Author Archives: webmeister Bud
Bud's Weekly Geek-out :: Facebook Timeline exploit
Today on Bud's Weekly Geek-out . . . What's a conscientious geek to do when he discovers a Facebook exploit (allowing anyone to post anything to anyone else's Timeline), but Facebook security doesn't ...
Aug 21, 2013
Bud's Weekly Geek-out :: Day of Gaming
Today on Bud's Weekly Geek-out . . . UVic will host a Day of Gaming this Sunday with drop-in board and card games, tournament play, learn-to-play sessions for, a silent auction of gently used games, d...
Aug 14, 2013
Bud's Weekly Geek-out :: Steerable paper airplanes
Today on Bud's Weekly Geek-out . . . we can print 3D organs for our bodies, produce batteries as thin as paper, and make material which can remember what shape it's in (like Batman's cape), and what a...
Aug 07, 2013
Bud's Weekly Geek-out :: Realtime smartphone translation
Today on Bud's Weekly Geek-out . . . Google is prototyping translation software to allow your smartphone to become a realtime translator (Babel Fish, anyone?). You say something in English, and your c...
Jul 31, 2013
Bud's Weekly Geek-out :: Smartphone words
Today on Bud's Weekly Geek-out . . . which words, like selfie, did we not use, either in their current context, or at all, before the advent of smartphones? Here's a very small selection of those word...
Jul 24, 2013
Bud's Weekly Geek-out :: groopic
Today on Bud's Weekly Geek-out . . . groopic, an app which finally lets the photographer be in group shots. First, you use groopic to take a photo of your two friends, with a space on the right for yo...
Jul 17, 2013
Bud's Weekly Geek-out :: telescopic contact lenses
Today on Bud's Weekly Geek-out . . . the world's first telescopic contact lens has been developed, allowing you to see images at 2.8x their original size, using aluminum mirrors, polarized lenses, and...
Jul 10, 2013
Bud's Weekly Geek-out :: Preamp.fm
Today on Bud's Weekly Geek-out . . . Preamp.fm, a live music/local venue discovery engine which shows you who's playing around town by showing you their music videos.The catch: it's not available in V...
Jul 03, 2013
Bud's Weekly Geek-out :: ArcNote
Do you see a lot of PowerPoint slides or take a lot of classroom notes from a whiteboard? Then you want ArcNote, a handy dandy little Android/Windows Phone app which takes your photos of a presentatio...
Jun 26, 2013
Bud's Weekly Geek-out :: Google's Project Loon
Today on Bud's Weekly Geek-out . . . Project Loon is an idea from Google to provide internet access to folks in remote areas by using . . . balloons. Yes, solar-powered balloons in the stratosphere (t...
Jun 19, 2013
