Category Archives: Tech

7 Rules for Recording Police

Posted on April 10, 2012 by StevenTorresRamos

Last week the City of Boston agreed to pay Simon Glik $170,000 in damages and legal fees to settle a civil rights lawsuit stemming from his 2007 felony arrest for videotaping police roughing up a suspect. Prior to the settlement, … Continue reading →

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Chinese Kid Sells His Kidney for an iPad and iPhone, Suffers Renal Failure

Posted on April 6, 2012 by StevenTorresRamos

Though you might say youd give your left arm for an iPad, you only mean it figuratively. But one Chinese teen actually sold his kidney to make enough money to buy the Apple tablet and an iPhone, and now five … Continue reading →

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These Nanostars Kill Cancer Without Ever Penetrating a Cell

Posted on April 6, 2012 by StevenTorresRamos

Everyone cant stop talking about how nanotechnology is the future of healthcare, but so far weve not seen many useful applications. Finally, heres one: these nano-scale gold stars can kill cancer cells dead without ever entering them. via These Nanostars … Continue reading →

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Mac Flashback Trojan: Find Out If Youre One of the 600,000 Infected

Posted on April 5, 2012 by StevenTorresRamos

Theres a new Mac trojan thats been floating around, and its terrifying everyone. Its written in an unknown language, doesnt even need your password to compromise you, and now its apparently infected 600,000 users. Heres how to use Terminal to … Continue reading →

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Report: Apple Offering New iPad Replacements for Wi-Fi Issues

Posted on April 5, 2012 by StevenTorresRamos

9to5 Mac has received what appears to be a leaked confidential AppleCare document Apple acknowledges that they are investigating reports of Wi-Fi issues with the new iPad. And that repair centers and Apple stores should replace the 3rd generation units … Continue reading →

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Dropbox doubles referral rewards, offers up to 32GB for those dripping in charisma — Engadget

Posted on April 4, 2012 by StevenTorresRamos

That whole refer a friend thing must be working. Or maybe it isnt. Either way, Dropbox has felt the need to double the extra capacity you get as a reward for persuading your buddies that cloud storage really is 153x … Continue reading →

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DisplayFusion: Multi-Monitor Taskbar, Multi-Monitor Screen Savers, HotKeys, Multi-Monitor Wallpaper, Windows Logon Changer and more…

Posted on April 4, 2012 by StevenTorresRamos

Multiple Monitors Made Easy!DisplayFusion will make your multi-monitor life much easier. With powerful features like Multi-Monitor Taskbars, TitleBar Buttons and fully customizable HotKeys, DisplayFusion will make managing your multiple monitors easy. Take a look at some of the features below … Continue reading →

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Should I Keep My Personal and Professional Identities Completely Separate Online?

Posted on April 4, 2012 by StevenTorresRamos

Dear Lifehacker, I’m a pretty savvy person when it comes to getting my work on the web where people can see, but all this talk about Facebook passwords and things has me re-thinking my personal/professional boundaries. Should I set up … Continue reading →

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Teacher’s aide fired for refusing to hand over Facebook password

Posted on April 2, 2012 by StevenTorresRamos

A teacher’s aide at an elementary school was fired last year for refusing to give her Facebook login credentials to her supervisors, ZDNet reported on Sunday. In April 2011, Kimberly Hester signed on to Facebook while she was not at … Continue reading →

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Bump Pay Lets You PayPal Someone With A Tap, But Only In-Person | TechCrunch

Posted on March 29, 2012 by StevenTorresRamos

Now it’s as easy as a fist-pound to pay a friend back for dinner, drinks, or a cab. Bump, the popular contact sharing app developer, today releases a new standalone iOS app called Bump Pay that lets you transfer money via … Continue reading →