been hype about the new ads and iPhone users clicked on it to see what it was all about, but still, thats a lot of moulah!

Australia VS. Google? Many countries are looking into the recent collection of Wi-fi data that took place in the land of Google.  It was a simple part of the Streetview project that took a sour turn for Google.  Australians (as anyone would) felt that their privacy had been invaded.  Looks like Facebook isnt the only one dealing with privacy issues. Google officials say, “We want to reiterate to Australians that this was a mistake for which we are sincerely sorry. Maintaining people’s trust is crucial to everything we do and we have to earn that trust every single day. We are acutely aware that we failed badly here,”

Johnny Lee is amazing.  Because i am short on time, ill just say, watch the video.

MAS

More of the same, and then some!

You (assuming you are just like me…) will be excited to see that the Android market is pulling forward still!   Although this data does NOT include the recent iPhone 4 launch… it also does not show how awful the new iPhone turned out to be.  The order remains RIM, Apple, Microsoft, Google, and Palm.  Pay attentiont, though, to the point change.  Most companies wavered about a point or two, but Android increased a whopping four points during this 3 month period.  I can only expect the same (and more) will occur when the Droid X, my secret lover, is launched.

On a related note, i have been getting mixed feedback from users of the Evo.  Some say it lacks the convenience of their old Palm phones because of the poor quality of Applications.  I assume that this will change as the 4G market grows, but if this is a large concern for you, perhaps you should stick with your 3G phone a little bit longer (bear in mind you can get all the 3G apps you had on your 4G phone as well). Others say that is a great phone.  James Wood, a friend, is sporting one of the more fancy applications on the Evo, a $4.00 Nintendo Advanced Emulator!  With which he can play all of the old Pokemon games we all love.  Perhaps Smartphones will be the console of the future?  Food for thought.

Burnt iPhone

While we are on the subject of phones… their was recently an instance where a users iPhone burst into flames!  Apple ensures the customer it was a USB error, and not a user error, and his unit was since replaced.  But that doesnt change the fact that this is just more wood to throw into the fire (get it?) that is the iPhone 4.  The users hand was “slightly burned” during the incident, and i am sure Apple will suck up good to the needs of this customer to avoid further embarrassment.

Facebook, too, is in more hot water. Facebook, being a private company, dances to the sound of its own drum.  This is usually fine, except for when it infringes on others privacy.  Canada is taking a class-action privacy lawsuit against Facebook. Donald J. Woligroski is the main member of the suit who believes his privacy has been abused.  The suit accuses Facebook of misrepresenting its privacy policy and deliberately using Woligroski’s  personal information for its own commercial gain.  Facebook has claimed that the lawsuit has no merit and is false, but because of its Class-action nature, all Canadians who use Facebook are eligible to fight!  Take up arms my Canadian brethren!!!

And lastly, Google has publicly declared that it would stop redirecting Chinese web queries to its uncensored Hong Kong site.  This began in March when it was time for Google to renew their ICP license in China.  What changed?  China has renewed Googles Internet Content Provider’s license, and asked that Google no longer redirect their searches.  A recent statement from Google says, “We are very pleased… and we look forward to continuing to provide web search and local products to our users in China.”  Many people are upset, saying Google “gave in”, but if you step into Google’s shoes, it was just the smarter business decision not to piss off an entire nation.

MAS