Today, life is interactive from the time we are born. How has social media changed our behavior? What if people spoke in Twitter updates? What if we reprinted embarrassing pictures of each other and handed them out to thousands of strangers? Or to co-workers? Social networks have fundamentally changed the way we socialize, so Connected users are increasingly looking for ways to marry their virtual experiences with their real ones. Platforms like foursquare bring the online space into our everyday lives....

Call it a song for our digital times. Anyone who’s worked on an old office computer can identify with the frustration of trying to convert documents and images from different file formats. But rather than get cranky about it, Israeli bandUmlalawrote a song in tribute to a common frustration, ‘My Pdf Files.’ The song starts off “My world is a document. I can put it in a disco,” and continues, “Digital camera picture my grief....

Apple has announced itsSiri Virtual Assistant integrationinto iOS5. With the sound of your voice, you can ask Siri a number of questions and get answers quickly. Siri won’t help with everything though, and is computer driven. Have you ever been in a bind and really needed some help doing research for a paper or presentation? Hiring your own personal assistant can be quite pricey. Fancy Handsis another service in the personal assistance space, and it’s dead simple to use, and the results you get back are solid....

TLDR:The All-Star Mac Bundle Ft. Parallels Pro assembles five must-have Mac apps for improving your computer’s security, efficiency, productivity, and more, all at a season low price. A computer is like your home. You usually buy it when it’s stripped pretty bare, then you spend years and years building it up and building it up. Before you know it, your home becomes your castle, filled with treasures, impregnable defenses, and time-honed operations that have your place running like a Swiss watch....

TLDR:All three of Soundbrenner’s smartwatches are tailored especially for musicians, designed to keep the music powering forward. We’re in an age of specialization, so it’s no wonder that even our coolest tech innovations are now being rethought and reengineered to better suit the needs of a variety of niche customer segments. First, there were drones. Now, there are drones forreal estate and construction, drones foragriculture uses, and even drones forHollywood filmmakers....