It’s hard to keep up with technology on a regular basis. Advances come quickly and often target what the tech industry calls ‘early adopters’ (otherwise known, affectionately, as geeks). Most new products that come out these days never even make it to the regular public, and the ones that do often aren’t well understood.
That’s where I come in. As the resident Aquinian geek (and one of only a few dozen on campus) I feel it my duty to show off some of the latest and most useful new technologies available to us (often for free). I’ll be looking at social networking tools, communication platforms, mobile phones and gadgets, and helping you find ones that should make your life a little easier.
Here’s an example of some of the upcoming topics:
- How to use Twitter for fun and profit
- Review of the new Windows 7 (if it ever gets here in the mail)
- 5 Google tools that will change the way you think of the internet
- Awesome tools to fix, organize, and share your massive photo collections
- Make planning meetings quick and easy with social media
- Will the Droid finally succeed as the iPhone killer?
- How to make the internet faster on almost any computer.
- Where the internet memes are born. (Just a pre-warning, this won’t be ‘safe for work’)
My first project, coming out in a few days, will be a preview of Google Wave. After requesting an invite for about a month, I just got one to the limited preview today. Google says this project will change the way we communicate online, and even completely replace email as we know it (a technology older than the internet).
Is it worth the hype? Find out in our next edition of ‘The best tech you’ve never heard of” with me, Alex Solak.
