Comment & Opinion Category
TFTS Stands Against SOPA & PIPA
When I sit down and think about my job, I realize that I am incredibly lucky. 20 years ago, job opportunities like this simply didn’t exist. If you wanted to write for a living, you either needed to have an incredibly wild imagination, or you had to be lucky enough [...]
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Representative Lamar Smith Removes DNS Blocking Provision From SOPA
There’s a lot of really bad things about the pending Stop Online Piracy Act, but today, one of the worst has been removed. Representative Lamar Smith, the main sponsor and author of SOPA (or, as we like to call him around these parts, internet enemy number one) has removed the [...]
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The Problem With Online Passes
2009 was a year that changed gaming as we know it. It was in that year, in the month of November, that Electronic Arts integrated Project Ten Dollar into one of its games for the first time. Dragon Age: Origins was the name of the game, and buying a new [...]
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Geeks Corner, How I Use Google Services With My iPhone
Another week has passed which means I have another Geeks Corner column ready for you. Fortunately for my checking account I was able to go a full week without any new purchases, though there is still an iPhone 4S that will be ordered once my current contract ends with Verizon [...]
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Geeks Corner, I Did It Again & Likely Will Again Soon
Well dear readers, another Friday is upon us and that means another Geeks Corner column for you to read (and hopefully enjoy). That being said, there is the obvious story in here, we all saw the passing of a legend in the tech industry this week, which I am sure [...]
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Geeks Corner, Caught By The Hype
Coming as a bit of a follow-up to last weeks overabundance post, lets discuss something stupid that I recently did — I got caught by the hype and it resulted in me spending just over $150. Granted, the stupid part was not because I could not afford the item I [...]
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Geeks Corner, Overabundance Of Choice
As mentioned at the end of last weeks Geeks Corner, I wanted to discuss an issue that I find troubling, the overabundance of tech. Granted, this may or may not be quite as much an issue for everyone, however, on the flip side I have a hard time believing that [...]
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Geeks Corner: The Introduction
Greetings dear TFTS readers, someone was finally brave enough to give me feature billing, which means that I should start this off by giving a quick thanks to Andrew, the owner and man behind the scenes who probably works way harder as compared to the writers to truly make sure [...]
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U.S. Nuclear Disaster Waiting to Happen at the Nebraska Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant?
The main side effect of that terrible earthquake that hit Japan earlier this year was that nuclear catastrophe that followed. The events that lead to the nuclear meltdown, and Japan’s worthless efforts to prevent what seemed to be inevitable from the start, reminded governments around the world of this potential [...]
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Facebook Project Spartan, an Alternative to Apple’s App Store; Besides iOS Jailbreak
Well this was sort of unexpected and I say sort of because, sooner or later, one of the giants out there would have come up with such an idea, creating an HTML5-based app store that would work on multiple mobile devices, and not only, and that would be ready to [...]
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