Philippe Matthews Show Guru Advice, Author Reviews, Tech Reviews, Entertainment News

Tweets are now worth a thousand words. As expected, Twitter announced today that they're adding photos to their core feature set. Users will now be able to attach photos directly to their tweets from within Twitter.com (and soon from the company's mobile apps as well), rather than having to use an outside service

A short discussion with the man behind Hotspot Shield about web anonymizers, the Arab Spring, and why expats in Dubai aren't happy with firewalls. Fast Company recently had the opportunity to speak with David Gorodyansky, CEO of AnchorFree , on the use of his company's popular Hotspot Shield software during the Arab Spring. Although Hotspot Shield is best known as a product used to access services such as Hulu and the BBC iPlayer across national borders, it also played a crucial role in organizing uprisings in Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya.

An Apple patent gives us some clues about the cloud-based iTunes we're all expecting any moment now--namely, how it'll make streaming content a seamless experience.

A survey from PBS has revealed something pretty staggering for a $500-plus next-gen computing device: 70% of parents are happy to hand the iPad to their kids, and download child-friendly apps for the rugrats. A new PBS survey has 70% of parents reporting that they allow their kids to use their iPad

%excerpt% Excerpt from: Faxing Without Paper

A tour through Thomas Edison's famed workshop, plus Apple's bid to convert speech to text, and the rest of today's news.

The social network’s small new feature could have a big impact. Yesterday Facebook rolled out a seemingly minor enhancement to their Photos feature.

As Microsoft's Bing increasingly focuses on enabling search to "help you complete tasks," rather than simply "find stuff," Skype could become an important part of the user experience. We’ve written before about how Bing is trying to turn search into an app.

The CrowdOptic app for iPhone overlays statistics in real-time, enhancing performers, players, and songs. Imagine watching a basketball game and seeing all of the vital statistics surround your favorite player without taking your eye off the game. CrowdOptic aims to visually enhance the event experience through a heads-up display on an iPhone .

Have you ever had the experience of buying a deal from Groupon or LivingSocial, getting to the merchant (a restaurant, let's say), and awkwardly giving the server a crumpled piece of paper to prove that you deserve $20 worth of food for just $10?

The more you talk on your cell phone, the faster your battery runs down - right? Imagine talking into your mobile device with the opposite effect - charging the battery! An engineer in South Korea, Dr. Sang-Woo Kim of Sungkyunkwon University, has developed new technology that converts the noise into electricity.

It's perhaps the most convincing clue yet that Apple may be coming out with an iPhone 5 "Lite": Older iPhone 3GSs and iPad 1s are outselling individual competing units from Android handset makers.

Here's the first interactive word cloud we've seen that captures the sense of the Internet as a living, breathing thing. They first caught our attention last week, during the royal wedding--which is saying something. "How does Twitter see the Royal Wedding?" asked The Guardian over at its data blog, and it answered the question with an interactive image featuring most-used words on Twitter--Kate, William, watching, moment, and so on

For some businesses, social impact can be measured by the size of the checks they write. For others, the mission is woven directly into the business. The Classic Example Founded in 1988, Seventh Generation started as a mail-order company for green household products

Whenever you surf the Web , websites use small bits of code called "cookies" to track your activity. The goal is to determine your interests and concerns and display ads calculated to appeal specifically to you. The downside is that advertisers know which sites you have visited; some even track your online purchases.