Tag archive: Snow

Discovered this weekend, search giant Google added a holiday-themed Easter Egg to the search engine similar to the Barrel Roll Easter Egg added during November. When a user types “Let It Snow” into the search engine, the search results include links to YouTube to hear Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Michael Buble sing the popular holiday song as well as links to lyrics for the song. However, users will notice snowflakes to start… Read More

There is probably nothing worse than walking out your door early in the morning only to find that you need an extra ten minutes to scrape all the snow off your car before heading to work. If you don't have a garage and live somewhere with snow, spending a few bucks on this handy little invention will probably save you a lot of time and aggravation on those snowy mornings. The Snowdozer ($17) is your basic ice/snow scraper, but tricked out… Read More

Rumors are that Apple will be showing its new OS at next month’s Macworld, and that it has a few surprises up its sleeve. The word is that Snow Leopard, as it’s currently known, will ship earlier than expected, well before Microsoft releases Windows 7. But the bigger surprises will not be on obvious view. The Guardian reports that Snow Leopard is likely to contain a pair of technologies that will speed up software without… Read More

I often get a kick out of the fact that people repeat the same mistakes over and over again. When Xerox executives first saw a Graphical UI and a mouse they thought it was a toy that no one would want. Yet today Microsoft and Apple are household names and besides, when was the last time you saw the Xerox brand on anything? When Windows came out, folks just couldn’t see the advantage of moving away from the perfectly good command… Read More