http://kezanari.com/xerowire Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:40:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Consumer-advocate blog Consumerist is always looking to help you keep tabs on Big Brother and any of your personal information He's tracking. Toward that end, their comprehensive list of online background-checking tools is worth a look.Photo by Charline Tetiyevsky.Why would you want to run a background check on yourself? We've ... http://kezanari.com/xerowire/fresh-stuff/run-a-total-background-check-on-yourself-with-free-online-tools-privacy If you've been looking to get in on some of that red hot game development action that Palm's been all about lately, check it out: among the announcements at this year's GDC, Palm has announced the release of its public beta PDK for webOS. This bad boy promises to let ... http://kezanari.com/xerowire/fresh-stuff/palm-unleashes-webos-pdk-beta-on-the-public We know you've barely recovered from our Devour review, but Moto just threw another Blur-ified phone in our laps this afternoon - the CLIQ XT. We've been playing around with the Android 1.5-based, Flash Lite-supported, multitouch-capable handset for the last couple of hours -- but before we grace you with ... http://kezanari.com/xerowire/fresh-stuff/motorola-cliq-xt-hands-on Elgato's original EyeTV Hybrid USB tuner wasn't exactly oversized, but the company has nonetheless managed shrink things down a bit for the device's latest revision, and it's added some Windows 7 support for good measure. Most of the size reduction comes from ditching the analog connector found on the previous ... http://kezanari.com/xerowire/fresh-stuff/elgato-rolls-out-smaller-windows-7-supporting-eyetv-hybrid Are you a software dev with a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, familiarity with current Web standards, and experience with browser engines, Linux on embedded devices, and Java? If so, do we have the job for you. Lab126, the group at Amazon responsible for the Kindle, wants you to help ... http://kezanari.com/xerowire/fresh-stuff/is-amazon-hiring-devs-to-build-a-robust-web-browser-for-kindle Nathan Yau is a doctoral candidate in statistics, but the most valuable lessons he's learned in analyzing and working with data don't involve formal math. Here's how he suggests looking at lines, charts, and numbers to find interesting things.Photo by net_efekt.Yau lays out the skills and mindsets that have served ... http://kezanari.com/xerowire/fresh-stuff/look-at-data-like-a-statistician-minus-the-ph-d-statistics While Motorola's vanilla-Android Droid has become the most recognizable Android device on the market -- thanks in part to a bombastic ad campaign -- Motorola's primary focus has been on its own custom Blur UI. At least, if quantity of devices are any indication. Hitting Verizon just as the Blur-powered ... http://kezanari.com/xerowire/fresh-stuff/motorola-devour-review Social media gurus: We all know one. If you're lucky, you know only one.They are the attendees of tech parties, the "Twitter consultants," the armchair generals of the Internet, and their numbers grow by the day. Yet most of them couldn't distinguish a line of code from a badly punctuated ... http://kezanari.com/xerowire/fresh-stuff/open-thread-should-social-media-experts-be-required-to-know-their-tech Mark Hedrickson is 24 years old. He grew up in Menlo Park, California, down the street from Stanford, raised by a high-tech marketer Dad and a Mom in banking. Then he went to college and studied Nietzsche. He has now set out to build The Future - ... http://kezanari.com/xerowire/fresh-stuff/the-future-as-platform-mark-hendricksons-vision-for-plancast The Blackberry just doesn't seem to have the luster it once did. Today, it had another nationwide outage.According to Data Outage News:"A number of users are reporting and an escalated RIM tech support call has confirmed data issues affecting WiFi devices NOT connected to a WiFi network. The outage is ... http://kezanari.com/xerowire/fresh-stuff/another-nationwide-outage-for-the-blackberry