TechAirlines: Technology Tips

Remember the Google Countdown to 2010 post?  For those of you that do not recall, clicking the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button on the Google homepage led to a countdown in seconds to the new year.  Well now that 1/1 is here and past, what happened to the countdown? The answer is this: An animated fireworks display from Google! Again, wishing you all a Happy New Year!  Read More →

Have you ever come home, then realize you left your graphing calculator at school? Maybe you’ve felt too lazy to bring your calculator home because of their greater-than-usual weight as graphing calculators. Graphmatica is a “trial” software product that can do most of the things graphing calculators can do, with a few added extras. Download the “trial” download from... 

Google Chrome 4 Beta was released somewhere around a week ago. Here’s a roundup of the beta for those of you who have not heard of it yet. On the outside, Chrome 4 Beta looks the same as Chrome 3, and feels the same. The only noticeable difference is the new “sync bookmarks” option, and a few “unofficial” extensions for Chrome, such as WOT. Below is a screenshot of... 

Have a safe and fun Halloween 2009! Tech Airlines is celebrating with our new Halloween theme!  Read More →

Today, I handily grabbed myself the Ubuntu 9.10 stable release, which was released today, exactly a week after Microsoft’s Windows 7 launch.  The Ubuntu servers were downloading at a very slow rate, but the bittorrent version was much faster.  Most of us probably don’t have a hold on Ubuntu 9.10 yet, but here’s a beginning preview of the 9.10 install process and some pretty pictures.  Read More →

Remember that old site owned by Yahoo that allowed for amateur users to create their own pages? Many of us may have played around with it when we were younger, creating our first little web pages.  Yahoo bought Geocities in 1999 for approximately 3 billion dollars, and has now shut its Geocities site down on October 26th.  Today, Geocities is not worth that much for new web interests, being overtaken... 

Windows 7 was officially released to the general public a few days ago on October 22nd. There’s no doubt that many of us have gotten our hands on a copy, or that many of us have seen many screenshots of this new operating system, but here is an article for those who haven’t.  Read More →

Have you ever found a wallpaper you really liked, but it had a smaller resolution than your computer screen? TinEye is a reverse image search engine. Well you ask, what in the world does that mean? You can input an image into TinEye, tiny or large, and then search for other images that are similar to the one you inputted. This allows for search of larger resolution images, and even search of wallpapers...