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Are High School and College Students Leaving Facebook for Email?

There’s a very interesting analysis about Facebook users reported by Marshall Kirkpatrick on Read Write Web: Just when all the grown ups started figuring out Facebook, college and high school users...

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Google Chrome OS May Breathe New Life Into That Old PC In the Back of Your...

Chances are, you’re got an old PC sitting around.  Most likely it’s stashed away in the back of a closet in your house.  Behind that tennis racket you never pick up.  And right next to your dusty...

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Get It While it’s Hot! Our First Official Desktop Wallpaper

JJ and I are proud to announce our first official desktop wallpaper. I jokingly made this for JJ yesterday and we figured why not just offer it up. It’s inspired by a ridiculous term we’ve been joking...

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Dormant. But not extinct

It’s been a while since we popped our heads out of the sand around here.  It’s fair to say that Shiny New Toy has been in  a bit of hibernation mode for almost a year.  To say that we’ve folded our...

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Wired Magazine’s claim that “The Web is Dead”

Finally got around to reading last month’s Wired cover article proclaiming the death of the World Wide Web due to the App Store trend in every consumer electronic device; the popularity of walled...

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Three simple but incredibly useful tools

OK, two of these are really simple to use.  The third is a bit more involved.  But still incredibly useful.  All worth sharing.  So here we go… Down for everyone or just me? The next time one of your...

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Migrate your blog from WordPress to Tumblr

About a year ago, I decided to move the content of one of my personal blogs from a self hosted WordPress installation to the Tumblr platform after realizing that the Tumblr workflow that emphasized...

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Google’s latest shiny new toy- Google+

This morning, I received an invite into Google latest attempt to slow down Facebook – Google+.  It’s a service that has been receiving its fair share of initial praise from the technorati, probably...

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On the passing of Steve Jobs

And just like that, Steve Jobs was gone. (Note: I rarely cross post the same piece to multiple blogs.  But in a tribute to Steve Jobs, I’m going to do so with this post.  Steve liked to say that he...

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And after half a day with iOS 5

Friday and the delivery of my shiny new Apple iPhone 4S can’t come soon enough. Apple released the latest version of its mobile computing operating system – iOS 5 – which I proceeded to install on my...

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