“It’s a terrible day in California,” Jason joked about the 79 degree weather. It isn’t often you find a geek with social skills; but a geek with social skills and musical talent is even more surprising. That doesn’t begin to scratch the surface for Jason Achilles Mezilis, guitarist of the emerging band Owl. The group,…
Please invite the new Facebook Home, Facebook’s desperate plea to stay relevant and cater to the number of addicted cell phone users and social media addicts. But my bluntness should come as no surprise because Geeks Anonymous is overly judgmental with a broken filter. The New Facebook Home Facebook Home is described as the mobile…
Over the past few years the battle of piracy between the industry and the many civilian pirates has heated up with geeks at the forefront. Industry execs claim that they are suffering major financial losses as young pirates use their knowledge to stick it to the “man”. It may have started with the music, taking…
YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley finally revealed his video sharing site competing with his former company, which is now one of Google’s largest breadwinners. Today Hurley announced, by way of Twitter, that he will soon launch his new site, MixBit. As mentioned in our original article, Google acquired YouTube’s services in 2006 for an astounding $1.65…
Cue the coffee machines and pull the plastic from over the baked goods because we finally have quite the crowd here at Geeks Anonymous. Sounds a bit twisted, but I am happy to see all the new faces share my addiction. It so happens we are never short of a supply because the tech news…
Welcome to the top 4 celebrity geeks. Celebrity geeks who openly embrace our culture. The famous geeks who slipped through the cracks of societal rejection, and display their love for technology on the public stage. Here we’ve addressed the best geek celebrities who are open about being just like us. Vin Diesel Yes, the Fast…
They often say the one thing we can count on failing are man-made things. Geeks understand that those are the only things we can trust. After man breaks our spirits here are the top 4 techie ways to get over a break up. Get Lost in the Game The Legend of Zelda is the greatest game ever…
Welcome back to Geeks Anonymous, we loved last week’s reception and support so lets try to top that this week! This tech week wasn’t too hectic outside of a couple big moves by a few companies. Lets start with the Adobe situation. Apple looks to re-assemble the pieces and by doing so they take Adobe…
Google continues to their “spring cleaning” and updates their mobile web Gmail service, renovating the site with a new, attractive look. The new user interface has a better look then the actual application in my opinion. There are a few minor improvements that make the navigation more functional and user friendly. The mobile email update…
This week in tech news brought a lot of drama and unsuspecting moves for big name companies, so our Geeks Anonymous recap should go smoother than expected. Lets start with the mourning for Google Reader…or lack thereof. Google referred to the situation as spring cleaning, a trivial reference if you ask me. Come July 1st…
The Cyber Security Challenge completed its third competition this week and names Stephen Miller the winner, which brings a lot of attention his way. The competition is over in a few months, which screams that participants should take a slow and steady approach, because the time period allows for quality work versus the quantity. Stephen…
YouTube may have not only found, but bred its toughest competition yet. Better yet, the competition is the founder of YouTube; Chad Hurley plans to launch a video sharing site. YouTube has had its share of competitors like Vimeo or more privately owned companies in the likes of Hulu and Netflix. Although as you may…
It isn’t uncommon that you may have not heard of Summit Series before but if so I advise you to get familiar. Summit began as an annual four day event which will grow into a community of upper-level thinkers, but let’s start from the beginning. Founded by Elliot Bisnow, Summit started in 2008 as a…
Welcome back to Geeks Anonymous, the cynical recap of the tech world of recent. First I must apologize for my absence, I relapsed, yes I relapsed. I took on the task of trying to upgrade all of my custom classes on my Xbox Live account; I learned my lesson so save the pep talk. But…
The greatest gadgets are the ones that are revolutionary, the products you can’t sleep over, and write on your Christmas list multiple times to get the point across to your parents. There have been innovations that we may remember but some stand alone as the most anticipated gadgets of all time; and society changing for…