BrokenClaw | October 8, 2007
The Global Positioning System, abbreviated and more commonly known as GPS, is a tracking system that allows a GPS device on earth, called a receiver, to determine its precise location by measuring microwave signals from orbiting satellites. Since it uses extremely accurate clocks and makes this determination essentially instantaneously, it can use a series of [...]
BrokenClaw | September 2, 2007
Okay, so there are thousands of websites and blog posts which discuss, or argue, the rivalry between Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh computers. The problem with all of these arguments is that there is no point of argument. By that I don’t mean that there is no purpose (point) in arguing, but rather that there [...]
BrokenClaw | August 23, 2007
User-generated content is all the rage on the Internet. Sites like YouTube, Flickr, Wikipedia, and Digg.com have been highlighted in mainstream media, so a lot of people have at least heard those names, even if they’ve never visited the sites or understand how they work. These four sites in particular, and probably hundreds of others, [...]
BrokenClaw | August 19, 2007
Social websites are popping up everywhere… Friendster, MySpace, Facebook, Bebo, Twitter, Jaiku, Pownce, Flickr… the list goes on and on. The idea is that you create virtual groups of friends so you can share everything online and keep each other informed. You can share news, photos, music, links, or you can just tell everyone where [...]
BrokenClaw | April 3, 2006
BrokenClaw has been up and running since 1998. We started as an ad-sponsored homepage on xoom.com, which at the time was similar to Yahoo’s Geocities. Soon thereafter we switched to our ISP supported homepage — one of those /~user websites. [Note: As of 2012, none of these personal homepages are still viable, as everyone who [...]